S.Amdt. 5783

SA 5783. Mr. MARSHALL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle C of title VII, add the following:

SEC. 753. LIMITATION ON CONDUCTING CERTAIN RESEARCH IN COUNTRIES OF CONCERN.

Beginning not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall prohibit research funded by the Department of Defense conducted in a foreign institution involving pathogens of pandemic potential or biological agents or toxins listed pursuant to section 351A(a)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262a(a)(1)) located in a country of concern, as determined by the Director of National Intelligence or the head of another relevant Federal agency, as appropriate, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense.