S.Amdt. 1672

SA 1672. Mr. LEE 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:

In section 6105(a), strike ``to assess the extent to which
the Department'' and all that follows through the period at
the end and insert the following: ``to assess--
(1) the extent to which the Department of Health and Human
Services (referred to in this section as the ``Department'')
utilizes or provides funding to entities that utilize such
funds for human genomic sequencing services or genetic
services (as such term is defined in section 201(6) of the
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (42 U.S.C.
2000ff(6))) provided by entities, or subsidiaries of such
entities, organized under the laws of a country or countries
of concern, in the estimation of the Director of National
Intelligence or the head of another Federal department or
agency, as appropriate; and
(2) the purpose and intentions of human genomic sequencing
services or genetic services as it relates to each
organization receiving Federal funds.
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