Bars colleges that take part in nonexpressive commercial boycotts of certain major strategic partners of the United States from receiving Higher Education Act funds, and requires colleges seeking Title VI funds to certify each year that they allow students and faculty to join academic programs in those partner countries.

• Makes an institution ineligible for Higher Education Act funds if it engages in a commercial boycott of a major strategic partner that is not based on a valid business reason, with partners defined by reference to Public Law 113-296 and entities linked to those countries.
• Excludes actions covered by the exceptions in the Anti-Boycott Act of 2018 regulations.
• Requires institutions participating or applying for Title VI programs to submit a certification to the Secretary of Education by July 31 each year, and makes an institution that misses the deadline ineligible for Title VI funds in the next fiscal year.
• Requires the certification to commit the institution to let its students and faculty join academic programs in those partner countries, and to let students and faculty from those countries join its programs, on the same terms as programs with other foreign institutions.
• States a sense of Congress that limits on academic cooperation with major strategic partners do not serve U.S. security, stability, and economic vitality; this statement is not binding.

• Education and Workforce Committee (House)
• Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (Senate)

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