Title: Federally Funded Research and Technology Development Protection Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Federally Funded Research and Technology Development Protection Act
This bill addresses issues of transparency and accountability in federal grant-making to safeguard federally funded research and technology development.
Specifically, the Office of Management and Budget must (1) require that any agency that makes a federal grant maintains compliance operations to guard against malign foreign talent recruitment programs, and (2) prescribe standardized disclosure and accountability measures to support such operations.
Malign foreign talent recruitment is defined as an effort organized, managed, or funded by a foreign government to recruit any individual or public or private entity engaged in research funded by a federal agency to share information with, or otherwise act on behalf of, such government.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4465 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4465

    To enhance transparency and accountability measures in Federal 
   grantmaking to safeguard federally funded research and technology 
                  development, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2021

  Mr. Lynch (for himself and Ms. Foxx) introduced the following bill; 
      which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
    To enhance transparency and accountability measures in Federal 
   grantmaking to safeguard federally funded research and technology 
                  development, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Federally Funded Research and 
Technology Development Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. ENHANCED SAFEGUARDS AGAINST FOREIGN PROCUREMENT OF FEDERALLY 
              FUNDED RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT.

    (a) Enhanced Review Required.--Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget shall--
            (1) require that any agency that makes a Federal grant 
        maintains compliance operations to guard against malign foreign 
        talent recruitment programs; and
            (2) prescribe standardized disclosure and accountability 
        measures to support such compliance operations.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Agency.--The term ``agency'' has the meaning given that 
        term in section 551 of title 5, United States Code.
            (2) Malign foreign talent recruitment program.--The term 
        ``malign foreign talent recruitment program'' means an effort 
        directly or indirectly organized, managed, or funded by a 
        foreign government to recruit any individual or public or 
        private entity (regardless of citizenship, national origin, or 
        primary headquarters) engaged in research funded directly or 
        indirectly by a Federal agency to share information with, or 
        otherwise act on behalf of, such foreign government.
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