[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1263 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1263

To limit Federal funding for institutions of higher education that have 
    partnerships with the People's Republic of China, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 23, 2021

  Ms. Stefanik (for herself, Mr. Good of Virginia, Mrs. McClain, Mr. 
Owens, and Mr. Banks) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To limit Federal funding for institutions of higher education that have 
    partnerships with the People's Republic of China, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``End College Chinese Communist 
Partnerships Act'' or the ``End College CCP Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been engaged in a 
        sustained effort to undermine all facets of American power 
        through influence campaigns within the United States;
            (2) the CCP has engaged in the theft of hundreds of 
        billions of dollars' worth of intellectual property and 
        academic and scientific research on college campuses, within 
        national labs and within the private sector;
            (3) the CCP has attempted to recruit Chinese Americans and 
        ethnic Chinese within the United States for intelligence 
        collection and coercion to advance the CCP ideology and agenda;
            (4) the hostile CCP ideology has gained a foothold in all 
        facets of our society, including in academia, business, 
        entertainment, and the media;
            (5) the CCP and its diplomats, through Confucius 
        Institutes, have monitored students on American campuses and 
        has forced its views upon our institutions of higher learning;
            (6) the CCP, through its propaganda efforts in academia, 
        has censored discussion on Tibet and Taiwan, and has repeatedly 
        interfered in campus-wide events;
            (7) CCP military officers have repeatedly used cover 
        identities, and other misleading tactics, to obscure the true 
        nature of their activities in the United States, including as 
        students studying at American universities; and
            (8) the CCP's talent recruitment plans, most notably the 
        Thousand Talents Plan, are designed to attract, recruit, and 
        cultivate overseas talent in furtherance of China's strategic 
        interests and reward individuals for stealing United States 
        intellectual property.

SEC. 3. RESTRICTIONS ON INSTITUTIONS PARTNERING WITH THE PEOPLE'S 
              REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

    (a) Funding Restricted.--An institution of higher education or 
other postsecondary educational institution shall not be eligible to 
receive Federal funds (except funds under title IV of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.) or other Department of 
Education funds that are provided directly to students) if such 
institution has a contractual partnership in effect with an entity that 
is--
            (1) owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the 
        Government of the People's Republic of China; or
            (2) organized under the laws of the People's Republic of 
        China.
    (b) Restoring Eligibility.--An institution ineligible to receive 
Federal funds under subsection (a) may reestablish eligibility by--
            (1) disclosing to the Secretary of Education all 
        contractual partnerships with an entity described in subsection 
        (a) from the previous 10 years; and
            (2) providing to the Secretary of Education sufficient 
        evidence that such partnerships have been terminated.
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