[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 90 (Monday, May 24, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3353]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1938. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to 
establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the 
National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub 
program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, 
science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to 
establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place in subtitle A of title I of 
     division F, insert the following:

     SEC. 61__. ANNUAL REPORTING REGARDING GRANTEE TIES TO FOREIGN 
                   GOVERNMENTS.

       Title IV of the Public Health Service Act is amended by 
     inserting after section 403C (42 U.S.C. 283a-2) the 
     following:

     ``SEC. 403C-1. ANNUAL REPORTING REGARDING GRANTEE TIES TO 
                   FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS.

       ``(a) In General.--On an annual basis, the Director of NIH 
     shall submit to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
     and Pensions, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the 
     Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, and to the 
     Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on Foreign 
     Affairs, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 
     of the House of Representatives, a report on any ties to 
     foreign governments that researchers funded by grants from 
     the National Institutes of Health have and that are not 
     properly disclosed, vetted, and approved by the National 
     Institutes of Health, including the status of any ongoing 
     National Institutes of Health compliance reviews related to 
     such ties and any administrative actions taken to address 
     such concerns.
       ``(b) Requirement.--The Committees receiving the reports 
     under subsection (a) shall keep confidential, and shall not 
     release, any provision of such a report that is related to an 
     ongoing National Institutes of Health compliance review.''.
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