A bill to amend the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act to require each institution of higher education to certify as part of an application for a research and development award that such institution does not operate certain branch campuses, and for other purposes.

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

2026-04-28

Colleges and universities seeking federal research and development funding would need to certify that they don't operate certain types of branch campuses in order to receive the money. The bill aims to restrict which educational institutions can access these federal research grants based on their campus structure. This would affect universities and research institutions that rely on federal funding for scientific and academic research projects.