Provide technical assistance, training, regulatory guidance, and coordination support to partner governments seeking to protect critical infrastructure, supply chains, and sensitive sectors from malign foreign investment.
Support legislation to provide technical assistance, training, regulatory guidance, and coordination support to partner governments to protect critical infrastructure, supply chains, and sensitive sectors from malign foreign investment.
Occurrences
Evidence
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GovInfo lists S. 4899, the Securing Partner Supply Chains Act, sponsored by Tim Kaine with John Curtis as cosponsor. The latest listed action is June 24, 2026: introduced, read twice, and referred to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
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The introduced bill requires the Secretary of State to establish an Initiative on Foreign Investment Screening. Its duties include technical assistance, training, coordination with U.S. agencies and partner countries, regulatory guidance, information sharing, and addressing risks involving critical infrastructure, sensitive technology, supply chain vulnerabilities, or malign foreign influence.
Assessments
Kaine sponsored S. 4899, the Securing Partner Supply Chains Act, during his current Senate term. The bill text matches the promised substance by creating a foreign investment screening initiative providing technical assistance, training, regulatory guidance, interagency coordination, information sharing, and partner-government support focused on critical infrastructure, supply chains, sensitive technology, and malign foreign influence. Because the promise was to support legislation, not necessarily enact it, sponsorship of matching legislation counts as delivered in the same term.