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Committee hears substitute to bar foreign-adversary funding, require reporting and researcher training
Summary
Senator Parker laid out the committee substitute for Senate Bill 1741 at a Senate Committee on Education hearing (meeting date not specified), saying it requires annual reporting of foreign funding to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and would bar gifts from governments of foreign adversaries.
Senator Parker laid out the committee substitute for Senate Bill 1741 at a Senate Committee on Education hearing (meeting date not specified), describing it as a refile of prior legislation and saying the substitute corrects the bill’s effective date.
Parker told the committee the bill would require each public university to report foreign funding received during the preceding academic year to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board by Sept. 1 of each year. It would prohibit universities from accepting gifts, grants or donations from the government of a foreign adversary and would require espionage and intellectual property-theft prevention training for…
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