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SEC. 7806. REPORT ON EFFORTS OF THE CORONAVIRUS RE-
PATRIATION TASK FORCE. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees, the Committee 
on Armed Services of the House of Representatives, and 
the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate a report 
evaluating the efforts of the Coronavirus Repatriation 
Task Force of the Department of State to repatriate 
United States citizens and legal permanent residents in 
response to the 2020 coronavirus outbreak. The report 
shall identify— 
(1) the most significant impediments to repa-
triating such persons; 
(2) the lessons learned from such repatriations; 
and 
(3) any changes planned to future repatriation 
efforts of the Department of State to incorporate 
such lessons learned. 
DIVISION G—GLOBAL PANDEMIC 
PREVENTION AND BIOSECURITY 
SEC. 8001. SHORT TITLE. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Global Pandemic 
Prevention and Biosecurity Act’’.
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SEC. 8002. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It shall be the policy of the United States Govern-
ment to— 
(1) support improved community health, forest 
management, sustainable agriculture, and safety of 
livestock production in developing countries; 
(2) support the availability of scalable and sus-
tainable alternative animal and plant-sourced protein 
for local communities, where appropriate, in order to 
minimize human reliance on the trade in live wildlife 
and raw or unprocessed wildlife parts and deriva-
tives; 
(3) support foreign governments to— 
(A) transition from the sale of such wildlife 
for human consumption in markets and res-
taurants to alternate protein and nutritional 
sources; 
(B) prevent commercial trade in live wild-
life and raw or unprocessed wildlife parts and 
derivatives that risks contributing to zoonotic 
spillover events between animals and humans, 
not to include commercial trade in— 
(i) fish; 
(ii) invertebrates; 
(iii) amphibians; 
(iv) reptiles; or
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(v) the meat of game species— 
(I) traded in markets in coun-
tries with effective implementation 
and 
enforcement 
of 
scientifically 
based, nationally implemented policies 
and legislation for processing, trans-
port, trade, marketing; and 
(II) sold after being slaughtered 
and processed under sanitary condi-
tions; and 
(C) establish and effectively manage pro-
tected and conserved areas, including in tropical 
landscapes, and including indigenous and com-
munity-conserved areas; 
(4) encourage development projects that do not 
contribute to the destruction, fragmentation or deg-
radation of forests or loss of biodiversity; and 
(5) respect the rights and needs of indigenous 
people and local communities dependent on such 
wildlife for nutritional needs and food security. 
SEC. 8003. DEFINITIONS. 
In this division: 
(1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis-
trator’’ means the Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development.
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(2) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
the Committee on Appropriations in the House 
of Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Appropriations in the 
Senate. 
(3) COMMERCIAL WILDLIFE TRADE.—The term 
‘‘commercial wildlife trade’’ means trade in wildlife 
for the purpose of obtaining economic benefit, 
whether in cash or otherwise, that is directed toward 
sale, resale, exchange, or any other form of economic 
use or benefit. 
(4) HUMAN CONSUMPTION.—The term ‘‘human 
consumption’’ means specific use for human food or 
medicine. 
(5) LIVE WILDLIFE MARKET.—The term ‘‘live 
wildlife market’’ means a commercial market that 
sells, processes, or slaughters live or fresh wildlife 
for human consumption in markets or restaurants, 
irrespective of whether such wildlife originated in the 
wild or in a captive situation.
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(6) ONE
HEALTH.—The term ‘‘One Health’’ 
means a collaborative, multisectoral, and trans-dis-
ciplinary approach achieving optimal health out-
comes that recognizes the interconnection between— 
(A) people, wildlife, and plants; and 
(B) the environment shared by such peo-
ple, wildlife, and plants. 
(7) OUTBREAK.—The term ‘‘outbreak’’ means 
the occurrence of disease cases in excess of normal 
expectancy. 
(8) PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY.—The term 
‘‘public health emergency’’ means the public health 
emergency declared by the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services pursuant to section 319 of the Pub-
lic Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) on January 
31, 2020, with respect to COVID–19. 
(9) SPILLOVER
EVENT.—The term ‘‘spillover 
event’’ means the transmission of a pathogen from 
one species to another. 
(10) TASK FORCE.—The term ‘‘Task Force’’ 
means the Global Zoonotic Disease Task Force es-
tablished under section 8006(a). 
(11) USAID.—The term ‘‘USAID’’ means the 
United States Agency for International Develop-
ment.
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(12) ZOONOTIC DISEASE.—The term ‘‘zoonotic 
disease’’ means any disease that is naturally trans-
missible between animals and humans. 
SEC. 8004. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) The majority of recent emerging infectious 
diseases have originated in wildlife. 
(2) There is a rise in the frequency of zoonotic 
spillover events and outbreaks of such diseases. 
(3) This rise in such spillover events and out-
breaks relates to the increased interaction between 
humans and wildlife. 
(4) There is a progressive and increasing rise in 
interaction between human populations and wildlife 
related to deforestation, habitat degradation, and ex-
pansion of human activity into the habitat of such 
wildlife. 
(5) The increase in such interactions due to 
these factors, particularly in forested regions of trop-
ical countries where there is high mammalian diver-
sity, is a serious risk factor for spillover events. 
(6) A serious risk factor for spillover events 
also relates to the collection, production, commercial 
trade, and sale for human consumption of wildlife 
that may transmit to zoonotic pathogens to humans
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that may then replicate and be transmitted within 
the human population. 
(7) Such a risk factor is increased if it involves 
wildlife that— 
(A) does not ordinarily interact with hu-
mans; or 
(B) lives under a stressful condition, as 
such condition exacerbates the shedding of 
zoonotic pathogens. 
(8) Markets for such wildlife to be sold for 
human consumption are found in many countries. 
(9) In some communities, such wildlife may be 
the only accessible source of high quality nutrition. 
(10) The public health emergency has resulted 
in— 
(A) trillions of dollars in economic damage 
to the United States; and 
(B) the deaths of hundreds of thousands of 
American citizens. 
SEC. 8005. UNITED STATES POLICY TOWARD ASSISTING 
COUNTRIES 
IN 
PREVENTING 
ZOONOTIC 
SPILLOVER EVENTS. 
The Secretary of State and Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development, in 
consultation with the Director of the United States Fish
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and Wildlife Service, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the 
leadership of other relevant agencies, shall coordinate, en-
gage, and work with governments, multilateral entities, 
intergovernmental organizations, international partners, 
and non-governmental organizations to— 
(1) prevent commercial trade in live wildlife and 
raw or unprocessed wildlife parts and derivatives for 
human consumption that risks contributing to 
zoonotic spillover, placing a priority focus on tropical 
countries or countries with significant markets for 
live wildlife for human consumption, which includes 
such wildlife trade activities as— 
(A) high volume commercial trade and as-
sociated markets; 
(B) trade in and across well connected 
urban centers; 
(C) trade for luxury consumption or where 
there is no dietary necessity by— 
(i) working through existing treaties, 
conventions, and agreements to develop a 
new protocol, or to amend existing proto-
cols or agreements; and 
(ii) expanding combating wildlife traf-
ficking programs to support enforcement 
of the closure of such markets and new il-
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legal markets in response to closures, and 
the prevention of such trade, including— 
(I) providing assistance to im-
prove law enforcement; 
(II) detecting and deterring the 
illegal import, transit, sale and export 
of wildlife; 
(III) strengthening such pro-
grams to assist countries through 
legal reform; 
(IV) improving information shar-
ing and enhancing capabilities of par-
ticipating foreign governments; 
(V) supporting efforts to change 
behavior and reduce demand for such 
wildlife products; and 
(VI) leveraging United States 
private sector technologies and exper-
tise to scale and enhance enforcement 
responses to detect and prevent such 
trade; 
(D) leveraging strong United States bilat-
eral relationships to support new and existing 
inter-ministerial collaborations or task forces
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that can serve as regional One Health models; 
or 
(E) building local agricultural capacity by 
leveraging expertise from the Department of 
Agriculture, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and insti-
tutions of higher education with agricultural ex-
pertise; 
(2) prevent the degradation and fragmentation 
of forests and other intact ecosystems, particularly 
in tropical countries, to minimize interactions be-
tween wildlife and human and livestock populations 
that could contribute to spillover events and zoonotic 
disease transmission, including by providing assist-
ance or supporting policies to— 
(A) conserve, protect, and restore the in-
tegrity of such ecosystems; 
(B) support the rights of indigenous peo-
ples and local communities and their abilities to 
continue their effective stewardships of their 
traditional lands and territories; 
(C) support the establishment and effective 
management of protected areas, prioritizing 
highly intact areas; and 
(D) prevent activities that result in the de-
struction, degradation, fragmentation, or con-
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version of intact forests and other intact eco-
systems and biodiversity strongholds, including 
by governments, private sector entities, and 
multilateral development financial institutions; 
(3) offer alternative livelihood and worker train-
ing programs and enterprise development to wildlife 
traders, wildlife breeders, and local communities 
whose members are engaged in the commercial wild-
life trade for human consumption; 
(4) work with indigenous peoples and local com-
munities to— 
(A) ensure that their rights are respected 
and their authority to exercise such rights is 
protected; 
(B) provide education and awareness on 
animal handling, sanitation, and disease trans-
mission, as well as sustainable wildlife manage-
ment and support to develop village-level alter-
native sources of protein and nutrition; 
(C) reduce the risk of zoonotic spillover 
while ensuring food security and access to 
healthy diets; and 
(D) improve farming practices to reduce 
the risk of zoonotic spillover to livestock;
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(5) strengthen global capacity for detection of 
zoonotic diseases with pandemic potential; and 
(6) support the development of One Health sys-
tems at the community level. 
SEC. 8006. GLOBAL ZOONOTIC DISEASE TASK FORCE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established a task 
force to be known as the ‘‘Global Zoonotic Disease Task 
Force’’. 
(b) DUTIES OF TASK FORCE.—The duties of the 
Task Force shall be to— 
(1) ensure an integrated approach across the 
Federal Government and globally to the prevention 
of, early detection of, preparedness for, and response 
to zoonotic spillover and the outbreak and trans-
mission of zoonotic diseases that may pose a threat 
to global health security; 
(2) not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, develop and publish, on a 
publicly accessible website, a plan for global biosecu-
rity and zoonotic disease prevention and response 
that leverages expertise in public health, wildlife 
health, livestock veterinary health, sustainable forest 
management, community-based conservation, rural 
food security, and indigenous rights to coordinate 
zoonotic disease surveillance internationally, includ-
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ing support for One Health institutions around the 
world that can prevent and provide early detection 
of zoonotic outbreaks; and 
(3) expanding the scope of the implementation 
of the White House’s Global Health Security Strat-
egy to more robustly support the prevention of 
zoonotic spillover and respond to zoonotic disease in-
vestigations and outbreaks by establishing a 10-year 
strategy with specific Federal Government inter-
national goals, priorities, and timelines for action, 
including to— 
(A) recommend policy actions and mecha-
nisms in developing countries to reduce the risk 
of zoonotic spillover and zoonotic disease emer-
gence and transmission, including in support of 
the activities described in section 8005; 
(B) identify new mandates, authorities, 
and incentives needed to strengthen the global 
zoonotic disease plan under paragraph (2); and 
(C) prioritize engagement in programs that 
target tropical countries and regions experi-
encing high rates of deforestation, forest deg-
radation, and land conversion, and countries 
with significant markets for live wildlife for 
human consumption.
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(3) TERMS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Each member of the 
Task Force shall be appointed for a term of two 
years. 
(B) VACANCIES.—Any member appointed 
to fill a vacancy occurring before the expiration 
of the term for which the member’s predecessor 
was appointed shall be appointed only for the 
remainder of that term. A member may serve 
after the expiration of that term until a suc-
cessor has been appointed. 
(d) MEETING.— 
(1) INITIAL MEETING.—The Task Force shall 
hold its initial meeting not later than 45 days after 
the final appointment of all members under sub-
section (b)(2). 
(2) MEETINGS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Task Force shall 
meet at the call of the Chairperson. 
(B) QUORUM.—Eight members of the 
Task Force shall constitute a quorum, but a 
lesser number may hold hearings. 
(e) COMPENSATION.— 
(1) PROHIBITION OF COMPENSATION.—Except 
as provided in paragraph (2), members of the Task
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Force may not receive additional pay, allowances, 
benefits by reason of their service on the Task 
Force. 
(2) TRAVEL
EXPENSES.—Each member shall 
receive travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of 
subsistence, in accordance with applicable provisions 
under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United 
States Code. 
(f) REPORTS.— 
(1) REPORT TO TASK FORCE.—Not later than 
6 months after the enactment of this act and annu-
ally thereafter, the Federal agencies listed in sub-
section (b), shall submit a report to the Task Force 
containing a detailed statement with respect to the 
results of any programming within their agencies 
that addresses the goals of zoonotic spillover and 
disease prevention. 
(2) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 12 
months after the date of the enactment of this Act 
and annually thereafter, the Task Force shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees and the 
National Security Advisor a report containing a de-
tailed statement of the recommendations of the 
Council pursuant to subsection (b).
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(g) FACA.—Section 14(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Ad-
visory Committee Act shall not apply to the Task Force. 
The Task Force is authorized for seven years beginning 
on the date of the enactment of this Act, and up to an 
additional two years at the discretion of the Task Force 
Chairperson. 
SEC. 8007. PREVENTING OUTBREAKS OF ZOONOTIC DIS-
EASES. 
(a) INTEGRATED ZOONOTIC DISEASES PROGRAM.— 
There is authorized an integrated zoonotic diseases pro-
gram within the United States Agency for International 
Development’s global health security programs, led by the 
Administrator, in consultation with the Director for the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other rel-
evant Federal agencies, to prevent spillover events, 
epidemics, and pandemics through the following activities: 
(1) Partnering with a consortium that possesses 
the following technical capabilities: 
(A) Institution with expertise in global 
wildlife health and zoonotic pathogen, animal 
care and management, combating wildlife traf-
ficking, including community-based conserva-
tion, wildlife trade and trafficking, wildlife habi-
tat protection, protected area management, and 
preventing deforestation and forest degradation.
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(B) Institutions of higher education with 
veterinary and public health expertise. 
(C) Institutions with public health exper-
tise. 
(2) Implementing programs that aim to prevent 
zoonotic spillover and expand on the results of the 
USAID Emerging Pandemic Threat Outcomes pro-
gram, including PREDICT and PREDICT–2, to 
prioritize the following activities: 
(A) Utilizing coordinated information and 
data sharing platforms, including information 
related to biosecurity threats, in ongoing and 
future research. 
(B) Conducting One Health zoonotic re-
search at human-wildlife interfaces. 
(C) Conducting One Health research into 
known and novel zoonotic pathogen detection. 
(D) Conducting surveillance, including bio-
security surveillance, of priority and unknown 
zoonotic diseases and the transmission of such 
diseases. 
(E) Preventing spillover events of zoonotic 
diseases. 
(F) Investing in frontline diagnostic capa-
bility at points of contact.
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(G) Understanding global and national- 
level legal and illegal wildlife trade routes and 
value chains, and their impacts on biodiversity 
loss on human-wildlife interfaces. 
(H) Understanding the impacts of land-use 
change and conversion and biodiversity loss on 
human-wildlife interfaces and zoonotic spillover 
risk. 
(I) Supporting development of One Health 
capacity and systems at the community level in-
cluding integrating activities to improve com-
munity health, promote sustainable manage-
ment and conservation of forests, and ensure 
safety in livestock production and handling. 
(J) Utilizing existing One Health trained 
workforce in developing countries to identify 
high risk or reoccurring spillover event locations 
and concentrate capacity and functionality at 
such locations. 
(K) Continuing to train a One Health 
workforce in developing countries to prevent 
and respond to disease outbreaks in animals 
and humans, including training protected area 
managers in disease collection technology linked 
to existing data sharing platforms.