Protecting Higher Education from Foreign Threats Act

Bill: 119-hr-455
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Steube, W. Gregory [R-FL-17]
Introduced: 2025-01-15
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Asia

China

Education programs funding

Higher education

Teaching, teachers, curricula
Latest action: action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-01-15
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Protecting Higher Education from Foreign Threats Act</strong></p> <p>This bill prohibits an institution of higher education (IHE) from receiving federal funds for an award year in which the IHE employs an instructor who, while employed at the IHE and providing direct instruction to students, received funds from the Chinese Community Party. An IHE may regain eligibility for federal funds by demonstrating to the Department of Education that it no longer employs such instructor.</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 455 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 15, 2025 Mr. Steube introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce A BILL To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit the awarding of Federal funds to institutions of higher education that employ instructors funded by the Chinese Communist Party, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting Higher Education from Foreign Threats Act . 2. Prohibition on employment of instructors funded by the Chinese Communist Party Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq. ) is amended by inserting after section 117 the following: 117a. Prohibition on employment of instructors funded by the Chinese Communist Party (a) Restriction on eligibility Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no institution of higher education shall be eligible to receive funds or any other form of financial assistance under any Federal program for an award year in which the institution employs an CCP-funded instructor. (b) Resumption of eligibility An institution of higher education that loses eligibility to receive funds for an award year as described in subsection (a) may regain eligibility to receive such funds in a subsequent award year by demonstrating, to the satisfaction of the Secretary, that the institution no longer employs a CCP-funded instructor. (c) CCP-Funded instructor defined In this section, the term CCP-funded instructor means a professor, teacher, or any other individual who— (1) provides instruction directly to the students of an institution of higher education; and (2) received funds, directly or indirectly, from the Chinese Communist Party while employed by such institution. . 3. Effective date The amendment made by section 2 shall take effect 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.