3.0.0 577 2023-03-08T19:58:03Z 2023-03-08T19:58:03Z Senate S 2021-03-03 117 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2021-03-03T21:42:23Z Foreign Influence Transparency Act 117 1535 HR 2021-05-18 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. Identical bill CRS 2021-03-03 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2021-03-03 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress R000595 Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] Marco Rubio R FL N P000449 Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] Rob Portman R OH 2021-03-03 True C001095 Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] Tom Cotton R AR 2021-03-03 True H000601 Sen. Hagerty, Bill [R-TN] Bill Hagerty R TN 2021-03-03 True International Affairs Art, artists, authorship Asia China Congressional oversight Cultural exchanges and relations General science and technology matters Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Higher education International exchange and broadcasting International organizations and cooperation Performing arts Public participation and lobbying Religion Teaching, teachers, curricula International Affairs 00 2021-03-03 Introduced in Senate 2021-07-20T19:16:26Z Foreign Influence Transparency Act

This bill addresses foreign influence in higher education and in certain other academic, religious, and artistic pursuits.

Current law exempts from foreign agent registration requirements a person engaging in activities in furtherance of religious, scholastic, academic, or scientific pursuits or of the fine arts. The bill specifies that this exemption applies only to those activities that do not promote the political agenda of a foreign government.

Under current law, an institution of higher education (IHE) must disclose to the Department of Education (ED) a gift or contract that is from a foreign source and is valued at $250,000 or more, considered alone or in combination with all other gifts from or contracts with the foreign source. The bill instead requires an IHE to disclose such a gift or contract that is valued at $50,000 or more, considered alone or in combination with all other gifts or contracts. An IHE must include in its disclosure report the contents of any such contract and make the contents available for public disclosure.

Additionally, an IHE that enters into an agreement with a Confucius Institute (i.e., a cultural institute directly or indirectly funded by the Chinese government) must immediately make available the full text of the agreement to the public, ED, and Congress.

Finally, the bill prohibits an IHE that does not comply with these disclosure requirements from enrolling foreign students under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program.

]]> Foreign Influence Transparency Act Display Title Foreign Influence Transparency Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to limit the exemption from the registration requirements of such Act for persons engaging in activities in furtherance of bona fide religious, scholastic, academic, or scientific pursuits or the fine arts to activities which do not promote the political agenda of a foreign government, to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to clarify the disclosures of foreign gifts by institutions, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Foreign Influence Transparency Act Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s577is/xml/BILLS-117s577is.xml 2021-03-03 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.