S 4901
116th Congress
Senate
International Affairs
Ensuring American Leadership over International Standards Act of 2020
Introduced: November 16, 2020
Introduced by:
Cortez Masto, Catherine
Democratic
· Nevada
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Became law
Nov 16, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Nov 16, 2020
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Ensuring American Leadership over International Standards Act of 2020
This bill requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology to contract with a nongovernmental entity to conduct a study on (1) the activities of China's government and China's industrial entities within international standards bodies, and (2) how such actions affect the development and setting of international standards for emerging technologies.
The entity shall report the study to Congress.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Committees of jurisdiction
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