Bill Text: IA SR5 | 2023-2024 | 90th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A resolution calling on the federal government to investigate the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including whether it was in any way related to taxpayer-funded gain-of-function animal experiments being performed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-13 - Introduced, referred to Rules and Administration. S.J. 555. [SR5 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2023-SR5-Introduced.html
Senate
Resolution
5
-
Introduced
SENATE
RESOLUTION
NO.
5
BY
ALONS
A
Resolution
calling
on
the
federal
government
to
1
investigate
the
origins
of
the
SARS-CoV-2
virus,
2
including
whether
it
was
in
any
way
related
to
3
taxpayer-funded
gain-of-function
animal
experiments
4
being
performed
at
the
Wuhan
Institute
of
Virology.
5
WHEREAS,
the
citizens
of
the
state
of
Iowa
have
6
a
right
to
know
if
wasteful
government
spending
on
7
taxpayer-funded
experiments
on
bats
and
humanized
mice
8
caused
the
death
of
over
1
million
Americans
and
over
9
6.6
million
people
worldwide;
and
10
WHEREAS,
Congress
has
a
duty
to
the
citizens
of
the
11
state
of
Iowa
to
promote
the
general
welfare
and
the
12
President
of
the
United
States
has
a
duty
to
ensure
13
that
the
laws
of
the
United
States
be
faithfully
14
executed;
and
15
WHEREAS,
it
is
well
documented
that
pathogens
16
contained
in
highly
secure
laboratories
around
17
the
world,
including
SARS
viruses
in
China,
have
18
breached
containment
with
deadly
consequences
on
many
19
occasions;
and
20
WHEREAS,
the
United
States
National
Institutes
21
of
Health
has
confirmed
that
between
2014
and
2019
22
it
sent
approximately
$600,000
of
taxpayers’
money
23
to
the
Wuhan
Institute
of
Virology
to
collect
24
coronaviruses
from
wild
bats
and
manipulate
them
in
25
animal
experiments;
and
26
WHEREAS,
the
United
States
Department
of
State
27
expressed
concern
in
2018
about
safety
lapses
at
the
28
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S.R.
5
Wuhan
Institute
of
Virology
and
the
pandemic
threat
1
posed
by
its
bat
coronavirus
experiments;
and
2
WHEREAS,
the
United
States
National
Institutes
of
3
Health
has
confirmed
that
it
funded
gain-of-function
4
animal
experiments
at
the
Wuhan
Institute
of
Virology
5
that
engineered
bat
coronaviruses
to
be
as
much
6
as
10,000
times
more
virulent
than
their
natural
7
counterparts;
and
8
WHEREAS,
a
United
States
senate
committee
on
health,
9
education,
labor,
and
pensions
report
has
determined
10
that
“the
emergence
of
SARS-CoV-2
that
resulted
in
11
the
COVID-19
pandemic
was
most
likely
the
result
of
a
12
research-related
incident”;
and
13
WHEREAS,
in
its
2022
Annual
Threat
Assessment,
14
the
Office
of
the
Director
of
National
Intelligence
15
declared,
“one
intelligence
community
element
assesses
16
with
moderate
confidence
that
the
first
human
infection
17
with
SARS-CoV-2
most
likely
was
the
result
of
a
18
laboratory-associated
incident,
probably
involving
19
experimentation,
animal
handling,
or
sampling
by
the
20
Wuhan
Institute
of
Virology”;
and
21
WHEREAS,
the
United
States
Department
of
Energy
22
which
supervises
respected
national
laboratories,
23
some
of
which
employ
experts
in
the
field
of
advanced
24
biological
experimentation,
recently
assessed
that
the
25
SARS-CoV-2
virus
most
likely
arose
from
a
laboratory
26
leak;
and
27
WHEREAS,
a
growing
majority
of
the
American
public
28
believes
that
the
COVID-19
pandemic
was
caused
by
a
lab
29
leak;
NOW
THEREFORE,
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BE
IT
RESOLVED
BY
THE
SENATE,
That
the
Senate
1
demands
that
the
federal
government
conduct
an
unbiased
2
and
comprehensive
investigation
of
the
origins
of
the
3
SARS-CoV-2
virus,
including
whether
it
resulted
from
a
4
lab
leak
in
Wuhan;
and
5
BE
IT
FURTHER
RESOLVED,
That
the
Senate
demands
that
6
the
federal
government
ensures
that
the
investigation
7
is
conducted
without
influence
by
the
government
8
agencies
and
personnel
involved
in
funding
this
9
research;
and
10
BE
IT
FURTHER
RESOLVED,
That
the
Senate
demands
that
11
the
federal
government
issue
a
final
report
summarizing
12
the
findings
of
the
investigation,
without
redaction,
13
and
make
the
report
available
to
the
citizens
of
the
14
state
of
Iowa
in
its
entirety.
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