[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 551 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 551

  To direct the Attorney General to report to Congress on how United 
  States taxpayer-funded research has benefitted China, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 26, 2023

 Mr. Good of Virginia (for himself, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. 
 Duncan, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Biggs, and Mr. Gaetz) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, 
  Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
   each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Attorney General to report to Congress on how United 
  States taxpayer-funded research has benefitted 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 ``No Taxpayer Funding for the Chinese 
Communist Party Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) United States taxpayer-funded research should not be 
        used to benefit the People's Republic of China, especially as 
        China undertakes the largest theft of intellectual property in 
        history, as was stated by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.
            (2) According to a Congressional Report, the Chinese 
        Communist Party's intellectual property theft costs the United 
        States, and ultimately the American taxpayer, $225,000,000,000 
        to $600,000,000,000 worth of intellectual property every year.
            (3) According to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
        Governmental Affairs of the Senate, there were more than 35,000 
        foreign nationals including 10,000 from China conducting 
        research in the Department of Energy's National Labs.
            (4) According to the Department of Education ``one 
        university received research funding from a Chinese 
        multinational conglomerate to develop new algorithms and 
        advanced biometric security techniques for crowd surveillance 
        capabilities,'' while another ``had multiple contracts with the 
        Central Committee of the Communist Party of China''.
            (5) The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
        Affairs of the Senate found in a November 2019 report that 
        ``American taxpayer funded research has contributed to China's 
        global rise over the last 20 years''.
            (6) The Federal Bureau of Investigation has found that 
        China's government has used some students and professors in 
        science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields as 
        nontraditional collectors of intellectual property, but has 
        also noted that ``the vast majority of the 1.4 million 
        international scholars on U.S. campuses pose no threat to their 
        host institutions, fellow classmates, or research fields. On 
        the contrary, these international visitors represent valuable 
        contributors to their campuses' achievements, providing 
        financial benefits, diversity of ideas, sought expertise, and 
        opportunities for cross-cultural exchange''.
            (7) In 2021, the Department of Justice announced that four 
        Chinese nationals were charged with an operation to hack into 
        the computers of dozens of companies, universities and 
        government agencies in the United States and other countries 
        between 2011 and 2018.

SEC. 3. REPORT ON CHINA BENEFITTING FROM UNITED STATES TAXPAYER-FUNDED 
              RESEARCH.

    (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of 
enactment of the Act, the Attorney General, in consultation with the 
Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of 
State, and the Director of National Intelligence, shall submit to the 
Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a report on the extent to 
which China has benefitted from United States taxpayer-funded research.
    (b) Elements.--The report under subsection (a) shall include the 
following:
            (1) The extent to which United States taxpayer-funded 
        research has benefitted China, including a list of United 
        States Government-funded entities, such as research 
        institutions, laboratories, and institutions of higher 
        education, which have hired Chinese nationals or allowed 
        Chinese nationals to conduct research, including an estimate in 
        the number of nationals hired or involved in research projects.
            (2) A list of United States Government programs, grants, 
        and other forms of research funding in the fields of science, 
        technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields that have 
        directly or indirectly cooperated or affiliated with research 
        institutions in China or Chinese Communist Party entities.
            (3) The extent to which China's funding of United States 
        taxpayer-funded research institutions has benefitted China.
            (4) How the Government of China and the Chinese Communist 
        Party have used United States taxpayer-funded research, 
        including as part of China's efforts to support ``civil-
        military fusion'' and human rights abuses.
    (c) Definition.--In this Act, the term ``United States taypayer-
funded research'' means research--
            (1) funded by a grant from the Federal Government or a 
        State government; or
            (2) conducted at an institution that receives funding from 
        the Federal Government or a State government.
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