After Second Arrest Linked to Illegal Bio Labs, Rep. Kiley Urges Hearing on Bipartisan Public Health Bill

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Kevin Kiley (R-CA) is urging Congress to take action on his legislation after the FBI investigated a home in Las Vegas for operating an illegal biological laboratory, which may be related to a Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked bio lab in Reedley, California.

In response to the incident in Reedley, Reps. Kevin Kiley (R-CA), Jim Costa (D-CA), and David Valadao (R-CA) introduced the Preventing Illegal Laboratories and Protecting Public Health Act of 2025, bipartisan legislation designed to strengthen federal oversight of highly pathogenic agents and high-containment laboratories and to protect Americans from public health and national security threats.

Congressman Kiley is now calling for a hearing on the bill to prevent illegal laboratories from continuing to endanger communities.

“This can’t keep happening,” said Congressman Kiley. “The federal government must do more to stop illegal labs from operating in our communities. This bipartisan bill closes loopholes that allow dangerous facilities like these to operate under the radar.”

After the Reedley lab was discovered, Congressman Kiley requested an investigation. The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party issued a report with the following findings:

The illegal biolab was run by a PRC citizen who is a wanted fugitive from Canada with a $330 million Canadian dollar judgment against him for stealing American intellectual property.
This PRC citizen was a top official at a PRC-state-controlled company and had links to military-civil fusion entities.
The illegal biolab received millions of dollars in unexplained payments from PRC banks while running the illegal biolab.
The illegal biolab contained thousands of samples of labeled, unlabeled, and encoded potential pathogens, including HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and Covid.
The illegal biolab also contained a freezer labeled “Ebola,” which contained unlabeled, sealed silver bags consistent with how the lab stored high risk biological materials. Ebola is a Select Agent with a lethality rate between 25-90%.
The biolab contained nearly a thousand transgenic mice, genetically engineered to mimic the human immune system. Lab workers said that the mice were designed “to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus.”
After local officials who discovered the lab sought help from the CDC and others, the CDC refused to test any of the samples.

The full bill text is available HERE.

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