[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4087 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4087

  To prohibit the use of Federal funds to conduct or support certain 
           gain-of-function research by a foreign adversary.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 13, 2023

  Mr. Wenstrup (for himself and Mrs. Lesko) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the use of Federal funds to conduct or support certain 
           gain-of-function research by a foreign adversary.

    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 ``Foreign Adversary Gain-of-Function 
Research Prevention Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL FUNDING FOR CERTAIN GAIN-OF-FUNCTION 
              RESEARCH BY A FOREIGN ADVERSARY.

    (a) In General.--No Federal funds may be made available, whether 
directly or indirectly, or used by an entity, to conduct or support any 
gain-of-function research involving a potential pandemic pathogen by a 
foreign adversary, including--
            (1) China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea; and
            (2) any other country the Secretary of State, in 
        consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Director of 
        National Intelligence, or any other appropriate Federal 
        official, determines to be a foreign adversary for the purposes 
        of this section.
    (b) Funding Freeze for Violations.--If the Secretary of State 
determines that an entity has violated subsection (a), such entity--
            (1) for the 3-year period beginning on the date of such 
        determination, may not receive any award or subaward of a 
        grant, cooperative agreement, loan, or contract from the 
        Department of Health and Human Services; and
            (2) for the 3-year period beginning on the day after the 
        last day of the period described in paragraph (1), may not 
        receive any award of a grant, cooperative agreement, loan, or 
        contract from the Department of Health and Human Services 
        unless the entity agrees, as a condition of receiving such 
        award to--
                    (A) give notice to the Congress before using such 
                award to make any subaward; and
                    (B) include in any such notice the intended 
                recipient and purpose of the subaward.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Gain-of-function research.--The term ``gain-of-function 
        research'' means any research that may be reasonably 
        anticipated to confer an attribute to a pathogen such that the 
        pathogen would have enhanced pathogenicity or transmissibility 
        in mammals, including the creation of a chimera.
            (2) Potential pandemic pathogen.--The term ``potential 
        pandemic pathogen'' means a pathogen that, as a result of any 
        gain-of-function research--
                    (A) is likely more transmissible or likely capable 
                of wide and uncontrollable spread in human populations;
                    (B) is likely more virulent or likely to cause 
                modest or greater morbidity or mortality in humans; or
                    (C) is likely to pose a severe threat to public 
                health, the capacity of the public health systems to 
                function, or national security.
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