Less Bureaucracy, Better International Foreign Gift Transparency Act (HR9602)

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2025-03-10 — Disclose GIFT Act: cross-connection with disclose-gift-act: Both address foreign-gift disclosure in higher ed; Disclose GIFT Act expands to individual researcher reporting with a public database while HR9602 refines institutional Section 117-style disclosure. (novelty: 3)
2025-12-04 — Combating the Lies of Authoritarians in School Systems Act: cross-connection with class-act-k12-foreign-funding-restrictions: Both impose foreign-source funding disclosure regimes on U.S. educational institutions — CLASS Act at the K-12 level focused on PRC/CCP, the Less Bureaucracy bill at the higher-ed foreign-gift level. (novelty: 2)
2026-07-09 — Less Bureaucracy, Better International Foreign Gift Transparency Act: 2026-07-09 — HR9602 introduced and referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce; proposes to improve transparency of foreign gifts to educational institutions while reducing bureaucratic burden. (novelty: 2)