Critical Biomanufacturing Input Assessment Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10658 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10658

To direct the Secretary of Commerce to publish, on an annual basis, an 
assessment on United States dependency on imported, fermentation-based, 
            biomanufacturing inputs, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 1, 2026

   Ms. Davids of Kansas (for herself and Mr. Alford) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL

 
To direct the Secretary of Commerce to publish, on an annual basis, an 
assessment on United States dependency on imported, fermentation-based, 
            biomanufacturing inputs, 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 ``Critical Biomanufacturing Input 
Assessment Act''.

SEC. 2. CRITICAL BIOMANUFACTURING INPUTS STUDY.

    The Secretary of Commerce shall, on an annual basis, submit to 
Congress an assessment of United States dependency on imported 
biomanufacturing inputs used in solid-state, gas, and continuous 
fermentation methods, biomass processing equipment, and scalable 
commercial-grade fermentation tanks of capacity ranging from 1 to over 
75,000 liters.
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