American Cures Act
- Last Action
- 3/24/2021
Actions
- 2021-03-24Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. (text: CR S1770-1771)
- 2021-03-24Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2021-03-24 (00)
American Cures Act
This bill permanently funds several federal agencies and programs that perform biomedical research.
The bill provides specified funding for
- the National Institutes of Health,
- the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
- the Department of Defense health program, and
- the Department of Veterans Affairs medical and prosthetics research program.
The bill exempts the funding 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.
It also exempts the budgetary effects of the funding from the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO) and the Senate PAYGO rule.
Cosponsors (6)
- Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
- Ben Cardin (D-MD)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Subjects
- Appropriations
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Defense spending
- Department of Defense
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Medical research
- Military medicine
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Research administration and funding
- Research and development
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