No Federal Funding for CCP Spying and Persuasion In Education Settings (SPIES) Act of 2023

No Federal Funding for CCP Spying and Persuasion In Education Settings (SPIES) Act of 2023

This bill generally prohibits an institution of higher education (IHE) that hosts a Confucius Institute from receiving funding from the Department of Defense (DOD). A Confucius Institute is a cultural institute directly or indirectly funded by the Chinese government.

Currently, a U.S. IHE that hosts a Confucius Institute is prohibited from receiving DOD funds (except for funds provided directly to students as educational assistance) unless that IHE receives a waiver from DOD. This bill removes DOD's waiver authority.

The bill also applies the general prohibition to international IHEs.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3889 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3889

To expand the prohibition on funding for international institutions of 
    higher education that host Confucius Institutes and remove the 
                  authority to waive the prohibition.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 7, 2023

Mr. Banks (for himself, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. Wittman, Mr. Waltz, and Mr. 
   Lamborn) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To expand the prohibition on funding for international institutions of 
    higher education that host Confucius Institutes and remove the 
                  authority to waive the prohibition.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Federal Funding for CCP Spying 
and Persuasion In Education Settings (SPIES) Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER 
              EDUCATION THAT HOST CONFUCIUS INSTITUTES AND REMOVAL OF 
              WAIVER AUTHORITY.

    Section 1062 of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283; 10 U.S.C. 
2241 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``Except as provided in subsection 
                (b), none'' and inserting ``None''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``or international institution of 
                higher education'' after ``institution of higher 
                education'';
            (2) by striking subsection (b); and
            (3) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections 
        (b) and (c), respectively.
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