[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 93 (Thursday, May 27, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3910]
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SA 2104. 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 FROM THE PEOPLE'S
REPUBLIC OF CHINA IN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY.
(a) In General.--Not later than 4 years after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Federal Trade Commission and
the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, in consultation with the
Secretary of Commerce, shall submit to the appropriate
congressional committees, the Secretary of Health and Human
Services, and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the
United States a report on foreign investment from the
People's Republic of China in the pharmaceutical industry of
the United States.
(b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include an assessment of--
(1) the supply chain of the pharmaceutical industry of the
United States and the effect of concentration and reliance on
manufacturing in the People's Republic of China within that
industry;
(2) the effect of foreign investment from the People's
Republic of China in the pharmaceutical industry of the
United States on domestic capacity to produce drugs and
active and inactive ingredients of drugs;
(3) the effect of foreign investment from the People's
Republic of China 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; and
(4) the value and feasibility of providing additional
reports every 4 years to Congress on the matters described in
paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), for the purposes of
strengthening the domestic capacity of the United States to
produce drugs and active and inactive ingredients of drugs.
(c) Preventing Duplication.--The Federal Trade Commission,
the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, and the Secretary of
Commerce shall consult with other Federal agencies to prevent
the duplication of reporting on the domestic drug supply
chain in the development of the report required by subsection
(a).
(d) 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).
(e) 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.
(f) 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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