Hearing Information
Amendment Deadline
Thursday, November 30, 2023 - 3:00pm View Announcement »
Meeting Information
Monday, December 4, 2023 - 4:00pm H-313, The Capitol View Announcement »
Thursday, November 30, 2023 - 3:00pm View Announcement »
Monday, December 4, 2023 - 4:00pm H-313, The Capitol View Announcement »
COMMITTEE ACTION:
REPORTED BY A RECORD VOTE of 9-4 on Monday, December 4, 2023.
FLOOR ACTION ON H. RES. 906:
Agreed to by a record vote of 213-201, after agreeing to the previous question by a record vote of 209-200 on Tuesday, December 5, 2023.
MANAGERS: Houchin/McGovern
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Structured rule for H.R. 4468. |
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Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. |
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Provides that the bill shall be considered as read. |
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Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill. |
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Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce or their respective designees. |
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Makes in order only the amendment printed in part A of the Rules Committee report accompanying the resolution. Each amendment shall be considered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question. |
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Waives all points of order against the amendment printed in Part A of the Rules Committee report. |
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Provides one motion to recommit. |
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Structured rule for H.R. 5933. |
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Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. |
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Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce or their respective designees. |
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Provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Education and the Workforce now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. |
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Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended. |
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Makes in order only those amendments printed in part B of the Rules Committee report accompanying the resolution. Each amendment shall be considered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question. |
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Waives all points of order against the amendments printed in part B of the Rules Committee report. |
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Provides one motion to recommit. |
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Closed rule for H.J. Res. 88. |
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Waives all points of order against consideration of the joint resolution. |
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Provides that the joint resolution shall be considered as read. |
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Waives all points of order against provisions in the joint resolution. |
21. |
Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce or their respective designees. |
22. |
Provides one motion to recommit. |
# | Version # | Sponsor(s) | Party | Summary | Status |
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1 | Version 2 | Ogles (TN) | Republican | Revised Reduces the threshold value at which gifts must be reported from $50,000 to $1. | Made in Order |
2 | Version 2 | Ogles (TN) | Republican | Revised Requires that China, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey are considered countries of concern for the purposes of this Act. | Revised |
3 | Version 1 | Perry (PA), Ogles (TN) | Republican | Adds international organizations to the definition of foreign sources for the purposes of Section 117, Disclosures of Foreign Gifts. | Made in Order |
4 | Version 1 | Fallon (TX) | Republican | Strikes 4 years on page 6, line 17 and replaces it with 5 years. Strikes 4 years on page 26, line 14, and replaces it with 5 years. | Made in Order |
5 | Version 1 | Fallon (TX) | Republican | Prohibits institutions that commit three violations under this Act from obtaining a waiver or a renewal of a waiver. | Made in Order |
6 | Version 1 | Scott (VA) | Democrat | SUBSTITUTE Strikes and replaces bill language with a Democratic Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute. | Made in Order |
7 | Version 1 | Gottheimer (NJ) | Democrat | Adds Qatar to the list of countries of concern covered by this Act. | Submitted |
8 | Version 1 | Gottheimer (NJ) | Democrat | Requires colleges and universities to publish their policies to protect students from malign foreign interference on their campuses. | Submitted |
9 | Version 2 | Gottheimer (NJ) | Democrat | Revised Directs the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Energy, the Director of the National Science Foundation, and the Director of the National Institutes of Health, to establish an interagency joint task force to be known as the "Task Force on Foreign Interference in Institutions of Higher Education" to develop guidelines and best practices that carry out the recommendations of the prescribed GAO report required by the Act. | Revised |
10 | Version 1 | Gottheimer (NJ) | Democrat | Prohibits colleges and universities from marketing their institutions on the social networking service TikTok or any successor application or service developed or provided by ByteDance Limited or an entity owned by ByteDance Limited. | Submitted |
11 | Version 1 | Manning (NC) | Democrat | Protects the personally identifiable information of faculty and staff and reduces administrative burdens by removing the requirement that institutions maintain a public, searchable database under Sec. 117b (2). | Submitted |
12 | Version 1 | Manning (NC) | Democrat | Protects the privacy of faculty and staff by removing personally identifiable information from the database established under Section 117(b). | Submitted |
13 | Version 1 | Manning (NC) | Democrat | Withdrawn Protects the privacy and personally identifiable information of faculty and staff by making the public database searchable by the academic department rather than researchers’ full names. | Withdrawn |
14 | Version 1 | Jacobs (CA) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary, in consultation with relevant federal agencies, issue draft guidance for institutions to comply with requirements of section 117, 117A, 117B, and 117C. | Submitted |
15 | Version 1 | Jacobs (CA) | Democrat | Requires the GAO report to examine the costs of compliance for institutions including but not limited to hiring relevant employees, preparation, training and information technologies | Submitted |
16 | Version 1 | Jacobs (CA) | Democrat | Clarifies that contracts do not include agreements that are unrelated to the educational function or other operations of the institution | Submitted |
17 | Version 1 | Jacobs (CA) | Democrat | Requires the exclusion of the name and/or any other personally identifiable information of a covered individual from the data that is made available to or searchable by the public | Submitted |
18 | Version 1 | Foxx (NC) | Republican | MANAGER’S AMENDMENT Makes technical edits to fix citations and adjust punctuation. Clarifies language on gifts, enforcement, and the mandated GAO study. | Made in Order |
19 | Version 1 | Torres (CA) | Democrat | Ensures the Department of Education is developing and implementing policies that do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national origin. | Submitted |
20 | Version 2 | Torres (CA) | Democrat | Revised Directs the Department of Education to make sure reporting requirements are aligned to reduce burden and repetitive nature along with a report to Congress from Department of Education for how they are addressing concerns around reporting and foreign influence in higher education research. | Revised |
21 | Version 1 | Donalds (FL) | Republican | Makes certain revisions to the process associated with the receipt and disposition of foreign gifts and decorations to bolster transparency, remedy inconsistent data collection, and ensure gift-related statutory compliance. | Submitted |
22 | Version 1 | Roy (TX) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Prohibits universities from accepting federal funds if they receive gifts from foreign countries. | Withdrawn |
23 | Version 1 | Molinaro (NY) | Republican | Late Includes a requirement that foreign entities disclose any ties to designated foreign terrorist organizations, which includes Hamas. | Made in Order |
24 | Version 2 | Carey (OH) | Republican | Late Revised Revises the public, searchable database under Sec. 117b (2) to remove the personally identifiable information of staff or faculty required to disclose gifts and contracts in the bill. It would require Universities to include in the database the department, School, or college of the institution for the individual who is disclosing. Allows the names of the individuals making disclosures to be requested under the Freedom of Information Act. | Made in Order |
25 | Version 1 | Carey (OH) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Revises the public, searchable database under Sec. 117b (2) to remove the personally identifiable information of staff or faculty required to disclose gifts and contracts in the bill. It would require Universities to include in the database the department, School, or college of the institution for the individual who is disclosing. Allows the names of the individuals making disclosures to be requested under the Freedom of Information Act. | Withdrawn |
26 | Version 1 | Issa (CA) | Republican | Late Adds North Korea, China, Iran, and Russia to the list of countries of concern for the purposes of this Act. | Submitted |