Claim · 2023-07-18 · event · Stated in source · Supported

H.R. 4702 of the 118th Congress, the Securing Gene Synthesis Act, was introduced in the House of Representatives on 18 July 2023 by Representative Anna G. Eshoo, referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and referred to its Subcommittee on Health on 21 July 2023.

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→ introduced → H.R. 4702 (118th Congress): Securing Gene Synthesis Act, as introduced in the House

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Claim and evidence

introduced ↓H.R. 4702 (118th Congress): Securing Gene Synthesis Act, as introduced in the House

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Date: 2023-07-18 · event

Scope and limitsIntroduction is not passage or enactment. The bill text was not retrieved, so no provision of H.R. 4702 is recorded; the Senate bill's status record describes H.R. 4702 as an identical bill, identified as such by the Congressional Research Service, and that description is the Research Service's, not Selekoa's comparison.

The evidence 01

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Bill status record for H.R. 4702 (118th Congress), Securing Gene Synthesis Act

Library of Congress and U.S. House of Representatives, published as bulk data via govinfo.gov (GPO) · Publication date unknown

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“Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.”

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

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Authors: Library of Congress and U.S. House of Representatives, published as bulk data via govinfo.gov (GPO)
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 a4af5fb0e9fab5c157bec268e13da1ab4bb20862c21d7de65f279eb2797122c6). The status record as served on 2026-10-28, carrying updateDate 2025-12-05. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 a4af5fb0e9fab5c157bec268e13da1ab4bb20862c21d7de65f279eb2797122c6, the same bytes).
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Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Library of Congress and U.S. House of Representatives, published as bulk data via govinfo.gov (GPO), “Bill status record for H.R. 4702 (118th Congress), Securing Gene Synthesis Act”.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, AI and biosecurity (research/ai-bio). The quotation (9 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The record gives introducedDate 2023-07-18, originChamber House, title 'Securing Gene Synthesis Act', sponsor Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-16], and a latest action of 21 July 2023, 'Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.' A cross-family machine check (2026-10-30, item 27) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review.

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Relation. A legislative chamber records the introduction of a bill on the stated date (schema 2.19). Introduction is not passage or enactment.

Date. Introduction date in the official bill-status record; the referral to the Subcommittee on Health is dated 21 July 2023 and is the latest action the record lists. The date is the date of introduction; a status record carries no date basis, as the dataset’s own legislative status records do not.

Record ID ab-scr-hr4702-introduced