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Title X: General Provisions

Sec. 1058Prohibition on Department of Defense contracts with certain foreign-owned online tutoring services

TL;DR

Amends existing law relating to prohibition on department of defense contracts with certain foreign-owned online tutoring services.

Statutory text

Section 854 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (Public Law 118—159; 10 U.S.C. 4651 note prec.) is amended—(1)by striking The Secretary and inserting (a) In general—The Secretary;(2)by striking the People’s Republic of China and inserting a country of concern; and(3)by adding at the end the following new subsection:

(b) Country of concern defined. In this section, the term country of concern means any of the following:

(1) China.

(2) Russia.

(3) Iran.

(4) North Korea..