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HR 4384 113th Congress House Health Appropriations Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Department of Defense Department of Health and Human Services Department of Veterans Affairs Executive agency funding and structure Government trust funds Health programs administration and funding Medical research Military medicine National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research administration and funding Veterans' medical care

America HEALS Act

Introduced: April 3, 2014 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 11, 2014
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 4, 2014
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 3, 2014
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Armed Services, and Veterans' Affairs, 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.
Apr 3, 2014
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

America Helping Encourage Advancements in Lifesaving Science or the America HEALS Act - Establishes a Biomedical Research Fund to be administered by the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for an expanded and sustained national investment in biomedical research.

Requires amounts to be transferred from the Fund for each fiscal year to accounts related to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Defense (DOD) health program, and the medical and prosthetics research program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that funding for such programs and agencies does not fall below 105% of the level of funding provided for the preceding fiscal year and an additional amount to account for any increases in the Gross Domestic Product for the year involved.

Requires that amounts appropriated for each of such programs and agencies for a fiscal year be not be less than the amounts appropriated for FY2014. Authorizes and appropriates to the Fund such sums as necessary in each fiscal year to enable such transfers.

Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act to exempt the Fund from any sequestration order issued under such Act.

What's happening now April 11, 2014

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Committees of jurisdiction 6
 Cosponsors 7
All 7 Democratic 7