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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 769 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act |
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| 6 | 6 | | to clarify the definition of foreign country for purposes of malign foreign |
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| 7 | 7 | | talent recruitment restriction, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | FEBRUARY27, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. C |
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| 11 | 11 | | ORNYN(for himself and Mr. PADILLA) introduced the following bill; |
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| 12 | 12 | | which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, |
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| 13 | 13 | | Science, and Transportation |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To amend the Research and Development, Competition, and |
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| 16 | 16 | | Innovation Act to clarify the definition of foreign country |
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| 17 | 17 | | for purposes of malign foreign talent recruitment restric- |
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| 18 | 18 | | tion, and for other purposes. |
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| 19 | 19 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 20 | 20 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘United States Re-4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | search Protection Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 26 | 26 | | •S 769 IS |
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| 27 | 27 | | SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF DEFINITION OF FOREIGN COUN-1 |
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| 28 | 28 | | TRY FOR PURPOSES OF MALIGN FOREIGN 2 |
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| 29 | 29 | | TALENT RECRUITMENT RESTRICTION. 3 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Paragraph (4) of section 10638 of title VI of division 4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | B of the Research and Development, Competition, and In-5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | novation Act (42 U.S.C. 19237) is amended— 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (1) by inserting ‘‘of concern’’ after ‘‘foreign 7 |
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| 34 | 34 | | country’’ each place such term appears; 8 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (2) by striking ‘‘means—’’ and all that follows 9 |
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| 36 | 36 | | through ‘‘any program, position, or activity’’ and in-10 |
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| 37 | 37 | | serting ‘‘means any program, position, or activity’’; 11 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (3) by striking subparagraph (B); 12 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (4) by redesignating clauses (i) through (ix) as 13 |
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| 40 | 40 | | subparagraphs (A) through (I), respectively, and 14 |
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| 41 | 41 | | moving such subparagraphs, as so redesignated, two 15 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ems to the left; 16 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (5) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), 17 |
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| 44 | 44 | | as so redesignated, by striking ‘‘directly provided’’ 18 |
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| 45 | 45 | | and inserting ‘‘whether directly or indirectly pro-19 |
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| 46 | 46 | | vided’’; and 20 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (6) in subparagraph (I), as so redesignated, by 21 |
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| 48 | 48 | | striking ‘‘; and’’ and inserting a period. 22 |
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