IIB 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1736 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE 9, 2009 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation 
AN ACT 
To provide for the establishment of a committee to identify 
and coordinate international science and technology co-
operation that can strengthen the domestic science and 
technology enterprise and support United States foreign 
policy goals. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘International Science 
and Technology Cooperation Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. COORDINATION OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND 
TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director of the Office of 
Science and Technology Policy shall establish a committee 
under the National Science and Technology Council with 
the responsibility to identify and coordinate international 
science and technology cooperation that can strengthen 
the United States science and technology enterprise, im-
prove economic and national security, and support United 
States foreign policy goals. 
(b) COMMITTEE LEADERSHIP.—The committee es-
tablished under subsection (a) shall be co-chaired by sen-
ior level officials from the Office of Science and Tech-
nology Policy and the Department of State. 
(c) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The committee established 
under subsection (a) shall— 
(1) plan and coordinate interagency inter-
national science and technology cooperative research 
and training activities and partnerships supported or 
managed by Federal agencies and work with other 
National Science and Technology Council commit-
tees to help plan and coordinate the international 
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component of national science and technology prior-
ities; 
(2) establish Federal priorities and policies for 
aligning, as appropriate, international science and 
technology cooperative research and training activi-
ties and partnerships supported or managed by Fed-
eral agencies with the foreign policy goals of the 
United States; 
(3) identify opportunities for new international 
science and technology cooperative research and 
training partnerships that advance both the science 
and technology and the foreign policy priorities of 
the United States; 
(4) in carrying out paragraph (3), solicit input 
and recommendations from non-Federal science and 
technology stakeholders, including universities, sci-
entific and professional societies, industry, and rel-
evant organizations and institutions, through work-
shops and other appropriate venues; 
(5) work with international science and tech-
nology counterparts, both non-governmental and 
governmental (in coordination with the Department 
of State), to establish and maintain international 
science and technology cooperative research and 
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training partnerships, as identified under paragraph 
(3); and 
(6) address broad issues that influence the abil-
ity of United States scientists and engineers to col-
laborate with foreign counterparts, including bar-
riers to collaboration and access to scientific infor-
mation. 
(d) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Director of the Of-
fice of Science and Technology Policy shall transmit a re-
port annually to Congress at the time of the President’s 
budget request containing a description of the priorities 
and policies established under subsection (c)(2), the ongo-
ing and new partnerships established in the previous fiscal 
year, and how stakeholder input, as required under sub-
section (c)(4), was received. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 8, 2009. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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