A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to enable the Secretary of Health and Human Services to expedite the initiation of research to be conducted or supported by the National Institutes of Health into the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases or disorders which constitute a public health emergency.
Public Health Emergency Research Act - Amends title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct research on public health emergency diseases or disorders through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Permits such research contracts to be entered into without regard to specified statutory provisions.
Establishes a fund in the Treasury for such purposes, such fund to be financed through transferred NIH appropriations.
Requires annual fund expenditure reports (within 90 days of the end of each fiscal year) to the appropriate congressional committees.
Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Health and Human Services Department, OMB.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
See H.R.2713.
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