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• The enforcement provisions are extreme and may raise significant legal and privacy concerns. Those provisions mandate a suite of harsh penalties for any violations of certain provisions of the statute, including technical or unintentional violations; they allow for no flexibility in determining the severity of punishment; they provide the aggrieved party with no process; and they mandate public identification of aggrieved individuals. These provisions could broadly disincentivize individuals from working in life sciences research and funding agencies, which could send research outside of this country and compromise progress on public health, safety, and national security. We recommend that enforcement provisions be focused on willful violations and significantly reduced or adjusted.