Bill Text: TX HCR28 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Concurrent Resolution 28 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Calling on the federal government to conduct an unbiased and comprehensive investigation of the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-02 - Referred to State Affairs [HCR28 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HCR28-Introduced.html

	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.