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S. 2400 as introduced would amend section 351A of the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prescribe a regulation requiring gene synthesis providers or manufacturers of gene synthesis equipment to implement screening protocols to detect misuse of de novo gene synthesis products, and to verify or provisionally verify that they adhere to that regulation. Copy claim link
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Provision Required action · provision ID us-securing-gene-synthesis-act-screening-regulation 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 bill as introduced states a proposal, not law: no duty, regulation or verification scheme is established, and the bill did not advance beyond committee referral on the record inspected. The bill's definition of the length at which a product falls within scope is not recorded. The bill's defined 'screening threshold' sets the minimal length of product subject to screening; that definition is a technical screening criterion and is not recorded.
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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 “requiring gene synthesis providers or manufacturers of gene synthesis equipment to implement screening protocols to detect misuse of de novo gene synthesis products” Location in source Sec. 2(1)(C), 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 (23 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 amendment inserts subparagraphs (A) to (F) into section 351A(b)(2); subparagraph (C) is quoted here and subparagraph (D) in the next evidence item. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-30, item 62) re-read the record’s sources and found full support. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
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Source excerpt “verifying or provisionally verifying that gene synthesis providers and manufacturers of gene synthesis equipment adhere to the regulation” Location in source Sec. 2(1)(D), 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 (18 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 verification limb of the statement, which rests on this subparagraph rather than on subparagraph (C). The subparagraph continues "prescribed pursuant to subparagraph (C)"; the quotation stops short of that cross-reference to keep this source within its quotation budget of about 86 words. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-30, item 62) re-read the record’s sources and found full support. 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.
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Date. Provision of the bill as introduced, dated by the publication of the introduced print of 19 July 2023 (the dateline of the print and the date in its govinfo package metadata); introduction in the Senate is the event behind that date. The bill-status record lists no later text version.
Record ID ab-scr-s2400-screening-regulation