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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 See on congress.gov
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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.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4901: Ensuring American Leadership over International Standards Act of 2020. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4901/
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