[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2726 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2726

 To prohibit the use of funds for universities that provide support to 
         the People's Liberation Army, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 5, 2023

 Mr. Lankford introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the use of funds for universities that provide support to 
         the People's Liberation Army, 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 ``Countering Adversarial and Malicious 
Partnerships at Universities and Schools Act of 2023'' or the ``CAMPUS 
Act''.

SEC. 2. IDENTIFICATION OF ENTITIES ENGAGED IN MILITARY-CIVIL FUSION IN 
              THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

    (a) In General.--The Director of National Intelligence, in 
consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall identify each 
institution of higher education domiciled in the People's Republic of 
China that provides support to the People's Liberation Army, including 
any such institution involved in the implementation of the Military-
Civil Fusion strategy of the People's Republic of China or that 
participates in the defense industrial base of the People's Republic of 
China.
    (b) Submission of List to Congress.--Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the 
Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate 
committees of Congress a list of each entity identified under 
subsection (a).

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR ENTITIES ENGAGED IN MILITARY-
              CIVIL FUSION.

    None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made 
available for the Department of Defense for research, development, 
testing, and evaluation may be provided to an entity that maintains a 
contract with an institution identified under section 2.

SEC. 4. LIMITATION ON ELIGIBILITY OF FACILITIES TO HOST OR STORE 
              CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.

    The Director of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency 
may not determine that a facility of an entity is eligible to host or 
store a classified information unless the entity certifies to the 
Director that the entity does not have an active research partnership 
with an institution that is included in the list submitted under 
section 2(b).

SEC. 5. DENIAL OF VISAS TO INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN MILITARY-CIVIL 
              FUSION.

    The Secretary of State may deny the application for a visa for a 
nonimmigrant described in subparagraph (F) or (J) of section 101(a) of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)) who is a student 
or employee of an institution identified under section 2.

SEC. 6. LIMITATION ON USES OF FUNDS FOR K-12 EDUCATION.

    None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made 
available to the Department of Education for K-12 education by may be 
provided to an elementary of secondary school that maintains a contract 
with an entity domiciled in the People's Republic of China.

SEC. 7. PARTNERSHIP WITH TAIWAN.

    (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that the 
American Institute in Taiwan should take steps to strengthen and expand 
partnerships with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representatives 
Office in the United States to expand access to Mandarin language 
instruction and Chinese cultural programming for students in the United 
States, including K-12 schools and institutions of higher education.
    (b) Grant Authority.--The Secretary of Education is authorized to 
provide grants to K-12 schools and institutions of higher education to 
support access to Mandarin language instruction and Chinese cultural 
programming in the United States provided in partnership between the 
American Institute in Taiwan and Taipei Economic and Cultural 
Representatives Office in the United States, including programming 
under the United States-Taiwan Education Initiative.

SEC. 8. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR FEDERAL GRANTS WITH ENTITIES ON 
              THE ENTITY LIST.

    None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made 
available for research, development, testing, and evaluation may be 
provided to an entity that maintains a contract with an entity 
domiciled in the People's Republic of China that is identified on the 
list required under section 2(b) or listed on the Entity List 
maintained by the Bureau of Industry and Security at the Department of 
Commerce and set forth in Supplement No. 4 to part 744 of title 15, 
Code of Federal Regulations.

SEC. 9. DISCLOSURE OF FOREIGN GIFTS.

    Section 117(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1011f) is amended by striking ``$250,000'' and inserting ``$50,000''.

SEC. 10. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term 
        ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Select 
                Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Health, 
                Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate; and
                    (B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Permanent 
                Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on 
                Education and the Workforce of the House of 
                Representatives.
            (2) Institution of higher education.--The term 
        ``institution of higher education domiciled in the People's 
        Republic of China'' means an institution under the control or 
        supervision, in whole or in part, of--
                    (A) the Ministry of Education of the People's 
                Republic of China; or
                    (B) the State Administration of Science, 
                Technology, and Industry for National Defense of the 
                People's Republic of China.
            (3) K-12 schools.--The term ``K-12 education'' has the 
        meaning given the term in section 5002(10) of the National 
        Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 
        9401(10)).
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