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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 301 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize |
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| 6 | 6 | | rewards regarding the identification of credible information regarding |
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| 7 | 7 | | the origins of COVID–19, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY11, 2023 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. R |
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| 11 | 11 | | OSE(for himself, Mr. MASSIE, Mr. BACON, and Mrs. HARSHBARGER) |
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| 12 | 12 | | introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on |
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| 13 | 13 | | Foreign Affairs |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of |
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| 16 | 16 | | 1956 to authorize rewards regarding the identification |
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| 17 | 17 | | of credible information regarding the origins of COVID– |
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| 18 | 18 | | 19, and for other purposes. |
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| 19 | 19 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 20 | 20 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Unmasking the Origins 4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | of COVID–19 Act’’. 5 |
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| 26 | 26 | | •HR 301 IH |
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| 27 | 27 | | SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR REWARD. 1 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Subsection (b) of section 36 of the State Department 2 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2708) is amend-3 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ed— 4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (1) in paragraph (12), by striking ‘‘or’’ after 5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | the semicolon at the end; 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (2) in paragraph (13), by striking the period at 7 |
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| 34 | 34 | | the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 8 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (3) by adding at the end the following new 9 |
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| 36 | 36 | | paragraph: 10 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ‘‘(14) the identification of— 11 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ‘‘(A) the origins of COVID–19; 12 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ‘‘(B) any person or entity involved in the 13 |
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| 40 | 40 | | coverup of the origins of COVID–19; or 14 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ‘‘(C) nonpublic information related to gain 15 |
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| 42 | 42 | | of function research conducted at or in connec-16 |
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| 43 | 43 | | tion with Chinese laboratories, including the 17 |
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| 44 | 44 | | Wuhan Institute of Virology, with respect to 18 |
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| 45 | 45 | | coronaviruses, that has been covered up by the 19 |
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| 46 | 46 | | Government of the People’s Republic of China 20 |
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| 47 | 47 | | or the Chinese Communist Party.’’. 21 |
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