S. 3463: COVID Act of 2022
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S. 3463: COVID Act of 2022
117th Congress · introduced 2022-01-10 · International Affairs · Latest: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 243.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2022-01-10 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 243. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
COVID Act of 2022
Plain summary
Coronavirus Origin Validation, Investigation, and Determination Act of 2022 or the COVID Act of 2022 This bill requires the President to impose sanctions and take other actions related to COVID-19 if certain conditions are not met. Specifically, if the President is unable to certify within 90 days of this bill's enactment that China's government has allowed a transparent international forensic investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and certain laboratories in the city of Wuhan, the President must impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions against (1) individuals with leadership positions in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); and (2) officials of the Chinese Communist Party, China's military, or China's State Council who were involved in concealing or restricting information about the initial COVID-19 outbreak in China. If the certification cannot be made, the President must also (1) prohibit federal funding for collaborative projects between U.S.-based researchers and CAS researchers in any academic field, and (2) prohibit U.S.-based researchers and institutions that receive federal funding from engaging in certain research on viruses with individuals or institutions based in China.
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] · 19 cosponsors
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Cosponsors on this site
Tim Scott (R-SC), John Cornyn (R-TX), Rick Scott (R-FL), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Steve Daines (R-MT), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), James Lankford (R-OK), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), John Kennedy (R-LA), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY), John Hoeven (R-ND), Roger F. Wicker (R-MS)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-117s3463.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/117/s>
Record fed-us-cong117-s3463 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117