S.Amdt. 907

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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