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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 551 
To direct the Attorney General to report to Congress on how United States 
taxpayer-funded research has benefitted China, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 26, 2023 
Mr. GOOD of Virginia (for himself, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. DUN-
CAN, Mrs. MILLER of Illinois, Mr. BIGGS, and Mr. GAETZ) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, 
and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
committee concerned 
A BILL 
To direct the Attorney General to report to Congress on 
how United States taxpayer-funded research has bene-
fitted China, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Taxpayer Funding 
for the Chinese Communist Party Act of 2023’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) United States taxpayer-funded research 
should not be used to benefit the People’s Republic 
of China, especially as China undertakes the largest 
theft of intellectual property in history, as was stat-
ed by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. 
(2) According to a Congressional Report, the 
Chinese Communist Party’s intellectual property 
theft costs the United States, and ultimately the 
American 
taxpayer, 
$225,000,000,000 
to 
$600,000,000,000 worth of intellectual property 
every year. 
(3) According to the Committee on Homeland 
Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, 
there were more than 35,000 foreign nationals in-
cluding 10,000 from China conducting research in 
the Department of Energy’s National Labs. 
(4) According to the Department of Education 
‘‘one university received research funding from a 
Chinese multinational conglomerate to develop new 
algorithms and advanced biometric security tech-
niques for crowd surveillance capabilities,’’ while an-
other ‘‘had multiple contracts with the Central Com-
mittee of the Communist Party of China’’. 
(5) The Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate found in a No-
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vember 2019 report that ‘‘American taxpayer funded 
research has contributed to China’s global rise over 
the last 20 years’’. 
(6) The Federal Bureau of Investigation has 
found that China’s government has used some stu-
dents and professors in science, technology, engi-
neering, and math (STEM) fields as nontraditional 
collectors of intellectual property, but has also noted 
that ‘‘the vast majority of the 1.4 million inter-
national scholars on U.S. campuses pose no threat 
to their host institutions, fellow classmates, or re-
search fields. On the contrary, these international 
visitors represent valuable contributors to their cam-
puses’ achievements, providing financial benefits, di-
versity of ideas, sought expertise, and opportunities 
for cross-cultural exchange’’. 
(7) In 2021, the Department of Justice an-
nounced that four Chinese nationals were charged 
with an operation to hack into the computers of doz-
ens of companies, universities and government agen-
cies in the United States and other countries be-
tween 2011 and 2018. 
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SEC. 3. REPORT ON CHINA BENEFITTING FROM UNITED 
STATES TAXPAYER-FUNDED RESEARCH. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year after the 
date of enactment of the Act, the Attorney General, in 
consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Sec-
retary of Commerce, the Secretary of State, and the Direc-
tor of National Intelligence, shall submit to the Committee 
on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a report on the 
extent to which China has benefitted from United States 
taxpayer-funded research. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The report under subsection (a) 
shall include the following: 
(1) The extent to which United States tax-
payer-funded research has benefitted China, includ-
ing a list of United States Government-funded enti-
ties, such as research institutions, laboratories, and 
institutions of higher education, which have hired 
Chinese nationals or allowed Chinese nationals to 
conduct research, including an estimate in the num-
ber of nationals hired or involved in research 
projects. 
(2) A list of United States Government pro-
grams, grants, and other forms of research funding 
in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and 
math (STEM) fields that have directly or indirectly 
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cooperated or affiliated with research institutions in 
China or Chinese Communist Party entities. 
(3) The extent to which China’s funding of 
United States taxpayer-funded research institutions 
has benefitted China. 
(4) How the Government of China and the Chi-
nese Communist Party have used United States tax-
payer-funded research, including as part of China’s 
efforts to support ‘‘civil-military fusion’’ and human 
rights abuses. 
(c) DEFINITION.—In this Act, the term ‘‘United 
States taypayer-funded research’’ means research— 
(1) funded by a grant from the Federal Govern-
ment or a State government; or 
(2) conducted at an institution that receives 
funding from the Federal Government or a State 
government. 
Æ 
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