HR 1468
Advanced toward a vote
Establishes a Justice Department program called the CCP Initiative to counter Chinese Communist Party and PRC efforts to steal trade secrets, hack, and spy on U.S. businesses, universities, and research.
Official title: Protect America’s Innovation and Economic Security from CCP Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
21-FEB-2025
Referred
21-FEB-2025
Approved by committee
26-MAR-2026
Reported
15-JUN-2026
On the calendar
15-JUN-2026
- Creates the CCP Initiative within the Justice Department's National Security Division, with resources set aside for it and kept separate from other nation-state programs except in exceptional circumstances.
- Directs the initiative to prioritize prosecuting trade secret theft, hacking, and economic espionage by PRC-linked actors, and to review foreign investments that raise PRC-related risks, including as part of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
- Requires an annual report to four House and Senate committees on the initiative's progress, resources, and an assessment of economic losses from PRC hacking and trade secret theft.
- Takes effect on enactment and ceases to be in effect six years later.
Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Reported to House, 15-JUN-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Judiciary Committee (House)
Crime and Law Enforcement
■ 13 R
13 Republicans