S.Amdt. 1938

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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