[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1736 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1736

    To provide for the establishment of a committee to identify and 
 coordinate international science and technology cooperation that can 
 strengthen the domestic science and technology enterprise and support 
                  United States foreign policy goals.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 26, 2009

  Mr. Baird (for himself, Mr. Ehlers, Mr. Lipinski, Ms. Eddie Bernice 
  Johnson of Texas, and Mr. Carnahan) introduced the following bill; 
     which was referred to the Committee on Science and Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide for the establishment of a committee to identify and 
 coordinate international science and technology cooperation that can 
 strengthen the domestic science and technology enterprise and support 
                  United States foreign policy goals.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``International Science and Technology 
Cooperation Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. COORDINATION OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
              PARTNERSHIPS.

    (a) Establishment.--The Director of the Office of Science and 
Technology Policy shall establish a committee under the National 
Science and Technology Council with the responsibility to identify and 
coordinate international science and technology cooperation that can 
strengthen the domestic science and technology enterprise and support 
United States foreign policy goals.
    (b) Responsibilities.--The committee established under subsection 
(a) shall--
            (1) plan and coordinate interagency international science 
        and technology cooperative research and training activities and 
        partnerships supported or managed by Federal agencies;
            (2) establish Federal priorities and policies for aligning, 
        as appropriate, international science and technology 
        cooperative research and training activities and partnerships 
        supported or managed by Federal agencies with the foreign 
        policy goals of the United States;
            (3) identify opportunities for new international science 
        and technology cooperative research and training partnerships 
        that advance both the science and technology and the foreign 
        policy priorities of the United States;
            (4) work with international science and technology 
        counterparts to establish international science and technology 
        cooperative research and training partnerships, as identified 
        under paragraph (3); and
            (5) establish, periodically update, and maintain an 
        inventory of all nonclassified international science and 
        technology cooperative research and training activities and 
        partnerships that involve an annual United States Federal 
        investment of at least $500,000 dollars.
    (c) Report to Congress.--The Director of the Office of Science and 
Technology Policy shall transmit a report annually to Congress at the 
time of the President's budget request describing the priorities and 
policies established under subsection (b)(2).
    (d) Publication of Inventory.--The Director of the Office of 
Science and Technology Policy shall publish the inventory required 
under subsection (b)(5) at least once every 5 years, beginning 1 year 
after the date of enactment of this Act.
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