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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2778
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require additional disclosures
relating to gifts and contracts from foreign sources.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL9, 2025
Mrs. H
OUCHINintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Education and Workforce
A BILL
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require
additional disclosures relating to gifts and contracts from
foreign sources.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safeguarding Amer-4
ican Education From Foreign Control Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. DISCLOSURES OF FOREIGN GIFTS. 6
(a) A
DDITIONALDISCLOSURESREQUIRED.—Section 7
117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 8
1011f) is amended— 9
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(1) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol-1
lows: 2
‘‘(a) D
ISCLOSUREREPORT.— 3
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—Whenever any institution is 4
owned or controlled by a foreign source, or receives 5
a gift from or enters into a contract with a foreign 6
source that equals or exceeds the threshold value de-7
scribed in paragraph (2), the institution shall file a 8
disclosure report with the Secretary on January 31 9
or July 31, whichever is sooner. 10
‘‘(2) T
HRESHOLD VALUE .—For purposes of 11
subsection (a), the threshold value of a gift from or 12
contract from a foreign source is— 13
‘‘(A) in the case of a foreign source that 14
is not associated with a covered nation, 15
$250,000 or more, considered alone or in com-16
bination with all other gifts from or contracts 17
with that foreign source within a calendar year; 18
and 19
‘‘(B) in the case of a foreign source that 20
is associated with a covered nation, a gift or 21
contract of any value.’’; 22
(2) by redesignating subsections (d) through (h) 23
as subsections (e) through (i), respectively; 24
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(3) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol-1
lowing: 2
‘‘(d) A
DDITIONALSUBMISSIONS.—Not later than 10 3
days after receiving a disclosure report, document, or 4
other record from an institution under this section, the 5
Secretary shall transmit a copy of such report, document, 6
or record to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Inves-7
tigation and the Director of National Intelligence.’’; and 8
(4) in subsection (i), as so redesignated— 9
(A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) 10
through (5) as paragraphs (2) through (6); and 11
(B) by inserting before paragraph (2), as 12
so redesignated, the following new paragraph: 13
‘‘(1) the term ‘covered nation’ has the meaning 14
given that term in section 4872(f)(2) of title 10, 15
United States Code;’’. 16
(b) T
RANSMITTAL OFRECORDS TOFBI ANDDNI.— 17
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment 18
of this Act, the Secretary of Education shall transmit to 19
the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and 20
the Director of National Intelligence— 21
(1) any report, document, or other record re-22
ceived by the Department of Education under sec-23
tion 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 24
U.S.C. 1011f), regardless of the date on which the 25
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record was received or the status of the case to 1
which the record pertains; and 2
(2) any report, document, or other record gen-3
erated by the Department of Education in the 4
course of an investigation into the compliance of an 5
institution with such section. 6
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