“A bill 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 conducting or funding—directly, indirectly, or through grants, contracts, or other vehicles—biomedical research involving vertebrate animal testing in facilities or by entities located in, owned, or controlled by China (including Hong Kong), Iran, North Korea, Russia, or any other country designated by the Secretary (in consultation with the Secretaries of State and Defense) as a foreign country of concern. It requires the Secretary to submit a report with detailed reasoning for each such designation to the chair and ranking member of specified congressional committees (i.e., Senate and House Appropriations; Senate HELP and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; House Energy and Commerce and Homeland Security) within 60 days.