US HB4525 | 2015-2016 | 114th Congress
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Introduced on February 10 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-10 - Referred to House Budget
Pending: House Budget Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on February 10 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-10 - Referred to House Budget
Pending: House Budget Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
Public Health Emergency Preparedness Act This bill provides $5 billion in supplemental appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Public Health Emergency Fund. The bill designates the funds as an emergency requirement, and provides that the funds are only available if the President subsequently designates the funds. (Emergency spending is exempt from discretionary spending limits and other budget enforcement rules.) HHS may use the funds provided by this bill to acquire products such as drugs, vaccines and other biological products, and medical devices for deposit into the Strategic National Stockpile. The bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to exempt the Public Health Emergency Fund from sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.
Title
Public Health Emergency Preparedness Act
Sponsors
Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT] | Rep. Al Green [D-TX] | Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA] | Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA] |
Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY] | Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN] | Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX] |
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2016-02-10 | House | Referred to House Budget |
2016-02-10 | House | Referred to House Appropriations |
2016-02-10 | House | Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. |
2016-02-10 | House | Introduced in House |
Subjects
Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Department of Health and Human Services
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Strategic materials and reserves
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Department of Health and Human Services
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Strategic materials and reserves
US Congress State Sources
Type | Source |
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Summary | https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4525/all-info |
Text | https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr4525/BILLS-114hr4525ih.pdf |