A resolution congratulating the University of Wisconsin Badgers on winning the 2021 National Collegiate Athletic Association Women's Ice Hockey Championship.
- Last Action
- 4/28/2021
Actions
- 2021-02-03Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- 2021-02-03Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2021-02-03 (00)
Pandemic Emergency Manufacturing Act of 2021
This bill establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) an Emergency Office of Manufacturing for Public Health to manufacture and distribute medical products to address COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) or medical products that are on shortage or vulnerable to shortage.
The office must (1) obtain the rights to manufacture the applicable medicines, ingredients, diagnostic tests, medical devices, personal protective equipment, and supplies; (2) manufacture or contract to manufacture such items; and (3) construct, or enter into construction contracts for, facilities to manufacture certain medicines, such as vaccines.
HHS may issue involuntary licenses allowing the office to make, use, sell, import, or export an invention related to an applicable drug, biological product, or device and to use clinical trial data and confidential information. Such a license must provide the rights holder with reasonable compensation.
The office must (1) provide such COVID-19 products at no cost to federal, state, local, and other health programs and certain domestic health care providers and suppliers; (2) offer COVID-19 products at cost to other commercial and international entities; and (3) offer other medical products to entities at a fair price, based on cost and other considerations.
The office shall prioritize the manufacture of certain COVID-19 products and meet manufacturing timelines specified in the bill.
Subjects
- Blood and blood diseases
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Congressional oversight
- Corporate finance and management
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Federal officials
- Genetics
- Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Health personnel
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Immunology and vaccination
- Indian social and development programs
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Inflation and prices
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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