This bill creates a tracking system for dangerous biological agents and establishes oversight of high-containment laboratories. The legislation requires distributors of highly pathogenic agents to maintain electronic logbooks recording all sales, leases, and transfers of these dangerous materials, including details about the buyer, intended use, and transfer method. Distributors must verify buyer identification and cannot transfer agents without proper documentation. The logbooks must be kept for at least three years and are accessible to law enforcement and public health officials but protected from public disclosure under Freedom of Information Act exemptions. The bill also directs the National Security Advisor to coordinate a federal evaluation of the nation's high-containment laboratories, assessing their security, capacity, and oversight needs, and requires the establishment of a single federal point of contact to assist state and local agencies with biosafety and biosecurity questions. The legislation does not explicitly allocate funding but assigns these responsibilities to the Department of Health and Human Services and requires completion of key evaluations and the federal contact team within one year of the bill's enactment.
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