[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 91 (Tuesday, May 25, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3447]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2003. Mr. PAUL (for himself, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. 
Marshall, Mr. Braun, and Mr. Tillis) proposed an amendment 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; 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, may be 
     used to conduct gain-of-function research 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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