[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 88 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3203]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1707. Mr. PAUL (for himself, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Tillis, Mr. 
Tuberville, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Braun) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by him 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH 
                   CONDUCTED IN CHINA.

       (a) In General.--No funds made available to any Federal 
     agency, including the National Institutes of Health and the 
     Department of State, may be used for any gain-of-function 
     research conducted in China.
       (b) Definition of Gain-of-function Research.--In this 
     section, the term ``gain-of-function research'' means any 
     research project that may be reasonably anticipated to confer 
     attributes to influenza, MERS, or SARS viruses such that the 
     virus would have enhanced pathogenicity or transmissibility 
     in mammals.
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