S 1654
116th Congress
Senate
Taxation
Health promotion and preventive care
Immunology and vaccination
Sales and excise taxes
Vaccine Access Improvement Act of 2019
Introduced: May 23, 2019
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 23, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 23, 2019
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Vaccine Access Improvement Act of 2019
This bill modifies the excise tax on certain vaccines to (1) automatically impose the tax on vaccines that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) adds to the Vaccine Injury Table, and (2) require HHS to notify the Department of the Treasury and Congress when new vaccines are added to the table. (The excise tax funds the National Vaccine Injury Program, which compensates people who have been injured by vaccines listed on the table.)
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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