[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 123 (Tuesday, July 18, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3083-S3084]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 907. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title XII, insert the 
     following:

     SECTION 12__. ESTABLISHMENT OF UNITED STATES-ISRAEL 
                   ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER.

       (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``United 
     States-Israel Artificial Intelligence Center Act''.
       (b) Defined Term.--In this section, the term ``foreign 
     country of concern'' means--
       (1) the People's Republic of China;
       (2) the Democratic People's Republic of Korea;
       (3) the Russian Federation;
       (4) the Islamic Republic of Iran; and
       (5) any other country that the Secretary of State 
     determines to be a country of concern.
       (c) In General.--The Secretary of State, in consultation 
     with the Secretary of Commerce and the heads of other 
     relevant Federal agencies, shall establish the United States-
     Israel Artificial Intelligence Center (referred to in this 
     section as the ``Center'') in the United States.
       (d) Purposes.--The purposes of the Center shall be to 
     leverage the experience, knowledge, and expertise of 
     institutions of higher education and private sector entities 
     in the United States and Israel to develop more robust 
     commercially relevant technology development cooperation in 
     the areas of--
       (1) machine learning;
       (2) image classification;
       (3) object detection;
       (4) speech recognition;
       (5) natural language processing;
       (6) data labeling;
       (7) computer vision; and
       (8) model explainability and interpretability.
       (e) Artificial Intelligence Principles.--In carrying out 
     the purposes set forth in subsection (d), the Center shall 
     adhere to the principles for the use of artificial 
     intelligence in the Federal Government set forth in section 3 
     of Executive Order 13960 (85 Fed. Reg. 78939; relating to 
     promoting the use of trustworthy artificial intelligence in 
     Government), including to ``design, develop, acquire, and use 
     AI in a manner that exhibits due respect for our Nation's 
     values and is consistent with the Constitution and all other 
     applicable laws and policies, including those addressing 
     privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties''.
       (f) International Partnerships.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of State and the heads of 
     other relevant Federal agencies, subject to the availability 
     of appropriations, may enter into cooperative agreements 
     supporting and enhancing dialogue and planning involving 
     international partnerships between the Department of State or 
     such other agencies and the Government of Israel and its 
     ministries, offices, and institutions.
       (2) Federal share.--Not more than 50 percent of the costs 
     of implementing the agreements entered into pursuant to 
     paragraph (1) may be paid by the United States Government.
       (g) Multilateral Partnership.--Not later than 1 year after 
     establishing the Center pursuant to this section, the 
     Secretary of State, in consultation with relevant Federal 
     agencies, shall submit a report to Congress that describes 
     opportunities for expanding the participation in the Center 
     to include other United States partners and allies.
       (h) Limitations.--All of the following individuals and 
     entities are prohibited from investing in, partnering with, 
     or receiving or participating in, any grant, award, contract, 
     program, support, benefit or other activity of the Center:
       (1) Any individual or entity on the list under section 
     1237(b) of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization 
     Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law 105-261; 50 U.S.C. 1701 
     note).
       (2) Any entity identified under section 1260h of the 
     William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization 
     Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283; 10 U.S.C. 113 
     note).
       (3) Any academic institution on the list developed under 
     section 1286(c)(8) of the John S. McCain National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115-232; 
     10 U.S.C. 4001 note) and any participants in a foreign talent 
     recruitment program on the list developed under section 
     1286(c)(9) of such Act.
       (4) Any malign foreign talent recruitment program (as 
     defined under section 10638 of the CHIPS and Science Act of 
     2022 (Public Law 117-167).
       (5) Any entity owned by, controlled by, or subject to the 
     direction of with the Chinese Communist Party or the People's 
     Republic of China, or in which the government of a foreign 
     country of concern has an ownership interest.
       (6) Any entity on the Entity List that is maintained by the 
     Bureau of Industry and Security of the Department of Commerce 
     and set forth in Supplement No. 4 to part 744 of the Export 
     Administration Regulations.
       (i) Applicability of Export Controls to Center.--All 
     activities of the Center, including the development, 
     production, or use of goods, technology, software, knowledge, 
     or source code, are subject to the Export Control Reform Act 
     of 2018 (50 U.S.C. 4801 et seq.), the Export Administration 
     Regulations (as defined in subsection (h)(3)(B)), the 
     licensing policy described in subsection (j), the Arms Export 
     Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.), and any other 
     applicable Federal laws relating to export controls.
       (j) Denial of Export Licenses for United States Arms 
     Embargoed Countries.--

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       (1) In general.--The Secretary of Commerce shall deny a 
     license for the export (including deemed export), reexport, 
     or in-country transfer of any item subject to the Export 
     Administration Regulations to or in a country listed in 
     Country Group D:5 in Supplement No. 1 to part 740 of the 
     Export Administration Regulations.
       (2) Monthly congressional notification.--Not less 
     frequently than every 30 days, the Under Secretary of 
     Commerce for Industry and Security shall notify the 
     appropriate congressional committees of all applications for 
     licenses described in paragraph (1) that were submitted 
     during the 30-day period preceding the notification.
       (3) Definitions.--In this subsection:
       (A) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
       (i) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate;
       (ii) the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate;
       (iii) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
     Representatives; and
       (iv) the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
     House of Representatives.
       (B) Export; export administration regulations; in-country 
     transfer; item; reexport.--The terms ``export'', ``Export 
     Administration Regulations'', ``in-country transfer'', 
     ``item'', and ``reexport'' have the meanings given such terms 
     in section 1742 of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (50 
     U.S.C. 4801).
       (C) Subject to the export administration regulations.--The 
     term ``subject to the Export Administration Regulations'', 
     with respect to an item, has the meaning given the term 
     ``subject to the EAR'' in section 734.3 of the Export 
     Administration Regulations.
       (k) Classification.--All activities of the Center shall not 
     be considered fundamental research, open source, or 
     standards-related activities.
       (l) Counterintelligence Screening.--Not later than 180 days 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act, and not later 
     than each December 31 thereafter, Director of National 
     Intelligence, in collaboration with the Director of the 
     National Counterintelligence and Security Center and the 
     Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall--
       (1) assess--
       (A) whether the Center or its participant institutions pose 
     a counterintelligence threat to the United States;
       (B) what specific measures the Center has implemented to 
     ensure that intellectual property developed with the 
     assistance of the Center has sufficient protections in place 
     to ensure adherence to the principles described in subsection 
     (e) in the use of United States intellectual property, 
     research and development, and innovation efforts; and
       (C) other threats from a foreign country of concern and 
     other entities; and
       (2) submit a report to Congress containing the results of 
     the assessment described in paragraph (1).
       (m) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated $10,000,000 for the Center for each of the 
     fiscal years 2024 through 2028.
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