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S 2917 113th Congress Senate Health Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation Drug therapy Infectious and parasitic diseases

Adding Ebola to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act

Introduced: November 12, 2014 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 18 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 16, 2014
Became Public Law No: 113-233.
Dec 16, 2014
Signed by President.
Dec 10, 2014
Presented to President.
Dec 3, 2014
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Dec 3, 2014
On passage Passed without objection. (text: CR H8344)
Dec 3, 2014
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.(text: CR H8344)
Dec 3, 2014
Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H8344)
Dec 3, 2014
Mr. Bilirakis asked unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table and consider.
Dec 3, 2014
Held at the desk.
Dec 3, 2014
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Dec 3, 2014
Received in the House.
Dec 2, 2014
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6271; text as passed Senate: CR S6271)
Dec 2, 2014
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S6271; text as passed Senate: CR S6271)
Nov 19, 2014
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 602.
Nov 19, 2014
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Harkin without amendment. Without written report.
Nov 19, 2014
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Nov 12, 2014
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Nov 12, 2014
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate reported version is repeated here.)

Adding Ebola to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act - (Sec. 2) Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to add filoviruses, a family of viruses that includes the Ebola virus, to the list of tropical diseases under the priority review voucher program, which awards vouchers to sponsors of human drug applications that are approved to prevent or treat tropical diseases. (A voucher entitles the holder to have a future human drug application acted upon by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within six months.)

Changes the process by which infectious diseases that do not significantly impact developed nations and disproportionately affect poor and marginalized populations can be designated as tropical diseases from rulemaking to order of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Allows priority review vouchers to be transferred between sponsors of human drug applications any number of times.

Reduces from 365 days to 90 days the advance notice required before submitting a human drug application subject to a priority review voucher.
What's happening now December 16, 2014

Became Public Law No: 113-233.

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