H.R. 4521: America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology, and Economic Strength Act of 2022

Bill · 117th Congress (2021–2022). Passed in two versions, 28 Mar 2022. Introduced 19 Jul 2021.

Official title: To provide for a coordinated Federal research initiative to ensure continued United States leadership in engineering biology.

Vote results

• House, 4 Feb 2022: Passed, 222 Yea, 210 Nay, 0 Present, 2 Not voting. The House’s roll call
• Senate, 28 Mar 2022: Bill Passed, 68 Yea, 28 Nay, 0 Present, 4 Not voting. The Senate’s roll call
• President: Not presented to the President.

How each member voted

Senate

Yea (68): Chuck Grassley (R-IA); Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT); Edward J. Markey (D-MA); Charles E. Schumer (D-NY); Ron Wyden (D-OR); Richard J. Durbin (D-IL); Mitch McConnell (R-KY); Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD); Thomas R. Carper (D-DE); Jack Reed (D-RI); Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Sherrod Brown (D-OH); Mike Crapo (R-ID); Patty Murray (D-WA); Robert Menendez (D-NJ); Roger F. Wicker (R-MS); Susan M. Collins (R-ME); Jerry Moran (R-KS); Debbie Stabenow (D-MI); Tammy Baldwin (D-WI); Maria Cantwell (D-WA); Rob Portman (R-OH); Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV); John Cornyn (R-TX); Lisa Murkowski (R-AK); Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA); Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY); Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI); Amy Klobuchar (D-MN); Christopher Murphy (D-CT); Jon Tester (D-MT); Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI); Bill Cassidy (R-LA); Martin Heinrich (D-NM); Ben Ray Luján (D-NM); Jeff Merkley (D-OR); Gary C. Peters (D-MI); James E. Risch (R-ID); Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH); Mark R. Warner (D-VA); Michael F. Bennet (D-CO); Christopher A. Coons (D-DE); Joe Manchin, III (D-WV); Richard Blumenthal (D-CT); Todd Young (R-IN); Brian Schatz (D-HI); Steve Daines (R-MT); Tammy Duckworth (D-IL); Tim Kaine (D-VA); Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME); Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ); Elizabeth Warren (D-MA); Cory A. Booker (D-NJ); Mike Rounds (R-SD); Ben Sasse (R-NE); Dan Sullivan (R-AK); Thom Tillis (R-NC); Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV); Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH); Jacky Rosen (D-NV); Tina Smith (D-MN); Mitt Romney (R-UT); Mark Kelly (D-AZ); John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO); Jon Ossoff (D-GA); Alex Padilla (D-CA); Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA).

Nay (28): Richard C. Shelby (R-AL); James M. Inhofe (R-OK); Bernard Sanders (I-VT); Richard Burr (R-NC); John Thune (R-SD); John Boozman (R-AR); Marsha Blackburn (R-TN); Patrick J. Toomey (R-PA); John Barrasso (R-WY); John Hoeven (R-ND); Ron Johnson (R-WI); James Lankford (R-OK); Mike Lee (R-UT); Rand Paul (R-KY); Marco Rubio (R-FL); Tim Scott (R-SC); Kevin Cramer (R-ND); Ted Cruz (R-TX); Deb Fischer (R-NE); Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY); Joni Ernst (R-IA); Roger Marshall (R-KS); Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS); Mike Braun (R-IN); Josh Hawley (R-MO); Rick Scott (R-FL); Bill Hagerty (R-TN); Tommy Tuberville (R-AL).

Not voting (4): Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Roy Blunt (R-MO); Tom Cotton (R-AR); John Kennedy (R-LA).

Not in office (2): Kamala D. Harris (D-CA); Kelly Loeffler (R-GA).

House

Yea (222): Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD-5); Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-9); Peter A. DeFazio (D-OR-4); Nancy Pelosi (D-CA-12); Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ-6); Richard E. Neal (D-MA-1); David E. Price (D-NC-4); Jim Cooper (D-TN-5); Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT-3); Maxine Waters (D-CA-43); Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-10); Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA-2); James E. Clyburn (D-SC-6); Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA-18); Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX-30); Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY-12); Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA-40); Bobby L. Rush (D-IL-1); Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA-3); Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY-7); Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS-2); Lloyd Doggett (D-TX-35); Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18); Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-19); Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-3); Danny K. Davis (D-IL-7); Diana DeGette (D-CO-1); Ron Kind (D-WI-3); James P. McGovern (D-MA-2); Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-9); Brad Sherman (D-CA-30); Adam Smith (D-WA-9); Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY-5); Barbara Lee (D-CA-13); John B. Larson (D-CT-1); Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA-32); Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL-9); Mike Thompson (D-CA-5); James R. Langevin (D-RI-2); Rick Larsen (D-WA-2); Betty McCollum (D-MN-4); Adam B. Schiff (D-CA-28); Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA-8); Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ-3); C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD-2); Tim Ryan (D-OH-13); David Scott (D-GA-13); Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA-38); Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO-5); Jim Costa (D-CA-16); Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28); Al Green (D-TX-9); Brian Higgins (D-NY-26); Gwen Moore (D-WI-4); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-23); Doris O. Matsui (D-CA-6); Albio Sires (D-NJ-8); Kathy Castor (D-FL-14); Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY-9); Steve Cohen (D-TN-9); Joe Courtney (D-CT-2); Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA-4); Jerry McNerney (D-CA-9); Ed Perlmutter (D-CO-7); John P. Sarbanes (D-MD-3); Peter Welch (D-VT-AL); John A. Yarmuth (D-KY-3); André Carson (D-IN-7); Jackie Speier (D-CA-14); Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA-11); James A. Himes (D-CT-4); Chellie Pingree (D-ME-1); Paul Tonko (D-NY-20); Kurt Schrader (D-OR-5); Mike Quigley (D-IL-5); Judy Chu (D-CA-27); John Garamendi (D-CA-3); Bill Foster (D-IL-11); Karen Bass (D-CA-37); David N. Cicilline (D-RI-1); William R. Keating (D-MA-9); Adam Kinzinger (R-IL-16); Terri A. Sewell (D-AL-7); Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL-24); Dina Titus (D-NV-1); Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-7); Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1); Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA-1); Donald M. Payne, Jr. (D-NJ-10); Joyce Beatty (D-OH-3); Ami Bera (D-CA-7); Julia Brownley (D-CA-26); Cheri Bustos (D-IL-17); Matt Cartwright (D-PA-8); Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20); Tony Cárdenas (D-CA-29); Lois Frankel (D-FL-21); Jared Huffman (D-CA-2); Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY-8); Daniel T. Kildee (D-MI-5); Derek Kilmer (D-WA-6); Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ-2); Ann M. Kuster (D-NH-2); Alan S. Lowenthal (D-CA-47); Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY-18); Grace Meng (D-NY-6); Scott H. Peters (D-CA-52); Mark Pocan (D-WI-2); Raul Ruiz (D-CA-36); Eric Swalwell (D-CA-15); Mark Takano (D-CA-41); Juan Vargas (D-CA-51); Marc A. Veasey (D-TX-33); Robin L. Kelly (D-IL-2); Katherine M. Clark (D-MA-5); Alma S. Adams (D-NC-12); Donald Norcross (D-NJ-1); Pete Aguilar (D-CA-31); Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA-8); Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA-2); Ed Case (D-HI-1); Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA-11); Debbie Dingell (D-MI-12); Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-7); Brenda L. Lawrence (D-MI-14); Ted Lieu (D-CA-33); Seth Moulton (D-MA-6); Kathleen M. Rice (D-NY-4); Norma J. Torres (D-CA-35); Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12); Bradley Scott Schneider (D-IL-10); Dwight Evans (D-PA-3); Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA-44); Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE-AL); Anthony G. Brown (D-MD-4); Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA-24); J. Luis Correa (D-CA-46); Val Butler Demings (D-FL-10); Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13); Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX-15); Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-5); Steven Horsford (D-NV-4); Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7); Ro Khanna (D-CA-17); Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-8); Al Lawson, Jr. (D-FL-5); Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ-1); Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20); Jamie Raskin (D-MD-8); Darren Soto (D-FL-9); Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY-3); Jimmy Gomez (D-CA-34); Conor Lamb (D-PA-17); Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY-25); Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-5); Susan Wild (D-PA-7); Colin Z. Allred (D-TX-32); Cynthia Axne (D-IA-3); Sean Casten (D-IL-6); Angie Craig (D-MN-2); Jason Crow (D-CO-6); Sharice Davids (D-KS-3); Madeleine Dean (D-PA-4); Veronica Escobar (D-TX-16); Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX-7); Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX-29); Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL-4); Jared F. Golden (D-ME-2); Josh Harder (D-CA-10); Jahana Hayes (D-CT-5); Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-6); Andy Kim (D-NJ-3); Susie Lee (D-NV-3); Andy Levin (D-MI-9); Mike Levin (D-CA-49); Elaine G. Luria (D-VA-2); Tom Malinowski (D-NJ-7); Lucy McBath (D-GA-6); Joe Neguse (D-CO-2); Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14); Ilhan Omar (D-MN-5); Chris Pappas (D-NH-1); Dean Phillips (D-MN-3); Katie Porter (D-CA-45); Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-7); Kim Schrier (D-WA-8); Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ-11); Elissa Slotkin (D-MI-8); Abigail Davis Spanberger (D-VA-7); Greg Stanton (D-AZ-9); Haley M. Stevens (D-MI-11); Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-13); Lori Trahan (D-MA-3); David J. Trone (D-MD-6); Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14); Jennifer Wexton (D-VA-10); Jake Auchincloss (D-MA-4); Carolyn Bourdeaux (D-GA-7); Jamaal Bowman (D-NY-16); Cori Bush (D-MO-1); Sara Jacobs (D-CA-53); Mondaire Jones (D-NY-17); Kaiali’i Kahele (D-HI-2); Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM-3); Kathy E. Manning (D-NC-6); Frank J. Mrvan (D-IN-1); Marie Newman (D-IL-3); Deborah K. Ross (D-NC-2); Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10); Ritchie Torres (D-NY-15); Nikema Williams (D-GA-5); Troy A. Carter (D-LA-2); Melanie A. Stansbury (D-NM-1); Shontel M. Brown (D-OH-11); Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL-20); Michael F. Doyle (D-PA-18); G. K. Butterfield (D-NC-1); Theodore E. Deutch (D-FL-22); Filemon Vela (D-TX-34); A. Donald McEachin (D-VA-4); Charlie Crist (D-FL-13); Antonio Delgado (D-NY-19).

Nay (210): Harold Rogers (R-KY-5); Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ-4); Fred Upton (R-MI-6); Ken Calvert (R-CA-42); Frank D. Lucas (R-OK-3); Steve Chabot (R-OH-1); Robert B. Aderholt (R-AL-4); Kevin Brady (R-TX-8); Kay Granger (R-TX-12); Michael K. Simpson (R-ID-2); Pete Sessions (R-TX-17); Sam Graves (R-MO-6); Joe Wilson (R-SC-2); Michael C. Burgess (R-TX-26); John R. Carter (R-TX-31); Tom Cole (R-OK-4); Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL-25); Mike Rogers (R-AL-3); Michael R. Turner (R-OH-10); Darrell Issa (R-CA-50); Virginia Foxx (R-NC-5); Louie Gohmert (R-TX-1); Michael T. McCaul (R-TX-10); Patrick T. McHenry (R-NC-10); Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA-5); Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL-12); Vern Buchanan (R-FL-16); Jim Jordan (R-OH-4); Doug Lamborn (R-CO-5); Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-23); Adrian Smith (R-NE-3); Robert E. Latta (R-OH-5); Robert J. Wittman (R-VA-1); Steve Scalise (R-LA-1); Tim Walberg (R-MI-7); Brett Guthrie (R-KY-2); Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO-3); Tom McClintock (R-CA-4); Bill Posey (R-FL-8); Glenn Thompson (R-PA-15); Mo Brooks (R-AL-5); Larry Bucshon (R-IN-8); Eric A. "Rick" Crawford (R-AR-1); Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-4); Jeff Duncan (R-SC-3); Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (R-TN-3); Bob Gibbs (R-OH-7); Paul A. Gosar (R-AZ-4); H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA-9); Andy Harris (R-MD-1); Vicky Hartzler (R-MO-4); Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA-3); Bill Huizenga (R-MI-2); Bill Johnson (R-OH-6); Mike Kelly (R-PA-16); Billy Long (R-MO-7); David B. McKinley (R-WV-1); Steven M. Palazzo (R-MS-4); David Schweikert (R-AZ-6); Austin Scott (R-GA-8); Daniel Webster (R-FL-11); Steve Womack (R-AR-3); Mark E. Amodei (R-NV-2); Thomas Massie (R-KY-4); Andy Barr (R-KY-6); Rodney Davis (R-IL-13); Richard Hudson (R-NC-8); David P. Joyce (R-OH-14); Doug LaMalfa (R-CA-1); Markwayne Mullin (R-OK-2); Scott Perry (R-PA-10); Tom Rice (R-SC-7); Chris Stewart (R-UT-2); Ann Wagner (R-MO-2); Randy K. Weber, Sr. (R-TX-14); Brad R. Wenstrup (R-OH-2); Roger Williams (R-TX-25); Jason Smith (R-MO-8); Rick W. Allen (R-GA-12); Brian Babin (R-TX-36); Mike Bost (R-IL-12); Ken Buck (R-CO-4); Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA-1); Tom Emmer (R-MN-6); Glenn Grothman (R-WI-6); Jody B. Hice (R-GA-10); J. French Hill (R-AR-2); John Katko (R-NY-24); Barry Loudermilk (R-GA-11); John R. Moolenaar (R-MI-4); Alexander X. Mooney (R-WV-2); Dan Newhouse (R-WA-4); Gary J. Palmer (R-AL-6); David Rouzer (R-NC-7); Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY-21); Bruce Westerman (R-AR-4); Lee M. Zeldin (R-NY-1); David G. Valadao (R-CA-21); Trent Kelly (R-MS-1); Darin LaHood (R-IL-18); Warren Davidson (R-OH-8); James Comer (R-KY-1); Jodey C. Arrington (R-TX-19); Don Bacon (R-NE-2); Jim Banks (R-IN-3); Jack Bergman (R-MI-1); Andy Biggs (R-AZ-5); Ted Budd (R-NC-13); Liz Cheney (R-WY-AL); Neal P. Dunn (R-FL-2); A. Drew Ferguson IV (R-GA-3); Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1); Matt Gaetz (R-FL-1); Mike Gallagher (R-WI-8); Clay Higgins (R-LA-3); Trey Hollingsworth (R-IN-9); Mike Johnson (R-LA-4); David Kustoff (R-TN-8); Brian J. Mast (R-FL-18); Stephanie N. Murphy (D-FL-7); John H. Rutherford (R-FL-4); Lloyd Smucker (R-PA-11); Ralph Norman (R-SC-5); John R. Curtis (R-UT-3); Debbie Lesko (R-AZ-8); Michael Cloud (R-TX-27); Troy Balderson (R-OH-12); Kevin Hern (R-OK-1); Kelly Armstrong (R-ND-AL); James R. Baird (R-IN-4); Tim Burchett (R-TN-2); Ben Cline (R-VA-6); Dan Crenshaw (R-TX-2); Russ Fulcher (R-ID-1); Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH-16); Lance Gooden (R-TX-5); Mark E. Green (R-TN-7); Michael Guest (R-MS-3); Dusty Johnson (R-SD-AL); John Joyce (R-PA-13); Daniel Meuser (R-PA-9); Carol D. Miller (R-WV-3); Greg Pence (R-IN-6); Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA-14); John W. Rose (R-TN-6); Chip Roy (R-TX-21); Pete Stauber (R-MN-8); Bryan Steil (R-WI-1); W. Gregory Steube (R-FL-17); Van Taylor (R-TX-3); William R. Timmons IV (R-SC-4); Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ-2); Michael Waltz (R-FL-6); Claudia Tenney (R-NY-22); Fred Keller (R-PA-12); Dan Bishop (R-NC-9); Gregory F. Murphy (R-NC-3); Mike Garcia (R-CA-25); Thomas P. Tiffany (R-WI-7); Chris Jacobs (R-NY-27); Cliff Bentz (R-OR-2); Stephanie I. Bice (R-OK-5); Lauren Boebert (R-CO-3); Kat Cammack (R-FL-3); Jerry L. Carl (R-AL-1); Madison Cawthorn (R-NC-11); Andrew S. Clyde (R-GA-9); Byron Donalds (R-FL-19); Pat Fallon (R-TX-4); Randy Feenstra (R-IA-4); Michelle Fischbach (R-MN-7); Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI-5); Scott Franklin (R-FL-15); Andrew R. Garbarino (R-NY-2); Carlos A. Gimenez (R-FL-26); Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23); Bob Good (R-VA-5); Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA-14); Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-1); Yvette Herrell (R-NM-2); Ashley Hinson (R-IA-1); Ronny Jackson (R-TX-13); Young Kim (R-CA-39); Jake LaTurner (R-KS-2); Nancy Mace (R-SC-1); Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11); Tracey Mann (R-KS-1); Lisa C. McClain (R-MI-10); Peter Meijer (R-MI-3); Mary E. Miller (R-IL-15); Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA-2); Barry Moore (R-AL-2); Blake D. Moore (R-UT-1); Troy E. Nehls (R-TX-22); Jay Obernolte (R-CA-8); Burgess Owens (R-UT-4); August Pfluger (R-TX-11); Matthew M. Rosendale, Sr. (R-MT-AL); Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL-27); Victoria Spartz (R-IN-5); Michelle Steel (R-CA-48); Beth Van Duyne (R-TX-24); Julia Letlow (R-LA-5); Jake Ellzey (R-TX-6); Mike Carey (R-OH-15); Don Young (R-AK-AL); Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE-1); Tom Reed (R-NY-23); Jackie Walorski (R-IN-2); Jim Hagedorn (R-MN-1).

Not voting (2): Garret Graves (R-LA-6); Ron Estes (R-KS-4).

Not in office (15): Connie Conway (R-CA-22); Mayra Flores (R-TX-34); Mike Flood (R-NE-1); Brad Finstad (R-MN-1); Mary Sattler Peltola (D-AK-AL); Patrick Ryan (D-NY-19); Joseph Sempolinski (R-NY-23); Rudy Yakym III (R-IN-2); Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL-20); Devin Nunes (R-CA-22); Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH-11); Steve Stivers (R-OH-15); Cedric L. Richmond (D-LA-2); Debra A. Haaland (D-NM-1); Ron Wright (R-TX-6).

Summary

Main subject: Provides appropriations and authorizations across many policy areas in a multi-division bill, including semiconductor incentives, federal science and technology research, supply chains, foreign affairs, financial services, ocean and public lands, immigration, education and workforce, trade, and ocean shipping. Division A, Division B, Division C, Division D, Division G, Division H, Division I, Division J, Division K, Division L, Division S

Its core areas: Semiconductor manufacturing incentives and the CHIPS for America Fund; Department of Energy, NIST and National Science Foundation research and STEM programs, including the engineering biology initiative; Technology transfer and regional innovation hubs; Supply chain resilience and manufacturing programs; China-related and Indo-Pacific foreign policy provisions; Financial services, China-related lending and cannabis banking; Fisheries, marine mammals and coral reef conservation; Immigration visas for entrepreneurs and STEM graduates; Apprenticeship, workforce training and higher education programs; Trade adjustment assistance, trade remedies and temporary tariff suspensions; Ocean shipping regulation, maritime workforce and freight rail research; Reporting on foreign ownership of agricultural land.

Unexpected Items: 256 provisions

These provisions fall outside the bill’s main subject or apply narrowly. This describes the text; it is not a judgment.

Not related to the bill’s main subject (154)

• Sec. 3: Prohibiting discrimination against people of Asian descent: Directs the President to ensure that the Act's provisions aimed at countering the influence of the Chinese Communist Party are implemented without discrimination against people of Asian descent on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, or nationality.
• Sec. 10112: High intensity laser research initiative; Office of Science Emerging Infectious Disease Computing Research Initiative; helium conservation program; authorization of appropriations: Creates an Office of Science research initiative on emerging infectious diseases, including COVID–19, with a computing consortium and $50,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, and bars gain-of-function research of concern. ($50,000,000)
• Sec. 10246: Standard technical update: Amends the NIST Act to authorize armed protective officers with arrest authority at NIST facilities, and amends the Federal Energy Management Improvement Act of 1988 to replace references to the Secretary of Commerce with the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
• Sec. 10306: Fundamental research: Requires the National Science Foundation Director to commission a study on the economic impact of inflation within 45 days of enactment, with $1,000,000 of authorized funds used for it. ($1,000,000)
• Sec. 10522: NIST engagement with rural communities: Amends NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership outreach language and sets up a prize competition, with awards of not more than a total of $5,000,000, for technologies to deploy broadband connectivity to underserved rural communities. ($5,000,000)
• Sec. 10523: NITR-D broadband working group: Adds a section to the High-Performance Computing Act creating a broadband research and development working group on broadband access and adoption, which ends 5 years after enactment of the America COMPETES Act of 2022.
• Sec. 10613: National Circular Economy Roadmap: Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop, within 2 years, a national roadmap for how science and technology should support a circular economy, with policy recommendations.
• Sec. 10741: Establishment of blockchain and cryptocurrency specialist position within OSTP: Directs the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish a blockchain and cryptocurrencies advisory specialist position to advise the President on those matters.
• Sec. 20102: Understanding cybersecurity of mobile networks: Requires a report within 1 year on the cybersecurity of mobile service networks and their vulnerability to attacks and surveillance by adversaries. Authorizes $500,000 for fiscal year 2022. ($500,000)
• Sec. 20105: Future networks: Requires the Federal Communications Commission to establish a "6G Task Force" that reports on sixth-generation wireless technology.
• Sec. 20106: NTIA policy and cybersecurity coordination: Creates an Office of Policy Development and Cybersecurity within the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and redesignates the head position and its current holder.
• Sec. 20107: American cybersecurity literacy: Directs the Secretary of Commerce to develop and conduct a cybersecurity literacy campaign to inform the public about practices to reduce cybersecurity risks.
• Sec. 20108: Communications security advisory council: Requires the Federal Communications Commission to establish a council advising on the security, reliability, and interoperability of communications networks, and exempts it from automatic advisory committee termination.
• Sec. 20109: Promoting United States wireless leadership: Directs the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to encourage participation by companies and stakeholders, excluding those found "not trusted", in standards-setting bodies for 5G and later wireless networks.
• Division C, Title II, Subtitle B, Sec. 20212: Availability of Travel Promotion Fund for Brand USA: Directs the Treasury Secretary to make $250,000,000 from unobligated Travel Promotion Fund balances available to the Corporation for Travel Promotion ("Brand USA"), until expended, and sets limits on how it is used. ($250,000,000)
• Sec. 20213: Collection, verification, and disclosure of information by online marketplaces to inform consumers: Requires online marketplaces to collect, verify and disclose identity and contact information for high-volume third party sellers, with enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission and State attorneys general.
• Sec. 20214: Supercomputing For Safer Chemicals (SUPERSAFE) Consortium: Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to form a consortium with the National Laboratories and public research institutions to use supercomputing to identify toxic substances and safer chemicals, and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
• Sec. 20304: Improving the natural gas distribution system: Creates a Department of Energy grant program giving States financial assistance to offset rate increases paid by low-income households from natural gas distribution system replacement and repair programs, and authorizes $250,000,000 in each of fiscal years 2022 through 2031. ($250,000,000)
• Sec. 20305: Consideration of energy storage systems: Amends federal utility regulatory law to require each State to consider requiring electric utilities to show they considered energy storage investments in resource planning, with deadlines, and exempts utilities in States that already acted on the standard.
• Sec. 30215: Facilitation of increased equity investments under the Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development Act of 2018: Applies the Federal Credit Reform Act to equity support under the BUILD Act and raises the maximum contingent liability from $60,000,000,000 to $100,000,000,000.
• Sec. 30216: Expanding investment by United States International Development Finance Corporation for vaccine manufacturing, distribution, storage, and delivery: Authorizes the Development Finance Corporation to finance vaccine manufacturing, distribution, storage and delivery capacity in India and other less developed countries, and requires a report.
• Sec. 30217: Actions to prevent the spread of the COVID–19 pandemic: Directs the Secretary of State, with USAID, to expand COVID–19 testing capacity, vaccine distribution and medical supply acquisition to the extent practicable.
• Sec. 30219C: Report on origins of the COVID–19 pandemic: Requires the President to report within 180 days on the most likely source or origin of the SARS–CoV–2 virus and the level of confidence in that assessment.
• Sec. 30219G: Oversight of funds made available through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021: Applies foreign assistance conditions to American Rescue Plan Act funds, allows transfers to Inspectors General for oversight, and sets conditions on contributions to the Global Fund COVID–19 Response Mechanism.
• Sec. 30219H: Requirements relating to vaccine branding: Requires every vaccine donated or procured and financed by the U.S. Government to be branded with the United States flag.
• Sec. 30219I: National Intelligence Estimate on escalation and de-escalation of gray zone activities in great power competition: Requires the Director of National Intelligence to produce a National Intelligence Estimate on gray zone activities by foreign adversaries and to develop a lexicon of related terms.
• Sec. 30219J: Prioritizing Digital Infrastructure and Connectivity: States that the Development Finance Corporation should prioritize support for digital infrastructure and connectivity projects and requires a report on regions and countries with the greatest need.
• Sec. 30241A: Report on indigenous engagement: Requires the Secretary of State to report on international engagement with indigenous peoples by Native Americans, including a strategy that covers establishing an Office of Indigenous Affairs headed by a Special Envoy.
• Sec. 30246: Strategy to strengthen economic competitiveness, governance, human rights, and the rule of law in Latin America and the Caribbean: Requires a multi-year State Department strategy for increasing U.S. economic competitiveness and promoting good governance, human rights and the rule of law in Latin American and Caribbean countries, covering investment, development, commercial relations, anti-corruption and infrastructure projects.
• Sec. 30248: Defense cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Authorizes $13,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for the International Military Education and Training Program for Latin America and the Caribbean. ($13,500,000)
• Sec. 30250: Caribbean energy initiative as alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Sets a U.S. policy of helping Caribbean countries lower dependence on imported fuels and increase renewable energy, and requires a multi-year State Department strategy on regional energy cooperation.
• Sec. 30251: United States-Caribbean Resilience Partnership: Authorizes $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2022, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2023, and $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2024 and each fiscal year thereafter for the United States-Caribbean Resilience Partnership on disaster resilience.
• Sec. 30274: Support for Young African Leaders Initiative: Establishes the Young African Leaders Initiative under the Secretary of State, with fellowships, regional leadership centers in sub-Saharan Africa, an implementation plan and annual reports, ending 5 years after enactment.
• Sec. 30275: Africa broadcasting networks: Requires the Chief Executive Officer of the United States Agency for Global Media to report on the resources and timeline needed to set up a news and information organization for Africa within the Agency.
• Sec. 30285: Arctic diplomacy: Sets out Arctic security policy statements, defines which states count as Arctic states, and creates an Ambassador at Large for Arctic Affairs in the Department of State with an Arctic Region Security Policy.
• Sec. 30307: Removal of members of the United Nations Human Rights Council that commit human rights abuses: Directs the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations to push for changes to how the UN Human Rights Council removes and elects members, and to end a standing agenda item and a Commission of Inquiry concerning Israel.
• Sec. 30312: Modifications to and reauthorization of sanctions with respect to human rights violations: Amends the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to change the sanctions authority for any foreign person, add reporting items, and repeal the Act's sunset provision.
• Sec. 30313: Sense of congress condemning anti-asian racism and discrimination: States the sense of Congress condemning anti-Asian racism and discrimination and urging governments to oppose it; it sets no China-related or Indo-Pacific foreign policy measure.
• Sec. 30316: Review and controls on export of items with critical capabilities to enable human rights abuses: Requires the Commerce Secretary to review items under crime-control export controls and decide whether additional human-rights-based export controls are needed, without limiting this to China.
• Sec. 30403: Countering overseas kleptocracy: Creates an Anti-Corruption Action Fund in the Treasury, funded by an added $5,000,000 payment when Foreign Corrupt Practices Act penalties exceed $50,000,000, and sets up an interagency task force and embassy anti-corruption contacts. ($5,000,000)
• Sec. 30504: Report on support for Biodefense Steering Committee in implementation of National Biodefense Strategy: Requires the Director of National Intelligence to report on intelligence community support for the Biodefense Steering Committee and the National Biodefense Strategy, including foreign biological threats from covered countries.
• Sec. 30602: Enhancing security considerations for global climate disruptions: Requires the Secretary of State to conduct biennial evaluations of global climate system disruptions and use them to develop a climate security strategy, with reports every two years for 20 years.
• Sec. 30605: Using climate diplomacy to better serve national security and economic interests: Directs the President and Secretary of State to prioritize climate action and climate diplomacy in foreign policy, requires Climate Change Officer positions at posts, and sets related training and reporting.
• Sec. 30606: Driving a global climate change resilience strategy: Amends the Foreign Assistance Act to authorize climate resilience assistance, creates a Coordinator of Climate Change Resilience, requires a 10-year Global Climate Change Resilience Strategy, and authorizes such sums as necessary.
• Sec. 30607: Addressing international climate change mitigation, adaptation, and security: Establishes the International Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation, and Security Program for assistance to developing countries and authorizes $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year thereafter. ($2,000,000,000)
• Sec. 30608: Reducing the negative impacts from short-lived climate pollutants: Directs U.S. representatives to international bodies to advocate for reducing short-lived climate pollutants, sets up foreign partnerships, requires a plan on black carbon from ships, and creates an interagency working group.
• Sec. 30609: Building United States economic growth and technological innovation through the Green Climate Fund: Authorizes appropriations for U.S. contributions to the Green Climate Fund, $4,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 and 2023, and states findings and policy on climate financing. ($4,000,000,000)
• Sec. 30610: Ensuring a whole-of-government response to climate action: Requires the Secretary of State to establish a Climate Impacts Task Force to monitor climate-related events and other countries' climate action, with recurring reports and briefings to Congress.
• Sec. 30611: Working with international partners to reduce deforestation: Directs USAID to set up a program of assistance to reduce deforestation in developing countries, with emissions-reduction objectives, program standards, and a cap of 7 percent of funds for administrative expenses.
• Sec. 30612: Controlling the export of electronic waste to protect United States supply chains: Prohibits exports and reexports of electronic waste, with a registration and filing route for listed exempted items and a personal-use exception.
• Sec. 30613: Rural Export Center: Requires the Assistant Secretary of Commerce to establish a Rural Export Center at an existing Commercial Service office to provide market research and export support to rural businesses.
• Sec. 30614: Report on global exports of natural gas production: Requires the Secretary of State to report to Congress on foreign countries' natural gas policies and resources, their export potential, and U.S. actions to foster natural gas exports.
• Sec. 30701: Statement of policy concerning United States engagement regarding United Nations peacekeeping operations: States U.S. policy on United Nations peacekeeping operations and instructs the Permanent Representative to the UN to advocate for peacekeeping reforms.
• Sec. 30702: Repeal of the 25 percent cap on United States contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations: Repeals the limit on U.S. contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations, effective on transmittal of a written UN commitment, with a five-year provision that voids the repeal if reform progress is not found.
• Sec. 30703: Reports on United States efforts to achieve United Nations peacekeeping reform: Amends the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to add a reporting requirement on U.S. efforts to achieve UN peacekeeping reforms.
• Sec. 30704: Strategy to advocate for peacekeeping reforms at the United Nations: Requires the Secretary of State to submit a strategy within 90 days for working with the UN on peacekeeping reforms, to seek a written commitment from a UN official, and to report progress.
• Sec. 30705: Reporting requirements: Requires two reports from the Secretary of State: one on strengthening conflict prevention in UN missions and one on transitions of UN peacekeeping operations to host-country forces.
• Sec. 30802: Definitions: Defines terms such as wildlife market, commercial trade in live wildlife, and One Health for the title on preventing future pandemics.
• Sec. 30803: Study on risk of wildlife markets on the emergence of novel viral pathogens: Requires the Secretary of State to enter an agreement with the National Academies for a study of the health risk of wildlife markets, with a report due one year later and such sums as necessary authorized.
• Sec. 30804: Country-driven approach to end the commercial trade in live wildlife and associated wildlife markets: Requires the Secretary of State to publicly release a list of countries willing to end commercial trade in live wildlife and to work with them on Global Health Security Zoonoses Plans.
• Sec. 30805: Sense of congress: States the sense of Congress that global institutions and other organizations should promote the One Health approach and support community health and conservation in developing countries.
• Sec. 30806: Statement of policy: States U.S. policy to support alternative protein sources, help foreign governments reduce commercial trade in live wildlife for human consumption, and work with international partners on wildlife market closures.
• Sec. 30807: Prevention of future zoonotic spillover events: Directs State and USAID to work with foreign governments to close wildlife markets and prevent commercial trade in live wildlife, authorizes such sums as necessary for USAID food-system programs, authorizes hiring, and requires reports.
• Sec. 30808: One health task force: Establishes a One Health Task Force with members from listed agencies to plan for preventing and responding to zoonotic disease spillover, and to publish a plan and a 10-year strategy.
• Sec. 30809: Reservation of rights: States that nothing in the pandemic-prevention title restricts legal and regulated hunting, fishing, or trapping, or the transport of legally harvested fish or wildlife trophies.
• Sec. 40101: Federal Rotational Cyber Workforce Program: Creates a Federal Rotational Cyber Workforce Program under which federal employees may be detailed among cyber positions at agencies, and repeals the section after 5 years.
• Sec. 40102: AI in counterterrorism oversight enhancement: Requires privacy and civil liberties officers to give the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board notice of, and access to information about, AI-enabled counterterrorism technologies.
• Sec. 40104: Inflation study: Directs the Comptroller General to study and report within 1 year on the impacts of this Act on inflation and on how all amounts appropriated under it are spent.
• Sec. 40105: GAO report on inflation: Directs the Comptroller General to report within 18 months on this Act's effects on inflation in the first year and a projection for later years.
• Sec. 40106: American Security Drone Act: Bars executive agencies from procuring or operating unmanned aircraft systems made by covered foreign entities, with exemptions and waivers, and sets a government-wide UAS procurement policy.
• Sec. 50101: Homeland procurement reform: Sets procurement requirements for uniforms, protective gear and similar items bought for named DHS components, including a target that one-third of funds go to U.S. small business concerns, and requires a uniform allowance study.
• Sec. 50102: DHS software supply chain risk management: Requires DHS to issue guidance so contractors for new information and communications technology contracts submit a bill of materials and certify the items are free of known vulnerabilities.
• Sec. 50103: Department of Homeland Security Mentor-Protégé Program: Establishes a DHS mentor-protégé program in which mentor firms assist small businesses, historically Black colleges and universities, and minority-serving institutions to compete for DHS contracts.
• Sec. 50104: Unmanned aerial security: Prohibits the Secretary of Homeland Security from operating, funding or buying unmanned aircraft systems and related items from covered foreign countries, with waivers and a report.
• Sec. 50105: Metrics and reports on technologies relating to irregular migration along the southern border: Requires U.S. Customs and Border Protection to develop metrics on how procured technologies have affected irregular migration along the southern border, with an initial and a final report.
• Sec. 50106: Report on current standards and guidelines for managing ports of entry under the control of the Department of Homeland Security: Requires DHS, with the Secretary of Commerce, to report within 180 days on standards and guidelines for managing ports of entry, including staffing, delays, and infrastructure needs.
• Sec. 50107: Improving cybersecurity of small entities: Requires an annual cybersecurity report and training for small entities, and an annual report to Congress for 10 years on improving small entity cybersecurity.
• Sec. 50108: Critical Technology Security Centers: Directs DHS to award grants for at least four named cybersecurity Critical Technology Security Centers and authorizes appropriations of $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 rising to $49,000,000 for fiscal year 2026.
• Sec. 60401: Findings: Sets out congressional findings on the scale, links, and effects of wildlife trafficking, as background for a financing study.
• Sec. 60402: Study: Directs the Treasury and Interior Secretaries to jointly study wildlife trafficking financing and proceeds and report to congressional committees within 2 years.
• Sec. 61101: Study and report on feasibility of establishment and implementation of Afghan trade zones for licit trade: Directs the Treasury and State Secretaries to study how sanctions on Afghan individuals and the granting of licenses to them could allow foreign trade zones in Afghanistan for licit trade, and to report to Congress.
• Sec. 61415: Discretionary surplus funds: Amends the Federal Reserve Act provision on surplus funds by reducing its dollar figure by $6,000,000, within the cannabis banking title. ($6,000,000)
• Sec. 70901: Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration Act: Adds a 14th item to the Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration Act: the study of insular areas and the effects of climate change.
• Sec. 71001: Deep sea mining: Directs NOAA to seek an agreement with the National Academies within 90 days for an assessment of the environmental impacts of deep seabed mining.
• Sec. 71002: National Academies assessment of oceanic blue carbon: Directs NOAA to seek an agreement with the National Academies within 90 days for an assessment of oceanic blue carbon, including deep seafloor carbon storage.
• Sec. 71003: National Academies assessment of oil spills and plastic ingestion on sea life: Directs NOAA to seek an agreement with the National Academies for an assessment of plastic ingestion and fossil fuel spills on sea life, including counts of people employed in fossil fuel extraction by State.
• Sec. 71004: Offshore aquaculture: Directs NOAA to enter an agreement with National Academies boards within 24 months for an assessment of offshore aquaculture development in the exclusive economic zone.
• Sec. 71005: Expanding opportunities to increase the diversity, equity, and inclusion of highly skilled science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals in ocean research and development: Directs the Secretary of Commerce to expand diversity, equity, and inclusion of STEM professionals in NOAA-relevant fields and to authorize an unnamed independent 501(c)(3) organization to build public-private partnerships for this.
• Sec. 71006: Study on effects of 6PPD-quinone: Directs NOAA to seek an agreement with the National Academies within 90 days for a study of 6PPD-quinone effects on salmonids, aquatic species, and watersheds, with an economic analysis of salmon declines.
• Sec. 71101: Law enforcement attache deployment: Requires the Fish and Wildlife Service to hire, train and deploy at least 50 new law enforcement attaches at embassies and other facilities abroad, and authorizes $150,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2031. ($150,000,000)
• Sec. 71102: Lacey Act amendments: Amends the Lacey Act to let the Interior Secretary issue emergency import bans on wildlife species for up to 3 years. It also bars import of non-native species not already prohibited, except species imported in more than minimal quantities in the prior year or cleared by a determination.
• Sec. 71104: Offshore wind energy deployment: Directs federal agencies to seek to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy on the Outer Continental Shelf by 2030.
• Sec. 71105: Shovel-ready restoration grants for coastlines and fisheries: Creates a NOAA grant program for marine, estuarine, coastal and Great Lake habitat restoration and climate adaptation projects and authorizes $10,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2022. ($10,000,000,000)
• Sec. 71106: Leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf: Authorizes the Interior Secretary to grant Outer Continental Shelf leases in areas withdrawn by two 2020 Presidential Memoranda, and limits the scope of future withdrawals.
• Sec. 71108: Prohibition on Sale of American Mink: Prohibits possessing, selling or buying American mink raised in captivity for fur production, effective December 31, 2022, with Lacey Act penalties.
• Sec. 71204: Increased coordination among agencies with respect to data and monitoring: Adds duties for three interagency committees to coordinate ocean, coastal and geospatial data collection and measurements.
• Sec. 71206: Workforce study: Amends the NOAA workforce study to cover technical and trade skillsets and credentials in oceanic and atmospheric data work, workforce diversity, and hiring backlog.
• Sec. 71207: Accelerating innovation at Cooperative Institutes: Requires NOAA to include emerging technologies in the goals of its Cooperative Institutes and to make their data publicly accessible.
• Sec. 71208: Ocean Innovation Prize and prioritization: Requires NOAA to establish at least one Ocean Innovation Prize for data collection and monitoring technology and to prioritize related SBIR/STTR proposals for fiscal years 2023 and 2024.
• Sec. 71209: Reauthorization of NOAA programs: Replaces the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act authorization figures with $71,000,000, $34,000,000, $38,000,000, $45,000,000 and $35,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2026 across five paragraphs.
• Sec. 71210: Blue Economy valuation: Directs NOAA and other agencies to collect data measuring the value of Blue Economy industries, develop a Coastal and Ocean Economy Satellite Account, and publish biennial reports.
• Sec. 71211: Advanced Research Projects Agency–Oceans: Requires NOAA to seek an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to assess whether to establish an Advanced Research Projects Agency–Oceans, with a report due 18 months after enactment.
• Sec. 71301: Findings: Sets out congressional findings on climate change and climate education as the basis for a climate change education title.
• Sec. 71303: Climate Change Education Program: Directs NOAA to establish a Climate Change Education Program to increase climate literacy and provide formal and nonformal learning opportunities.
• Sec. 71304: Grant program: Creates NOAA grants for State educational agencies, higher education institutions, professional associations and youth corps for climate change education, and directs 40 percent of certain grant funds to environmental justice communities.
• Sec. 71305: Report: Requires NOAA to report to Congress annually, beginning 2 years after enactment, evaluating activities under the climate change education title.
• Sec. 71306: Authorization of appropriations: Authorizes $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2027 for the climate change education title and sets allocation percentage ranges among the grant categories. ($50,000,000)
• Sec. 71402: Establishment for the Office of Education Technology to support the Bureau of Indian Education: Requires Interior to establish an Office of Education Technology to support the Bureau of Indian Education, with a needs assessment, modernization plan, and annual reports.
• Sec. 71502: Land use planning; updates to programmatic environmental impact statements: Directs Interior to establish priority areas for geothermal, solar and wind projects on federal land and update environmental statements; exempts the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan from the 10-year review until January 1, 2031.
• Sec. 71503: Limited grandfathering: Requires owners of certain renewable energy right-of-way projects that applied on or before December 19, 2017 to pay the rents and fees in effect before the 2016 Bureau of Land Management rule.
• Sec. 71504: Disposition of revenues: Authorizes splitting wind and solar project revenues from federal land 25 percent each to the State, the counties, the Interior program, and a new Renewable Energy Resource Conservation Fund.
• Sec. 71505: Savings: Directs Interior to continue managing public lands under multiple use and sustained yield, including consideration of mineral and nonrenewable energy uses.
• Sec. 71601: Centralized website for resiliency grants: Requires NOAA to create a public website linking to federal resiliency, adaptation and mitigation grants for State, Tribal and local governments, and to conduct outreach.
• Sec. 71701: Working Waterfronts Grant Program: Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act to create a working waterfront task force and a matching grant program for coastal States, authorizing $15,000,000. ($15,000,000)
• Sec. 71801: Interagency working group: Establishes an Interagency Working Group on Coastal Blue Carbon to oversee mapping, priorities, and reports to Congress and a 5-year strategic plan.
• Sec. 71802: National map of coastal blue carbon ecosystems: Requires the working group to produce, update and maintain a national map and inventory of coastal blue carbon ecosystems.
• Sec. 71803: Restoration and protections for existing coastal blue carbon ecosystems: Directs NOAA to set a national conservation goal for blue carbon ecosystems, identify priorities, and run pilot programs to restore degraded coastal blue carbon ecosystems.
• Sec. 71804: NAS assessment of containment of carbon dioxide in deep seafloor environment: Requires NOAA to seek a National Academy of Sciences assessment of long-term effects of carbon dioxide stored in deep seafloor environments.
• Sec. 71805: Authorization of appropriations: Authorizes $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027 for NOAA to carry out the blue carbon title. ($15,000,000)
• Sec. 71903: Framework for interagency response and reporting: Amends the 2016 wildlife trafficking law to make country reports biennial, add Task Force duties on technology, digital platforms and interventions, and change strategic review timing.
• Sec. 71904: Funding safeguards: Amends the Foreign Assistance Act vetting procedures to require information requests from agencies that partner with international conservation groups, and requires the Secretary of State to implement them.
• Sec. 71905: Issuance of subpoenas in wildlife trafficking civil penalty enforcement actions: Gives the Secretary subpoena power for investigations and civil penalty hearings under the Endangered Species Act, the Lacey Act amendments and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.
• Sec. 80102: Collection of demographic information for patent inventors: Requires the Patent Office Director to collect voluntary demographic information from patent inventors and to publish annual reports and data on patent applications and issued patents by demographic group.
• Sec. 80103: Stopping harmful offers on platforms by screening against fakes in e-commerce: Makes electronic commerce platforms contributorily liable for counterfeit marks on health-and-safety goods sold by third parties unless they took listed steps, and sets civil damages for false take-down notices. Platforms under $500,000 in sales and low-value, low-volume sales are treated differently.
• Sec. 80201: Premerger notification filing fees: Changes merger premerger notification filing fee tiers, including lowering the lowest fee from $45,000 to $30,000, adding higher tiers up to $2,250,000, and adding annual inflation adjustments.
• Sec. 80202: Authorization of appropriations: Authorizes fiscal year 2022 appropriations of $252,000,000 for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and $418,000,000 for the Federal Trade Commission.
• Sec. 80203: Mergers involving foreign government subsidies: Requires merger notification filers that received a subsidy from a foreign state to include a detailed accounting of each subsidy, and directs the FTC to set the form by rule.
• Sec. 80306: Reciprocal visas for nationals of South Korea: Creates a new E-category visa for specialty occupation services for nationals of the Republic of Korea, capped at 15,000 initial applications per fiscal year for principal aliens.
• Sec. 80307: Special immigrant visas for certain Fulbright scholars: Adds a special immigrant visa category for Afghan nationals selected for Fulbright and other State Department exchange programs between October 7, 2001 and August 31, 2022, not counted against numerical visa limits.
• Sec. 80308: Citizenship for certain children born outside the United States: Rewrites the effective date and applicability of the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 and deems certain individuals who met earlier citizenship requirements to be citizens as of enactment.
• Sec. 80309: Foreign Corruption Accountability: Authorizes the Secretary of State to impose visa-based sanctions on foreign persons found to engage in public corruption against a United States person, with annual reports to Congress and a 6-year sunset.
• Sec. 80401: Admission of essential scientists and technical experts to promote and protect National Security Innovation Base: Creates a special immigrant status for scientists and technical experts tied to the National Security Innovation Base, capped at 10 principal aliens a year for fiscal years 2022 through 2030 and 100 a year after, and requires a Secretary of Defense statement.
• Sec. 80501: Justice for Victims of Kleptocracy: Requires the Attorney General to publish on the Department of Justice website an accounting of property relating to foreign government corruption forfeited to the United States, and states a sense of Congress on returning recovered assets.
• Sec. 80601: Registration of agent: Requires foreign-organized or foreign-owned covered entities doing business in the United States to register a United States agent for service of process with the Department of Commerce, which publishes the information in a public database.
• Sec. 106005: Prohibition on large scale transportation of sodium cyanide briquettes for mining purposes in the United States: Directs the Secretary of Commerce to issue an interim final rule banning transportation of sodium cyanide briquettes for mining purposes unless packaged and transported in ISO steel containers, and to complete a rulemaking on the effects within 1 year.
• Sec. 110001: Recompete pilot program: Authorizes $4,000,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2025 to the Department of Commerce for a 'Recompete Pilot Program' of grants to eligible areas and Tribal lands to address persistent economic distress. ($4,000,000,000)
• Sec. 110004: Economic adjustment assistance for energy and industrial transition communities: Authorizes $240,000,000 in total for fiscal years 2023 through 2028 to the Secretary of Commerce for economic adjustment assistance to energy and industrial transition communities. ($240,000,000)
• Sec. 120001: Sense of Congress regarding negative perception of persons of Asian ancestry and Federal law enforcement: States the sense of Congress that federal law enforcement perceptions toward people of Asian ancestry have had negative effects, and that national policy should guard against targeting scientists and academics on the basis of Chinese ethnicity or familial background.
• Sec. 130001: Prohibiting Use of Funds for Publicity or Propaganda: Bars use of any funds authorized or made available under this Act for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by Congress.
• Sec. 140001: Prohibition on use of funds to obtain communications equipment or services posing national security risk: Amends the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to bar use of funds made available under that Act or its amendments to obtain covered communications equipment or services as defined in the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019.
• Sec. 160001: Emerging technology leads: Directs covered federal agencies engaged with emerging technologies to consider appointing or designating a senior individual as an emerging technology lead, and requires the President to inform Congress of each such appointment within 180 days.
• Sec. 170001: Child care resource guide: Amends the Small Business Act to require the SBA Administrator to publish and periodically update a resource guide for small business concerns operating as child care providers.
• Sec. 20104: Open RAN outreach: Directs the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to conduct outreach and provide technical assistance to small communications network providers about Open RAN networks and a wireless grant program.
• Sec. 20303: Support for the first three commercial-scale implementations of transformative industrial technologies: Authorizes DOE grants and loan guarantees for no more than three projects per technology category, with grant shares of up to 60, 45 and 30 percent of costs for the first, second and third project.
• Sec. 30229A: Prohibition on certain assistance to the Philippines: Bars funds made available by this Act from being used for assistance to the Philippine National Police until the Secretary of State makes certain certifications to Congress, with a presidential waiver of up to 180 days at a time.
• Sec. 30253: Narcotics trafficking in Latin America and the Caribbean: Sets out a sense of Congress on narcotics trafficking and financial crimes in Latin America and the Caribbean, including that the United States should apply targeted financial sanctions on individuals engaged in money laundering that fosters trafficking.
• Sec. 30272: Increasing the competitiveness of the United States in Africa: Requires a multi-year strategy for increasing U.S. economic competitiveness and improving the investment climate in Africa, plus a Comptroller General review of embassy staffing in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Sec. 30326: Modification of authority of the President under the Export Control Reform Act of 2018: Amends the President's authority under the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 by inserting "security, or" before "intelligence" in section 1753(a)(2)(F).
• Sec. 30601: Ensuring national security and economic priorities with the People’s Republic of China and other countries account for environmental issues and climate change: States findings, a sense of Congress and purposes on global climate change and climate diplomacy, with some provisions about the People's Republic of China, and requires an annual State Department briefing on the PRC's climate commitments.
• Sec. 71202: Sense of Congress: States the sense of Congress on ocean and coastal data collection, supercomputing capacity and named ocean observing networks and programs.
• Sec. 71901: Sense of Congress: States the sense of Congress that the U.S. should work with international partners on wildlife poaching and trafficking and that the Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking should be reauthorized.
• Sec. 10704: Interagency working group: Amends the Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act to rename the subcommittee an interagency working group, add agencies, and create a 24-member Ocean Acidification Advisory Board with seats for named regional networks and industry groups, exempt from the Federal Advisory Committee Act section 14.
• Sec. 61301: In general: Adds a Securities Exchange Act section requiring issuers of certain exempt securities offerings of $25,000,000 or more to disclose issuer identity, owners, and intended use of proceeds, and requires quarterly reports to Congress on issuers incorporated in or investing in the People's Republic of China. ($25,000,000)
• Sec. 71302: Definitions: Defines terms for the climate change education title, including climate change education, climate literacy, climate justice, environmental justice, environmental justice community and green economy.

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• Sec. 10312: Hands-on learning opportunities in STEM education: Directs National Science Foundation awards for hands-on STEM learning to eligible nonprofit programs, defined to include programs that span prekindergarten through high school and are available in every State.
• Sec. 103002: Additional exceptions to exemptions for de minimis treatment under the Tariff Act of 1930: Bars duty-free de minimis admission of articles whose country of origin is both a nonmarket economy country and a country on the priority watch list.
• Sec. 107120: Dioxosilane spherical particles (mean particle size 0.046–0.054 mm): Sets a duty-free temporary tariff treatment through 12/31/2023 for amorphous silicon dioxide microspheres defined by a narrow set of importer-certified particle size, uniformity, resistance and surface-area specifications.
• Sec. 107811: Suitcases with outer surface of aluminum with built-in zipper locks: Suspends the duty (rate listed as Free) through 12/31/2023 on aluminum-surfaced suitcases with built-in zipper locks of a type compliant with Transportation Security Administration standards and keyed to a universal master tool made and patented in the United States.
• Sec. 108076: Luggage locks of base metal, packaged for retail sale: Sets the temporary duty at Free through 12/31/2023 for base-metal luggage locks packaged for retail sale that are keyed to a universal master tool made and patented in the United States.
• Sec. 108195: Cell box assemblies, weighing 36 kg or more but not over 49 kg: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for lithium-ion battery cell boxes of a stated energy density and weight range.
• Sec. 108196: Cell box assemblies NX: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for lithium-ion battery cell boxes of a stated energy density and weight range.
• Sec. 108197: Food processors with a capacity greater than 2.9 liters but not exceeding 3.1 liters: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for domestic food processors defined by capacity and a specific button and lid design.
• Sec. 108198: Food processors with a capacity greater than 1.6 liters but not exceeding 2.2 liters: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for domestic food processors defined by capacity and a specific button and lid design.
• Sec. 108199: Cordless hand blenders: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for cordless handheld blending devices defined by a list of specific design features.
• Sec. 108200: Cordless hand mixers: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for cordless handheld food mixers defined by specific handle and stand features.
• Sec. 108201: Corded hand blenders: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for corded handheld blending devices defined by housing and blending arm features.
• Sec. 108202: Burr coffee grinders: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for burr coffee grinders defined by a detailed list of physical features.
• Sec. 108207: Spiralizing food processors with a capacity equal to or greater than 2.36 liters but not exceeding 2.64 liters: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for domestic food processors defined by capacity, lid and attachment features.
• Sec. 108208: Spiralizing food processors with a capacity equal to or greater than 2.83 liters but not exceeding 3.07 liters: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for domestic food processors defined by capacity, locking arm, spout and attachment features.
• Sec. 108212: Integrated baby food making systems: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for baby food making systems defined by a list of components with stated capacities.
• Sec. 108213: Electric juice mixers and grinders: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for combination grinder, juicer and mixer units defined by jar count, size and lid design.
• Sec. 108217: Ultrasonic cool/warm mist humidifiers with aromatherapy: Sets the temporary duty rate to 0.8% instead of the current rate, through 12/31/2023, for ultrasonic humidifiers defined by exact base dimensions, weight and value range.
• Sec. 108220: Ceramic bowls: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for ceramic mixer bowls defined by a base designed to interlock with a stand mixer.
• Sec. 108223: Stainless steel bowls for certain electromechanical stand food mixers, with capacity greater than 4.2 liters but not exceeding 4.8 liters: Sets the temporary duty rate to 0.7%, through 12/31/2023, for stainless steel mixer bowls defined by a base that interlocks with a stand mixer.
• Sec. 108224: Stainless steel bowls for certain electromechanical stand food mixers, with capacity greater than 2.8 liters but not exceeding 3.4 liters: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for stainless steel mixer bowls defined by a base that interlocks with a stand mixer.
• Sec. 108225: Stainless steel bowls for certain electromechanical stand food mixers, with capacity greater than 5.6 liters but not exceeding 8.6 liters: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for stainless steel mixer bowls defined by side brackets that interlock with a stand mixer arm.
• Sec. 108227: Glass bowls for certain electromechanical stand food mixers: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for glass mixer bowls defined by a base designed to interlock with a stand mixer.
• Sec. 108238: Low-profile microwave ovens with electronic opening mechanism and integral range hood: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for low-profile microwave ovens with range hoods defined by exact width, fan count and opening mechanism.
• Sec. 108239: Low-profile microwave ovens with push button opening mechanism and integral range hood: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for low-profile microwave ovens with range hoods defined by exact width, fan count and push-button opening.
• Sec. 108240: Low-profile microwave ovens with electronic opening mechanism and without a range hood: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for microwave ovens without range hoods defined by exact capacity, turntable size and opening mechanism.
• Sec. 108242: Automatic drip coffee makers: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for automatic drip coffee makers defined by the placement of the display, controls and brew button.
• Sec. 108243: Espresso machines: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for espresso makers defined by counts of indicator lights, buttons and temperature sensors.
• Sec. 108245: Single-service coffee makers with milk frothers: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for single-serve capsule coffee machines defined by loading lever material and a fold-up milk frother base.
• Sec. 108247: Electric coffee makers for brewing capsules: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for capsule-only coffee machines defined by loading lever material and reservoir size.
• Sec. 108254: Electric toasters with even-toast feature: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for toasters defined by exact outer dimensions and slot length.
• Sec. 108257: 2- and 4-slot toasters, not having a button to keep toaster contents warm after toasting: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for toasters defined by button, knob and shading-option counts and excluded features.
• Sec. 108258: 2-slot toasters, with a button to keep toaster content warm after toasting: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for two-slot toasters defined by button, knob and shading-option features.
• Sec. 108264: Contoured heating pads: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for heating pads defined by exact dimensions, strap length and a value cap.
• Sec. 108266: Heating pads: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for heating pads defined by exact weight, dimensions and cover material.
• Sec. 108305: Front tire splash guards for vehicles: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for front tire splash guards defined by an exact material composition.
• Sec. 108306: Rear tire splash guards for vehicles: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for rear tire splash guards defined by an exact material composition.
• Sec. 108307: Automatic gear boxes: Sets the temporary duty rate to 1.5%, through 12/31/2023, for automatic gear boxes defined by speed count and torque rating, excluding goods in another named heading.
• Sec. 108314: Expansion chambers: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for expansion chambers defined by approximate exact dimensions and a welding design.
• Sec. 108344: Electronic temperature indicators, weighing 14.2 g: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for single-use temperature data monitors defined by exact housing size and weight.
• Sec. 108345: Electronic temperature indicators, weighing 64.4 g: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for single-use temperature data monitors defined by exact dimensions and weight.
• Sec. 108346: Electronic temperature indicators, weighing 430 g: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for multi-sensor data monitors defined by exact dimensions, battery rating and weight.
• Sec. 108347: Global cargo trackers, weighing 660 g: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for cargo tracking data monitors defined by exact dimensions, battery rating and weight.
• Sec. 108348: Temperature data monitors, weighing 115 g: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for data monitors defined by exact housing size, cellular network type and weight.
• Sec. 108349: Temperature data monitors, weighing 138.9 g: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for data monitors defined by exact housing size, cellular network type and weight.
• Sec. 108350: Temperature data monitors, weighing 133.2 g: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for data monitors defined by exact housing size, cellular network type and weight.
• Sec. 108352: Wired remote controllers: Sets the temporary duty rate to Free, through 12/31/2023, for fan coil thermostats defined by exact dimensions and button count.
• Sec. 110003: Freight Rail Innovation Institute: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a Freight Rail Innovation Institute and authorizes $120,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026. The selection considerations favor a site with legacy rail infrastructure on a redeveloped brownfield near a locomotive manufacturer, a university and a short line or regional railroad.
• Sec. 10103: Biological and environmental research: Directs the coastal zone research program to build on existing research and development infrastructure supported by the Department, including the Department's existing marine and coastal research lab.

Funds a specific named project or event (19)

• Sec. 10102: Basic energy sciences program: Directs and authorizes funding for upgrades to named Department of Energy facilities, including the Advanced Photon Source ($101,000,000 for fiscal year 2022), the Spallation Neutron Source, the Advanced Light Source and the Linac Coherent Light Source II.
• Sec. 10105: Fusion energy research: Amends fusion energy research authorities, including construction of a Material Plasma Exposure Experiment facility, an upgrade to the Matter in Extreme Conditions endstation at the Linac Coherent Light Source, and ITER construction at $300,000,000 for fiscal year 2022, each with its own authorization.
• Sec. 10106: High energy physics program: Directs support for construction of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility, Proton Improvement Plan II and Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4, with a separate authorization for each for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
• Sec. 10107: Nuclear physics program: Directs support for construction of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams ($2,000,000 for fiscal year 2022) and an Electron Ion Collider, with annual authorizations for the collider of $101,000,000 to $305,000,000 through fiscal year 2026.
• Sec. 10115: National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory: Allows the Office of Science to allocate funds authorized under this title to the National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory, if consistent with the purpose of the authorization.
• Sec. 10211: Authorization of appropriations: Authorizes NIST appropriations for fiscal years 2022 through 2026, including $22,000,000 in fiscal year 2022 to investigate a named building collapse in Surfside, Florida. ($22,000,000)
• Sec. 10311: Recognition of the Arecibo Observatory: Expresses the sense of Congress acknowledging the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory telescope and encourages agencies to explore strengthening and expanding the observatory's role in Puerto Rico; no dollar amount is stated.
• Sec. 10751: Foundation for Energy Security and Innovation: Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a nonprofit "Foundation for Energy Security and Innovation" and authorizes not less than $1,500,000 for fiscal year 2022, $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2023, and $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2026.
• Sec. 30204: Establishment of Quad Intra-Parliamentary Working Group: Authorizes $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2025 for the United States Group of the Quad Intra-Parliamentary Working Group, split half to the House delegation and half to the Senate delegation. ($1,000,000)
• Sec. 30212: Taiwan Fellowship Program: Creates a Taiwan Fellowship Program and authorizes appropriations to the American Institute in Taiwan of $2,900,000 for fiscal year 2022 and $2,400,000 for fiscal year 2023 and each year after.
• Sec. 30219: Authorization of appropriations for the Fulbright-Hays Program: Authorizes $105,500,000 over five years for the Fulbright-Hays Program and nullifies section 3(i) of Executive Order No. 13936, which ended Fulbright exchanges with China and Hong Kong. ($105,500,000)
• Sec. 30219A: Supporting independent media and countering disinformation: Authorizes $100,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for the United States Agency for Global Media, of which not less than $70,000,000 goes as a grant to Radio Free Asia language services. ($70,000,000)
• Sec. 30219B: Global Engagement Center: Extends the Global Engagement Center's authority to December 31, 2027 and authorizes $150,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 for it to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation. ($150,000,000)
• Sec. 30219F: Liu Xiaobo Fund for Study of the Chinese Language: Establishes a fund named for Liu Xiaobo at the Department of State to pay for study of Chinese and other languages of China, and authorizes $10,000,000 per year for it. ($10,000,000)
• Sec. 30310: Development and deployment of internet freedom and Great Firewall circumvention tools for the people of Hong Kong: Authorizes $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 and 2023 to the Open Technology Fund of the United States Agency for Global Media for Hong Kong internet freedom grants, and $10,000,000 for each of those years to a State Department office. ($5,000,000)
• Sec. 70205: Fees: Allows fees to be collected from charter vessel operators guiding recreational Pacific halibut anglers in two named regulatory areas, to fund the Recreational Quota Entity program, halibut quota purchases, and halibut research.
• Sec. 70401: Reauthorization of Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000: Rewrites the Coral Reef Conservation Act. It lets NOAA enter an agreement with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to hold and administer a Coral Reef Stewardship Fund and transfer appropriated funds to it. It also names two cooperative institutes and sets a $100,000 base block grant for the named covered States.
• Sec. 90303: Sustaining the Truman Foundation and the Madison Foundation: Changes how the Truman Memorial Scholarship Fund and James Madison Memorial Fellowship Trust Fund are invested, and replaces a $30,000,000 authorization with such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2022 and each later year. ($30,000,000)
• Sec. 10104: Advanced scientific computing research program: Directs upgrades to the Energy Sciences Network user facility and supports the Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, with authorizations starting at $21,000,000 for fiscal year 2022.

Different amount for specific places or groups (14)

• Sec. 10305: Broadening participation: Raises the number of Presidential awards for mathematics and science teaching from 108 to 110 and requires at least one awardee from each of four named territories.
• Sec. 10641: Regional Innovation Capacity: Creates the Regional Technology and Innovation Hub program with an initial award cap of $150,000,000 per hub. It sets a higher Federal cost share for rural or underserved communities (up to 90 percent) and for consortia led by a Tribal government (up to 100 percent) than the general 80 percent.
• Sec. 20307: State flex-tech energy program: Creates a flex-tech energy program for manufacturers funded by formula to State energy agencies, but sets aside not less than 5 percent of each year's funds for Indian Tribes or for manufacturers in Indian Country; authorizes $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
• Sec. 30299C: Climate resilient development in the Pacific Islands: Authorizes $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for a climate-resilient development strategy limited to the Pacific Islands. ($50,000,000)
• Sec. 30299G: Emergency preparedness initiative for the Pacific Islands: Authorizes $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for an emergency preparedness initiative limited to the Pacific Islands. ($40,000,000)
• Sec. 30299I: Pacific Islands leadership development initiative: Authorizes $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for a leadership program for young leaders from the Pacific Islands, and allows grants of up to $50,000 to individual young leaders. ($10,000,000)
• Sec. 30302: Authorization of appropriations for promotion of democracy in Hong Kong: Authorizes $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 for the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor to promote democracy in Hong Kong. ($10,000,000)
• Sec. 30303: Hong Kong people’s freedom and choice: Creates temporary protected status, refugee and special immigrant routes for Hong Kong residents, caps special immigrants at 5,000 principal aliens per year for five fiscal years, and exempts them from the usual numerical limits.
• Sec. 90401: Telecommunications workforce training grant program: Creates a Department of Labor telecommunications workforce training grant program and requires at least 30 percent of grant funds to go to historically Black colleges or universities and at least 30 percent to Tribal Colleges or Universities; authorizes $100,000,000 for fiscal years 2023 through 2028.
• Sec. 90601: Dr. David Satcher cybersecurity education grant program: Directs the Director of NIST to award at least 50 percent of cybersecurity education grant funds to historically Black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions; the program is named for an individual.
• Sec. 107994: Natural stone limestone tiles: Sets a duty-free rate through 12/31/2023 for natural stone limestone tiles of a stated size that were quarried from India.
• Sec. 107995: Natural stone marble tiles: Sets a 1% duty rate through 12/31/2023 for natural stone marble tiles of stated sizes that were quarried from the named countries.
• Sec. 10510: Tribal Colleges and Universities Program: Adds a National Science Foundation grant program for computer science education at tribal colleges and universities and authorizes $2,000,000 in each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for it. ($2,000,000)
• Sec. 10533: Research and capacity building: Directs National Science Foundation grants for research and capacity building at HBCUs, TCUs, and MSIs, allows up to five MSI Centers of Innovation, and authorizes $170,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 rising to $190,000,000 for fiscal year 2026.

Exception or delay for a subset (13)

• Sec. 10252: Update to manufacturing extension partnership: Allows non-competitive awards or contracts to Manufacturing Extension Partnership Centers, instead of competitive awards, when the targeted market is limited geographically or in scope and five or fewer States have Centers serving it.
• Sec. 10304: STEM education: Within a broad set of NSF STEM education provisions, waives for 5 years the cost-sharing requirements for the Major Research Instrumentation Program and for teaching fellowships in the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program.
• Sec. 10307: Research infrastructure: Lets the Director waive the cost-sharing requirement for helium conservation measures for a subset of institutions, namely non-Ph.D.-granting ones and Ph.D.-granting ones outside the top 100 in federal research funding.
• Sec. 30306: Uyghur human rights protection: Directs the State Department to designate certain residents of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as Priority 2 refugees and exempts them from the yearly numerical limits on refugee admissions.
• Sec. 70204: Exception: Creates an exception to the driftnet fishing prohibition for large-scale driftnet fishing within the exclusive economic zone using nets under 2.5 kilometers with a mesh size of 14 inches or greater, conducted within 5 years of enactment.
• Sec. 71103: Shark fin sales elimination: Bans possessing, selling or buying shark fins, and exempts fresh or frozen unprocessed fins and tails of smooth dogfish and spiny dogfish from the ban.
• Sec. 90302: Confucius Institutes: Bars institutions with agreements with a Confucius Institute from certain Higher Education Act funds unless conditions are met, and exempts institutions that have met a Department of Defense waiver requirement.
• Sec. 101115: Requirements for certain territories: Directs the Secretary to set requirements that modify the trade adjustment assistance chapter, including trade readjustment allowance eligibility and administrative expense limits, for four named territories.
• Sec. 102204: Asset requirements applicable to nonresident importers: Requires nonresident importers to hold U.S. assets and a bond to cover potential duties, but exempts importers that are validated Tier 2 or Tier 3 participants in a named customs security program or that meet an equivalent-collection-ability finding.
• Sec. 20203: Critical supply chain monitoring program: Within a supply chain monitoring program that authorizes $500,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2027, the disclosure protections for voluntarily submitted supply chain information do not apply to submissions in applications for the semiconductor financial assistance program.
• Sec. 61003: Exercise of title I authorities in relation to contracts by State, local, or Tribal governments: Lets the President exclude from Defense Production Act prioritization or allocation authority certain materials ordered by State, local, or Tribal governments that are scheduled for delivery within 15 days, and requires notice within 24 hours of any exercise.
• Sec. 10001: Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Fund: Within the CHIPS appropriations, it sets aside $2,000,000,000 of fiscal year 2022 funds for assistance to covered entities for mature technology node semiconductor production, with eligibility and priority rules for those entities. ($2,000,000,000)
• Sec. 90103: Amendment: Sets a minimum of 2,000 on-the-job learning hours for time-based apprenticeship programs, but lets sponsors in nontraditional apprenticeship occupations put forward an alternative requirement that the Secretary and registration agency may accept.

Changes a government process (6)

• Sec. 10309: Administrative amendments: Changes National Science Foundation administrative processes: Inspector General reviews of National Science Board Sunshine Act compliance become as needed based on a triennial risk assessment, and the indicators report date moves from January 15 to March 15.
• Sec. 20302: Solar component manufacturing supply chain assistance: Requires any employer receiving funds under the solar component program to recognize a labor organization on a showing of majority sign-up, and sets bargaining, mediation and binding arbitration steps that apply notwithstanding the National Labor Relations Act.
• Sec. 80101: Basic Research: Bars any agency awarding a Federal research grant from disclosing, publicly or privately, the identity of grant review panel members to the applicant.
• Sec. 106004: Authority of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to consolidate, modify, or reorganize Customs revenue functions: Lets the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection consolidate, modify, or reorganize customs revenue functions and personnel positions, and changes limits on staffing reductions.
• Sec. 10244: Hiring critical technical experts: Replaces NIST's appointment provision. It lets the Secretary appoint scientific, engineering and professional personnel and set their pay, notwithstanding other laws on appointment and compensation, for up to 15 personnel, with the authority expiring after 5 years.
• Sec. 70505: Working groups: Provides that the Federal Advisory Committee Act does not apply to working groups established by the Coral Reef Task Force co-chairs.

Condition defined by a narrow set of criteria (1)

• Sec. 10113: State-owned enterprises prohibition: Bars the Secretary from awarding contracts, subcontracts, grants or loans under this title to entities tied to a corporation based in a country meeting three listed trade-designation criteria, with a waiver for minority relationships.

What it does

• Sec. 10001: Appropriates $24,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 to the CHIPS for America Fund, including $19,000,000,000 for semiconductor incentive programs under section 9902 of Public Law 116–283, with further yearly appropriations through fiscal year 2026.
• Sec. 10303: Authorizes $12,504,890,000 for the National Science Foundation for fiscal year 2022 and sets amounts for research, education and human resources, and facilities construction.
• Sec. 10403: Establishes a National Engineering Biology Research and Development Initiative run by the President through the Office of Science and Technology Policy, with an interagency committee and a coordination office.
• Sec. 10641: Requires the Secretary of Commerce to carry out a Regional Technology and Innovation Hub Program that designates at least 10 consortia as hubs and awards strategy development and implementation grants.
• Sec. 20204: Authorizes $45,000,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2027 for a fund supporting grants, loans and loan guarantees for critical goods and supply chain activities.
• Sec. 60101: Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct U.S. representatives at the World Bank Group and Asian Development Bank to vote against assistance to China unless the Secretary certifies specified conditions to Congress.
• Sec. 61402: Bars banking regulators from taking adverse action against a depository institution solely because it serves a cannabis-related legitimate business or service provider, and shields those institutions from Federal liability and forfeiture for providing financial services.
• Sec. 70401: Reauthorizes the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 with a national coral reef resilience strategy, coral reef action plans, block grants to covered States, and $38,000,000 authorized for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
• Sec. 80302: Creates W nonimmigrant status for entrepreneurs of start-up entities and essential employees, and sets requirements for an immigrant entrepreneur classification.
• Sec. 90103: Replaces the National Apprenticeship Act, establishing an Office of Apprenticeship, program standards and registration, and authorizing grants of $400,000,000 for fiscal year 2023 rising to $800,000,000 for fiscal year 2027.
• Sec. 90305: Establishes a job training Federal Pell Grant program for eligible short-term career and technical education programs beginning with the award year starting July 1, 2024.
• Sec. 110001: Authorizes $4,000,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2025 for the Department of Commerce to run the Recompete Pilot Program, which provides grants with a term of 10 fiscal years to areas with a set prime-age employment gap.
• Sec. 150003: Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to publish a database of agricultural lands owned by foreign persons, updated every 90 days, and to send Congress annual reports on foreign investment in agricultural land.
• Sec. 180007: Bars carriers, marine terminal operators and ocean transportation intermediaries from retaliating against a shipper, shipper's agent or motor carrier, and bars demurrage or detention charges unless accompanied by a certification of compliance with Commission rules.

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