Disclose GIFT Act – Foreign Espionage Risk via Higher-Ed Gifts/Contracts
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-04-28 — A bill to amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 to prohibit certain institutions of higher education from receiving research and development awards, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with ndaa-higher-ed-rd-award-prohibition: Parallel efforts to condition federal support on transparency and integrity of foreign relationships in higher education. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-04-28 — A bill to amend the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act to require each institution of higher education to certify as part of an application for a research and development award that such institution does not operate certain branch campuses, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with higher-ed-international-programs-regulation: Complementary approaches to foreign entanglement risk at U.S. universities—one restricts operation of foreign branch campuses as a condition of R&D awards, the other targets disclosure of foreign gifts and contracts. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-06-12 — Think Tank and Nonprofit Foreign Influence Disclosure Act: cross-connection with think-tank-nonprofit-foreign-influence-disclosure: Parallel foreign-influence transparency effort: DISCLOSE GIFT Act targets higher-education foreign gifts/contracts, while HR3966 targets think tanks and nonprofits. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-03-10 — Disclose GIFT Act: Bill introduced would require covered researchers at large federally funded IHEs to annually disclose foreign gifts and contracts, mandate a public searchable database, require foreign-espionage risk management plans with ED enforcement, and direct a GAO coordination study. (novelty: 3)