[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 88 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3265]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1838. Mr. RISCH 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 appropriate place in title III of division F, 
     insert the following:

     SEC. 63__. PROHIBITION ON SHARING OF INFORMATION RELATING TO 
                   THE MANUFACTURE OF VACCINES.

       (a) In General.--No manufacturer of a vaccine, including 
     any vaccine related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, that was 
     developed in whole or in part with the support of Federal 
     funds may enter into an agreement to share or provide any 
     intellectual property, procedure, machinery, or material for 
     the manufacture of such vaccine with an entity in a foreign 
     country unless the President of the United States certifies 
     that--
       (1) the foreign country is a signatory to, and in full 
     compliance with, the Biological Weapons Convention; and
       (2) the entity in a foreign country that would be a 
     recipient of such intellectual property, procedure, 
     machinery, or material for the manufacture of a vaccine fully 
     complies with the requirements of the Food and Drug 
     Administration or equivalent requirements and procedures for 
     determining the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
       (b) Biological Weapons Convention.--In this section, the 
     term ``Biological Weapons Convention'' means the Convention 
     on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and 
     Stockpiling of Bacteriological and Toxin Weapons and on their 
     Destruction, done at Washington, London, and Moscow, April 
     10, 1972.
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