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  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.