S.Amdt. 1964

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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