HCR 13

89R990 KSM-F
		By: Cain
  H.C.R. No. 13
  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 89th 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.