Title: Securing Our Skies Against Chinese Technology Act of 2020
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Securing Our Skies Against Chinese Technology Act of 2020
This bill prohibits using federal funds to purchase a drone manufactured in China or by an entity controlled by the Chinese government. An executive agency may not provide funds to a private or state government entity unless the recipient certifies that it is not using such drones.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3836 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3836

  To prohibit the use of funds to purchase drones manufactured in the 
  People's Republic of China or by Chinese state-controlled entities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 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 drones manufactured in the 
  People's Republic of China or by Chinese state-controlled entities.

    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 ``Securing Our Skies Against Chinese 
Technology Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO PURCHASE DRONES MANUFACTURED IN 
              THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA OR BY CHINESE STATE-
              CONTROLLED ENTITIES.

    (a) In General.--No funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
for fiscal year 2020 and available for obligation as of the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and no funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available for fiscal year 2021 or any fiscal year thereafter, may be 
obligated or expended to purchase a drone described in subsection (b).
    (b) Drones Described.--A drone described in this subsection is a 
drone manufactured in the People's Republic of China or by an entity 
owned or controlled by the Government of the People's Republic of 
China.
    (c) 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 a drone 
        described in subsection (b) 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 using drones described 
        in subsection (b).
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Drone.--The term ``drone'' has the meaning given the 
        term ``unmanned aircraft'' in section 44801 of title 49, United 
        States Code.
            (2) Executive agency.--The term ``executive agency'' has 
        the meaning given that term in section 133 of title 41, United 
        States Code.
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