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1	1	88R9167 TBO-F
2	2	By: Cain H.C.R. No. 28
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5	5	CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
6	6	WHEREAS, The citizens of the State of Texas have the right to
7	7	know if wasteful government spending on taxpayer-funded
8	8	experiments on bats and humanized mice caused the death of over 1
9	9	million Americans and over 6.6 million people worldwide; and
10	10	WHEREAS, The United States Congress has a duty to the
11	11	citizens of the State of Texas to promote the general welfare, and
12	12	the President of the United States has a duty to ensure that the
13	13	laws of the United States be faithfully executed; and
14	14	WHEREAS, It is well documented that pathogens contained in
15	15	highly secure laboratories around the world, including SARS viruses
16	16	in China, have breached containment with deadly consequences on
17	17	many occasions; and
18	18	WHEREAS, The U.S. National Institutes of Health has confirmed
19	19	that, between 2014 and 2019, it sent approximately $600,000 of
20	20	taxpayers' money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to collect
21	21	coronaviruses from wild bats and manipulate them in animal
22	22	experiments; and
23	23	WHEREAS, The U.S. State Department expressed concern in 2018
24	24	about safety lapses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the
25	25	pandemic threat posed by its bat coronavirus experiments; and
26	26	WHEREAS, The National Institutes of Health has confirmed that
27	27	it funded gain-of-function animal experiments at the Wuhan
28	28	Institute of Virology that engineered bat coronaviruses to be as
29	29	much as 10,000 times stronger than their natural counterparts; and
30	30	WHEREAS, A U.S. Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor
31	31	and Pensions report has determined "the emergence of SARS-CoV-2
32	32	that resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic was most likely the result of
33	33	a research-related incident"; and
34	34	WHEREAS, In its 2022 Annual Threat Assessment, the Office of
35	35	the Director of National Intelligence declares, "One Intelligence
36	36	Community element assesses with moderate confidence that the first
37	37	human infection with SARS-CoV-2 most likely was the result of a
38	38	laboratory-associated incident, probably involving
39	39	experimentation, animal handling, or sampling by the Wuhan
40	40	Institute of Virology"; and
41	41	WHEREAS, A growing majority of the American public believes
42	42	that the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by a lab leak; now, therefore,
43	43	be it
44	44	RESOLVED, That the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas
45	45	hereby call on the federal government of the United States to:
46	46	(1) conduct an unbiased and comprehensive investigation of
47	47	the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including whether it resulted
48	48	from a lab leak in Wuhan;
49	49	(2) ensure that the investigation is conducted without
50	50	influence by the government agencies and personnel involved in
51	51	funding this research; and
52	52	(3) issue a final report summarizing the findings of the
53	53	investigation, without redaction, and make the report available to
54	54	the citizens of the State of Texas in its entirety.