Cosponsor
Sign in

HR 1864 · in committee · significant

Risky Research Review Act

What this bill does

  • Creates an independent board to review and approve federal funding for high-risk life sciences research that could threaten public health.
  • Affects researchers, universities, and federal agencies that fund biological research on dangerous pathogens and organisms.
  • Requires entities to attest to research risk levels; agencies must certify attestations and submit proposals to the board for approval.

Generated by claude-haiku-4-5

Community Threads

Started by Cosponsor

  1. 01

    How would the independent board's review process affect the timeline and cost for universities and researchers seeking federal funding for life sciences work?

  2. 02

    What safeguards should exist to prevent the review board from blocking legitimate research that could advance public health or medical treatments?

  3. 03

    Which types of pathogen research does the bill intend to regulate, and how would researchers determine whether their work requires board approval?

Cosponsor writes these to seed civic discussion — they aren't user posts. Sign in to reply.

Sponsor · R-VA-9

H. Morgan Griffith

Citizen cosponsors

0

In Congress

0/ 435

House Reps cosponsoring

Introduced 2025-03-05

Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-03-05 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  2. 2025-03-05 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  3. 2025-03-05 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  4. 2025-03-05 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

Congress.gov ↗

Citizen comments

Sign in to comment on this bill.

No comments yet — be the first.