Bill Text: TX HCR28 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Calling on the federal government to conduct an unbiased and comprehensive investigation of the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
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 |
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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. |