Title: No Funds to China’s Military Act of 2020
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
No Funds to China's Military Act of 2020
This bill prohibits using federal funds to purchase goods or services from an individual or entity that the Department of Defense has determined is controlled by or affiliated with China's military or defense industrial base.
This prohibition applies to federal funds provided to a state or local government or private entity. Before an executive agency provides federal funds to such a government or private entity, the recipient shall certify that it will comply with this bill.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4256 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4256

    To prohibit the use of funds to purchase goods or services from 
                 Communist Chinese military companies.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 21, 2020

  Ms. McSally introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit the use of funds to purchase goods or services from 
                 Communist Chinese military companies.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Funds to China's Military Act of 
2020''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO PURCHASE GOODS OR SERVICES FROM 
              COMMUNIST CHINESE MILITARY COMPANIES.

    (a) In General.--None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or 
otherwise made available for fiscal year 2020 and available for 
obligation as of the date of the enactment of this Act, or authorized 
to be appropriated or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2021 or 
any fiscal year thereafter, may be obligated or expended to purchase 
goods or services from a person on the list required by section 1237(b) 
of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 1999 (Public Law 105-261; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note).
    (b) Application to Private Entities and State and Local 
Governments.--
            (1) In general.--The prohibition under subsection (a) 
        includes a prohibition on the obligation or expenditure of 
        funds described in that subsection for the purchase of goods or 
        services from persons described in that subsection by a private 
        entity or a State or local government that received such funds 
        through a grant or any other means.
            (2) Certification required to receive future funds.--On and 
        after the date of the enactment of this Act, the head of an 
        executive agency may not provide funds described in subsection 
        (a) to a private entity or a State or local government unless 
        the entity or government certifies that the entity or 
        government, as the case may be, is not purchasing goods or 
        services from a person described in subsection (a).
    (c) Executive Agency Defined.--In this section, the term 
``executive agency'' has the meaning given that term in section 133 of 
title 41, United States Code.
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