HR 1023 · in committee · significant
RIFA Act
- foreign policy
What this bill does
- Large private colleges must report their investments in countries like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea to the Education Department.
- This applies to private universities with over $6 billion in assets or $250 million in investments of concern.
- The Education Department will publish a searchable database of these reports and can penalize violations by reducing federal student aid eligibility.
Generated by claude-haiku-4-5
Community Threads
Started by Cosponsor
- 01
What investment activities in adversarial nations should trigger mandatory disclosure, and how would colleges distinguish between prohibited investments and legitimate academic or humanitarian engagements?
- 02
How might reduced federal student aid eligibility affect students at universities that don't comply, and does this penalty mechanism create unintended consequences for aid recipients?
- 03
What evidence suggests that requiring colleges to report these investments would meaningfully impact U.S. national security compared to existing government monitoring of financial flows?
Cosponsor writes these to seed civic discussion — they aren't user posts. Sign in to reply.
Sponsor · R-UT-4
Burgess Owens
Citizen cosponsors
0
In Congress
1/ 435
House Reps cosponsoring
Introduced 2025-02-05
Joining the bill
Legislative timeline
2025-02-05 · house · IntroReferral
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
2025-02-05 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
2025-02-05 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
Citizen comments
Sign in to comment on this bill.
No comments yet — be the first.