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