[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3832 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3832

    To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and any 
 applicable agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, 
     to make public information relating to the origin of COVID-19.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 14, 2022

 Mr. Braun (for himself and Mr. Hawley) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and any 
 applicable agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, 
     to make public information relating to the origin of COVID-19.

    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 ``COVID-19 Origin Disclosure Act of 
2022''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) identifying the origin of Coronavirus Disease 2019 
        (COVID-19) is critical for preventing a similar pandemic from 
        occurring in the future;
            (2) there is reason to believe the COVID-19 pandemic may 
        have originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology; and
            (3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services has a 
        responsibility to make available to the public as much 
        information as possible about the origin of COVID-19 so the 
        United States and like-minded countries can--
                    (A) identify the origin of COVID-19 as 
                expeditiously as possible, and
                    (B) use that information to take all appropriate 
                measures to prevent a similar pandemic from occurring 
                again.

SEC. 3. PUBLIC RELEASE OF INFORMATION RELATED TO THE ORIGIN OF COVID-
              19.

    Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall--
            (1) publish any and all information relating to potential 
        links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of 
        the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), including--
                    (A) any coordination conducted by the Department of 
                Health and Human Services with entities in China 
                performing research on coronaviruses, including by 
                disclosing any funding of such research by the 
                Department; and
                    (B) any research or literature review produced by 
                employees of the Department of Health and Human 
                Services about the potential origin of COVID-19; and
            (2) submit to Congress a report that contains all of the 
        information described under paragraph (1).
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