No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 4207 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4207 To require any convention, agreement, or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response reached by the World Health Assembly to be subject to Senate ratification. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 26, 2025 Mr. Tiffany (for himself, Mr. Wied, Mr. Moolenaar, Ms. Hageman, Mr. Norman, Mr. Cloud, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Crane, Mr. Stauber, and Mr. Gosar) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require any convention, agreement, or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response reached by the World Health Assembly to be subject to Senate ratification. 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 ``No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress makes the following findings: (1) On May 18, 2020, President Donald Trump sent a letter to World Health Organization (referred to in this Act as ``WHO'') Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (referred to in this Act as the ``Director-General''), announcing that-- (A) United States contributions to WHO would be halted due its mismanagement of the COVID-19 outbreak and its lack of independence from the People's Republic of China; and (B) the United States would withdraw from WHO if it did not commit to substantive improvements within 30 days. (2) President Trump's May 18 letter cited numerous instances of WHO mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, including-- (A) unjustified delays informing member states about a potentially seri