Accountability in Foreign Animal Research Act
This bill prohibits the National Institutes of Health from conducting or supporting research that involves testing on vertebrate animals in China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, or other countries determined to be a foreign adversary.
To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through 
 the Director of the National Institutes of Health from conducting or 
 supporting research on animals in certain foreign countries, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Accountability in Foreign Animal 
Research Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING RESEARCH ON ANIMALS IN CERTAIN FOREIGN 
              COUNTRIES.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting 
through the Director of the National Institutes of Health, may not 
directly or indirectly conduct or support, through grants, subgrants, 
contracts, cooperative agreements or other funding vehicles, research 
that involves testing on vertebrate animals that will be conducted in 
any of the foreign countries specified in subsection (b).
    (b) Foreign Countries Specified.--The foreign countries specified 
in this section includes each of the following foreign countries:
            (1) The People's Republic of China, including the Hong Kong 
        Special Administrative Region (China).
            (2) The Republic of Cuba (Cuba).
            (3) The Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran).
            (4) The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North 
        Korea).
            (5) The Russian Federation (Russia).
            (6) Venezuelan politician Nicolas Maduro (Maduro Regime).
            (7) Such other foreign country that the Secretary of Health 
        and Human Services, in consultation with the Secretary of State 
        and the Secretary of Defense, determines is a foreign 
        adversary.
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Accountability in Foreign Animal Research Act
To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health from conducting or supporting research on animals in certain foreign countries, and for other purposes.
Accountability in Foreign Animal Research Act
Rep. McClain, Lisa C.