S.Amdt. 1707

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.