[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 19, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3151]
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SA 1633. Ms. WARREN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to
establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the
National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub
program, to require a strategy and report on economic security,
science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to
establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of title III of division E, add the following:
SEC. 5311. REPORT ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN PHARMACEUTICAL
INDUSTRY.
(a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the
Federal Trade Commission, in consultation with the Secretary
of the Treasury acting through the Committee on Foreign
Investment in the United States (in this section referred to
as the ``Committee''), shall submit to the appropriate
congressional committees, the Secretary of Health and Human
Services, and the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, a report on
foreign investment in the pharmaceutical industry of the
United States.
(b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) An assessment of--
(A) the supply chain of the pharmaceutical industry of the
United States and the effect of concentration and reliance on
foreign manufacturing within that industry;
(B) the effect of foreign investment in the pharmaceutical
industry of the United States on domestic capacity to produce
drugs and active and inactive ingredients of drugs; and
(C) the effect of foreign investment in technologies or
other products for sequencing or storage of DNA, including
genome and exome analysis, in the United States, including
the effect of such investment on the capacity to sequence or
store DNA in the United States.
(2) The number of reviews and investigations conducted by
the Committee, in each of the 10 fiscal years preceding the
year in which the study is conducted, with respect to covered
transactions (as defined in section 721(a) of the Defense
Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4565(a)))--
(A) in the pharmaceutical industry of the United States; or
(B) relating to the sequencing or storage of DNA in the
United States.
(3) A short description of each such review or
investigation, including whether the transaction was approved
or prohibited.
(c) Authority.--The Federal Trade Commission shall have
authority under section 6 of the Federal Trade Commission Act
(15 U.S.C. 46) to conduct the studies required to prepare the
report required by subsection (a).
(d) Publication.--The Federal Trade Commission shall
publish an unclassified summary of the report required by
subsection (a) on a publicly available internet website of
the Commission.
(e) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means--
(1) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs,
the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, the
Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign
Relations, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Financial Services, the Committee on
Energy and Commerce, the Committee on Armed Services, the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
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