In this chapter:

1. (1) "Company" has the meaning assigned by Section 117.001, Business & Commerce Code.
2. (2) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
3. (3) "Council" means the Higher Education Research Security Council established under Section 51.957.

4. (4) "Foreign adversary" means a country:

   1. (A) identified by the United States Director of National Intelligence as a country that poses a risk to the national security of the United States in at least one of the three most recent Annual Threat Assessments of the U.S. Intelligence Community issued pursuant to Section 108B, National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. Section 3043b); or
   2. (B) designated by the governor after consultation with the director of the Department of Public Safety.
5. (5) "Foreign government" means the government or an agent of a country, nation, or group of nations, or a province or other political subdivision of a country or nation, other than the United States government.

6. (6) "Foreign source" means:

   1. (A) a foreign government or agency of a foreign government;
   2. (B) a legal entity created solely under the laws of a foreign adversary and having its principal place of business in a foreign adversary;
   3. (C) a partnership, association, organization, or other combination of persons, or a subsidiary of such an entity, organized under the laws of and having its principal place of business in a foreign adversary;
   4. (D) a political party of a foreign adversary; or
   5. (E) an agent acting on behalf of an entity described by Paragraph (A), (B), (C), or (D).
7. (7) "Gift" means any gift of money or property.
8. (8) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003, except that the term does not include a public junior college or public technical institute as defined by that section.
9. (9) "Political party" means an organization or combination of individuals whose aim or purpose is, or who are engaged in an activity devoted to, the establishment, control, or acquisition of administration or control of a government, or the furtherance or influencing of the political or public interest, policies, or relations of a government.

Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1071 (H.B. 127), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2025.