S.Amdt. 714

SA 714. Mr. MARSHALL 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, insert the following:

SEC. __. STOP FUNDING OUR ADVERSARIES.

(a) Purposes.--The purposes of this section are--
(1) to ensure that Federal funding does not support any
research in China; and
(2) to combat the military-civilian fusion policy of the
People's Republic of China.
(b) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Chinese communist party.--The term ``Chinese Communist
Party'' includes any agent or instrumentality of the Chinese
Communist Party and any entity owned by or controlled by the
Chinese Communist Party.
(2) Federal agency.--
(A) In general.--The term ``Federal agency'' has the
meaning given the term in section 102 of the Robert T.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 5122) .
(B) Inclusions.--The term ``Federal agency'' includes the
Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs,
the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection
Agency, the Department of the Interior, the Department of
Transportation, the Department of Health and Human Services,
the Department of Agriculture, the United States Agency for
International Development, the National Science Foundation,
and the Smithsonian Institution.
(3) Federal funding.--The term ``Federal funding''--
(A) means any grant, subgrant, contract, cooperative
agreement, and any other method through which the Federal
Government provides funding to a recipient; and
(B) includes a method through which the Federal Government
provides funding to a subrecipient at any tier.
(4) Government of the people's republic of china.--The term
``Government of the People's Republic of China'' includes--
(A) any agent or instrumentality of the Government of the
People's Republic of China;
(B) any entity owned by or controlled by the People's
Republic of China; and
(C) any organization managed by the Government of the
People's Republic of China, the People's Liberation Army
Ground Force of China, and any public institution of higher
learning in China.
(c) Prohibition on Funding Research in China.--The head of
a Federal agency may not directly or indirectly support,
through any Federal funding, research that will be conducted
by the Government of the People's Republic of China or the
Chinese Communist Party.
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