1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Coronavirus Origin Validation, Investigation, and Determination Act of 2023 or the COVID Act of 2023 . 2. Measures in response to failure of the Government of the People's Republic of China to allow an investigation of suspect laboratories in Wuhan (a) In general If, by not later than the date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President is unable to certify that the Government of the People’s Republic of China has allowed a transparent international forensic investigation of suspect laboratories in Wuhan to commence, including of the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (in this section referred to as CAS ), the President shall— (1) impose the sanctions described in subsection (c) with respect to— (A) individuals who hold positions of leadership in the state-run CAS, including its affiliated institutes and laboratories, local branches, and universities; and (B) individuals who— (i) are officials of the Chinese Communist Party, the People’s Liberation Army, or the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, including its subordinate agencies, such as the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Health Commission, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Emergency Management, and the Ministry of Public Security; and (ii) were involved in concealing the initial outbreak of COVID–19 in the People's Republic of China from the international community, restricting the release of information related to the outbreak, understating the severity of the outbreak, or obstructing an international investigation into the origin of the outbreak