[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5004 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5004

    To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to 
authorize rewards regarding the identification of credible information 
       regarding the origins of COVID-19, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 10, 2021

  Mr. Rose (for himself, Mr. Babin, Mrs. Harshbarger, Mr. Higgins of 
Louisiana, and Mr. DesJarlais) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to 
authorize rewards regarding the identification of credible information 
       regarding the origins of COVID-19, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Unmasking the Origins of COVID-19 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR REWARD.

    Subsection (b) of section 36 of the State Department Basic 
Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2708) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (12), by striking ``or'' after the 
        semicolon at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (13), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(14) the identification of--
                    ``(A) the origins of COVID-19;
                    ``(B) any person or entity involved in the coverup 
                of the origins of COVID-19; or
                    ``(C) nonpublic information related to gain of 
                function research conducted at or in connection with 
                Chinese laboratories, including the Wuhan Institute of 
                Virology, with respect to coronaviruses, that has been 
                covered up by the Government of the People's Republic 
                of China or the Chinese Communist Party.''.
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