Amendment AA1-AB413

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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE

ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 1, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 413

January 23, 2024 - Offered by Representative Behnke.

AB413-AA1,1,1 At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:

AB413-AA1,1,3 1. Page 2, line 7: delete the material beginning with that line and ending with page 3, line 7, and substitute:

AB413-AA1,1,13 “(b) “Potentially pandemic pathogen” means a virus, bacterium, fungus, or eukaryotic parasite, or any strain or variant of a virus, bacterium, fungus, or eukaryotic parasite, that is likely to pose a severe threat to public health, the capacity of health systems to function, or national security, and that is either likely to be moderately or highly transmissible and likely to be capable of wide and uncontrollable spread in human populations, or is likely to be moderately or highly virulent and likely to cause significant morbidity or mortality in humans. “Potentially pandemic pathogen” includes influenza viruses other than seasonal influenza viruses, sarbecovirus and merbecovirus coronaviruses, henipah viruses, filoviruses, arenaviruses, orthopoxviruses, and the bacterium Yersinia pestis.”.

AB413-AA1,2,3 2. Page 3, line 10: delete “pathogens." and substitute “pathogens or conduct or provide funding to another entity to conduct research on potentially pandemic pathogens that are the product of prior gain of function research.".

AB413-AA1,2,4 3. Page 4, line 1: delete lines 1 to 10 and substitute:

AB413-AA1,2,14 “(b) “Potentially pandemic pathogen” means a virus, bacterium, fungus, or eukaryotic parasite, or any strain or variant of a virus, bacterium, fungus, or eukaryotic parasite, that is likely to pose a severe threat to public health, the capacity of health systems to function, or national security, and that is either likely to be moderately or highly transmissible and likely to be capable of wide and uncontrollable spread in human populations, or is likely to be moderately or highly virulent and likely to cause significant morbidity or mortality in humans. “Potentially pandemic pathogen” includes influenza viruses other than seasonal influenza viruses, sarbecovirus and merbecovirus coronaviruses, henipah viruses, filoviruses, arenaviruses, orthopoxviruses, and the bacterium Yersinia pestis.”.

AB413-AA1,2,17 4. Page 4, line 13: delete “pathogens." and substitute “pathogens or conduct or provide funding to another entity to conduct research on potentially pandemic pathogens that are the product of prior gain of function research.".

AB413-AA1,2,18 5. Page 5, line 8: delete lines 8 to 17 and substitute:

AB413-AA1,3,4 “(c) “Potentially pandemic pathogen” means a virus, bacterium, fungus, or eukaryotic parasite, or any strain or variant of a virus, bacterium, fungus, or eukaryotic parasite, that is likely to pose a severe threat to public health, the capacity of health systems to function, or national security, and that is either likely to be moderately or highly transmissible and likely to be capable of wide and uncontrollable spread in human populations, or is likely to be moderately or highly virulent and likely to cause significant morbidity or mortality in humans. “Potentially pandemic pathogen” includes influenza viruses other than seasonal influenza viruses, sarbecovirus and merbecovirus coronaviruses, henipah viruses, filoviruses, arenaviruses, orthopoxviruses, and the bacterium Yersinia pestis.”.

AB413-AA1,3,7 6. Page 5, line 20: delete “pathogens." and substitute “pathogens or conduct or provide funding to another entity to conduct research on potentially pandemic pathogens that are the product of prior gain of function research.".

AB413-AA1,3,8 (End)