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S. 2400 as introduced would require that any entity receiving federal funds, and any federal agency, purchase de novo gene synthesis products or gene synthesis equipment only from providers or manufacturers that are verified or provisionally verified under the regulation the bill would require, and would provide for enforcement including the revocation or withholding of federal research funding. Copy claim link
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Provision Required action · provision ID us-securing-gene-synthesis-act-federal-purchase-restriction Subject version Introduced in Senate print (BILLS-118s2400is) · Published 2023-07-19 · Effective date not established Date 2023-07-19 · publication Scope and limits A proposal in a bill as introduced; it binds no purchaser and no provider. The enforcement sentence of the bill cross-refers to subsection (b)(2)(E) of the amended section, which concerns fees; the cross-reference is reproduced as the bill has it and is not interpreted.
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S. 2400, Securing Gene Synthesis Act, as introduced in the Senate (118th Congress) ↗ U.S. Senate via govinfo.gov (GPO) · Publication date unknown
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Source excerpt “to purchase such products and equipment only if such providers or manufacturers are verified or provisionally verified pursuant to subparagraph (D)” Location in source Sec. 2(1)(F), amending section 351A(b)(2) of the Public Health Service Act
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Source details and check notes Authors U.S. Senate via govinfo.gov (GPO) Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 96ff620ba3c73e57186529aa4afadfebbbb4669f1b2988b32bbefaa9ed23ebd4). The 'Introduced in Senate' text version (BILLS-118s2400is), the only text version the bill-status record lists. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 96ff620ba3c73e57186529aa4afadfebbbb4669f1b2988b32bbefaa9ed23ebd4, the same bytes). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution U.S. Senate via govinfo.gov (GPO), “S. 2400, Securing Gene Synthesis Act, as introduced in the Senate (118th Congress)”. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, AI and biosecurity (research/ai-bio). The quotation (21 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 subparagraph applies to any entity receiving Federal funds, or any Federal agency, which purchases such products or equipment. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
S. 2400, Securing Gene Synthesis Act, as introduced in the Senate (118th Congress) ↗ U.S. Senate via govinfo.gov (GPO) · Publication date unknown
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Paraphrase the amendment would add to the enforcement subsection the revocation of federal research funding for an entity found in violation, or the withholding of such funding until the entity demonstrates compliance.
Location in source Sec. 2(2), amending section 351A(e)(1)
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Source details and check notes Authors U.S. Senate via govinfo.gov (GPO) Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 96ff620ba3c73e57186529aa4afadfebbbb4669f1b2988b32bbefaa9ed23ebd4). The 'Introduced in Senate' text version (BILLS-118s2400is), the only text version the bill-status record lists. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 96ff620ba3c73e57186529aa4afadfebbbb4669f1b2988b32bbefaa9ed23ebd4, the same bytes). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution U.S. Senate via govinfo.gov (GPO), “S. 2400, Securing Gene Synthesis Act, as introduced in the Senate (118th Congress)”. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, AI and biosecurity (research/ai-bio). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. Explicit paraphrase, used because this source's quotation budget is about 86 words. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. An exact framework edition, or another document with an exact expression, states one provision: a capability threshold or risk level and its trigger, a required safeguard or action, a decision authority (who decides, recommends, can overrule or is informed), a stated exception, or another statement of its content, such as a licence term or a prospectus statement. The passage records what the document says, not implementation, compliance or effectiveness. Provisions with the same key align across editions of one family.
Date. Provision as the bill stood when introduced in the Senate on 19 July 2023. Dated by the publication of the bill as introduced (the print’s dateline and the govinfo package date), as the schema admits no `introduction` basis; the introduction itself is recorded by recorded separately.
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