To prohibit malign foreign talent recruitment programs, and for other purposes.

2021-09-14

Introduced in House

This bill requires each federal research agency with an annual extramural research expenditure of over $100 million to establish a requirement that, as part of a proposal for a research and development award from such agency

each covered individual listed in the proposal certify that they are not a party to a malign foreign talent recruitment program from a foreign country of concern, such as China or Russia, in their proposal submission and annually afterwards for the duration of the award; and
each institution of higher education or other organization applying for such an award certify that each covered individual who is employed by the institution of higher education or other organization has been made aware of this requirement.

A covered individual means an individual who

contributes in a substantive, meaningful way to the scientific development or execution of a proposed research and development project; and
is designated as a covered individual by the federal research agency.

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