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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 1010
To prohibit the use of funds for universities that provide support to the
People’s Liberation Army, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH12, 2025
Mr. L
ANKFORDintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
A BILL
To prohibit the use of funds for universities that provide
support to the People’s Liberation Army, and for other
purposes.
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 ‘‘Countering Adversarial 4
and Malicious Partnerships at Universities and Schools 5
Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘CAMPUS Act’’. 6
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SEC. 2. IDENTIFICATION OF ENTITIES ENGAGED IN MILI-1
TARY-CIVIL FUSION IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUB-2
LIC OF CHINA. 3
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Director of National Intel-4
ligence, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, 5
shall identify each institution of higher education domi-6
ciled in the People’s Republic of China that provides sup-7
port to the People’s Liberation Army, including any such 8
institution involved in the implementation of the Military- 9
Civil Fusion strategy of the People’s Republic of China 10
or that participates in the defense industrial base of the 11
People’s Republic of China. 12
(b) S
UBMISSION OFLIST TOCONGRESS.—Not later 13
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 14
and annually thereafter, the Director of National Intel-15
ligence shall submit to the appropriate committees of Con-16
gress a list of each entity identified under subsection (a). 17
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR ENTITIES EN-18
GAGED IN MILITARY-CIVIL FUSION. 19
None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or 20
otherwise made available for the Department of Defense 21
for research, development, testing, and evaluation may be 22
provided to an entity that maintains a contract with an 23
institution identified under section 2. 24
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SEC. 4. LIMITATION ON ELIGIBILITY OF FACILITIES TO 1
HOST OR STORE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION. 2
The Director of the Defense Counterintelligence and 3
Security Agency may not determine that a facility of an 4
entity is eligible to host or store a classified information 5
unless the entity certifies to the Director that the entity 6
does not have an active research partnership with an insti-7
tution that is included in the list submitted under section 8
2(b). 9
SEC. 5. DENIAL OF VISAS TO INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN 10
MILITARY-CIVIL FUSION. 11
The Secretary of State may deny the application for 12
a visa for a nonimmigrant described in subparagraph (F) 13
or (J) of section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nation-14
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)) who is a student or employee 15
of an institution identified under section 2. 16
SEC. 6. LIMITATION ON USES OF FUNDS FOR K-12 EDU-17
CATION. 18
None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or 19
otherwise made available to the Department of Education 20
for K–12 education by may be provided to an elementary 21
of secondary school that maintains a contract with an enti-22
ty domiciled in the People’s Republic of China. 23
SEC. 7. PARTNERSHIP WITH TAIWAN. 24
(a) S
ENSE OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-25
gress that the American Institute in Taiwan should take 26
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steps to strengthen and expand partnerships with the Tai-1
pei Economic and Cultural Representatives Office in the 2
United States to expand access to Mandarin language in-3
struction and Chinese cultural programming for students 4
in the United States, including K–12 schools and institu-5
tions of higher education. 6
(b) G
RANTAUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Edu-7
cation is authorized to provide grants to K–12 schools and 8
institutions of higher education to support access to Man-9
darin language instruction and Chinese cultural program-10
ming in the United States provided in partnership between 11
the American Institute in Taiwan and Taipei Economic 12
and Cultural Representatives Office in the United States, 13
including programming under the United States-Taiwan 14
Education Initiative. 15
SEC. 8. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR FEDERAL 16
GRANTS WITH ENTITIES ON THE ENTITY 17
LIST. 18
None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or 19
otherwise made available for research, development, test-20
ing, and evaluation may be provided to an entity that 21
maintains a contract with an entity domiciled in the Peo-22
ple’s Republic of China that is identified on the list re-23
quired under section 2(b) or listed on the Entity List 24
maintained by the Bureau of Industry and Security at the 25
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Department of Commerce and set forth in Supplement 1
No. 4 to part 744 of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations. 2
SEC. 9. DISCLOSURE OF FOREIGN GIFTS. 3
Section 117(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 4
(20 U.S.C. 1011f(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘$250,000’’ 5
and inserting ‘‘$50,000’’. 6
SEC. 10. DEFINITIONS. 7
In this Act: 8
(1) A
PPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON -9
GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-10
gress’’ means— 11
(A) the Committee on Armed Services, the 12
Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Com-13
mittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pen-14
sions of the Senate; and 15
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the 16
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 17
and the Committee on Education and the 18
Workforce of the House of Representatives. 19
(2) I
NSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION .—The 20
term ‘‘institution of higher education domiciled in 21
the People’s Republic of China’’ means an institu-22
tion under the control or supervision, in whole or in 23
part, of— 24
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(A) the Ministry of Education of the Peo-1
ple’s Republic of China; or 2
(B) the State Administration of Science, 3
Technology, and Industry for National Defense 4
of the People’s Republic of China. 5
(3) K–12
SCHOOLS.—The term ‘‘K–12 edu-6
cation’’ has the meaning given the term in section 7
5002(10) of the National Artificial Intelligence Ini-8
tiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 9401(10)). 9
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