Defund EcoHealth Alliance Act

Defund EcoHealth Alliance Act

This bill prohibits the award of federal funds to EcoHealth Alliance, Inc (including any subsidiaries or related organizations). This is a nonprofit research organization that studies coronaviruses in bat populations and other environmental health concerns.

The Government Accountability Office must also audit federal funds provided to that organization over the past decade. The audit must include the amount of those funds provided by EcoHealth Alliance to China, the Chinese Communist Party, or the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 494 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 494

To prohibit Federal funding to EcoHealth Alliance, Inc., and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 25, 2023

Mr. Reschenthaler (for himself, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Posey, Mr. Baird, Mr. 
DesJarlais, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Mike Garcia of 
  California, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Greene of Georgia, Mr. Gosar, Mr. 
 Duncan, Mr. Perry, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Jackson of Texas, Mr. Ogles, and 
  Mr. Guest) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
               Committee on Oversight and Accountability

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit Federal funding to EcoHealth Alliance, Inc., and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Defund EcoHealth Alliance Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL FUNDING TO ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE, INC.

    (a) In General.--No funds authorized or appropriated by Federal law 
may be made available for any purpose to EcoHealth Alliance, Inc., 
including any subsidiaries and related organizations that are directly 
controlled by EcoHealth Alliance, Inc., including subgrant or 
subcontract organizations or individuals.
    (b) GAO Study and Report.--Not later than 2 years after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States 
shall conduct a study, and submit a report to Congress, regarding the 
amount of Federal funds awarded to EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. (directly 
or indirectly through grants, contracts, subgrants, subcontracts, or 
any other type of agreement or collaboration), during the 10-year 
period preceding such date of enactment, that were provided, whether 
purposely or inadvertently, to--
            (1) the People's Republic of China;
            (2) the Chinese Communist Party;
            (3) the Wuhan Institute of Virology; or
            (4) any other lab, agency, organization, individual, or 
        instrumentality--
                    (A) that is owned or controlled (directly or 
                indirectly) by any of the entities listed in paragraphs 
                (1) through (3); or
                    (B) located in any foreign nation.
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