[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 90 (Monday, May 24, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3371]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1964. Mr. COTTON 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 end of title III of division B, add the following:

     SEC. 2309. PROHIBITION AGAINST NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 
                   FUNDING FOR FOREIGN ENTITIES OF CONCERN.

       (a) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Covered nation.--The term ``covered nation'' has the 
     meaning given the term in section 2533c(d) of title 10, 
     United States Code.
       (2) Foreign entity of concern.--The term ``foreign entity 
     of concern'' has the meaning given the term in section 
     2307(a)(1).
       (b) Ineligibility for National Science Foundation 
     Funding.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Director of the National Science Foundation may not issue an 
     award to--
       (1) a foreign entity of concern; or
       (2) an applicant operating on behalf of a foreign entity of 
     concern.
       (c) Rule of Construction.--For the purposes of subsection 
     (b), nothing in section 2307(a)(1)(C) may be construed to 
     prohibit a United States company or a company of an allied 
     nation that maintains a subsidiary operation in a covered 
     nation or a United States university that maintains a branch 
     campus in a covered nation from receiving National Science 
     Foundation funds at United States locations strictly because 
     of the existence of such subsidiary operation or branch 
     campus.
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