1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Pandemics Require Evaluating, Planning, and Responding Effectively Act or the PREPARE Act . 2. Establishment of Commission There is established in the legislative branch the National Commission on the COVID–19 Pandemic (in this Act referred to as the Commission ). 3. Purposes The purposes of the Commission are to— (1) examine and report upon the facts and causes relating to the COVID–19 pandemic that resulted from the global spread of the SARS–CoV–2 virus, from Wuhan, China; (2) ascertain, evaluate, and report on the evidence developed by all relevant governmental agencies regarding the facts and circumstances surrounding the pandemic and the emergence of SARS–CoV–2; (3) build upon the investigations of other entities, and avoid unnecessary duplication by critically reviewing the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of executive branch, congressional, or independent commission investigations into the COVID–19 pandemic while adopting only the findings, conclusions and recommendations of such investigations as the Commission shall find accurate and unbiased; (4) make a full and complete accounting of the circumstances surrounding the pandemic, and the extent of the United States preparedness for, and immediate response to, the pandemic