“To prohibit the use of taxpayer dollars to support animal experimentation in the laboratories of adversarial nations.”
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This section prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from directly or indirectly conducting or funding—through grants, contracts, or other means—biomedical research or experimentation involving testing on vertebrate animals in facilities or by entities located in, owned, or controlled by China (including Hong Kong), Iran, North Korea, Russia, or any other country the Secretary determines, in consultation with the Secretaries of State and Defense, to be a foreign country of concern. The section also requires the Secretary to submit a report with detailed reasoning to the chair and ranking member of specified congressional committees (i.e., Senate and House Appropriations, Senate HELP and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and House Energy and Commerce and Homeland Security Committees) within 60 days of each such determination.