S 1683
117th Congress
Senate
Commerce
Africa
Asia
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
China
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Free trade and trade barriers
India
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Intellectual property
Property rights
South Africa
Technology transfer and commercialization
Trade agreements and negotiations
U.S. and foreign investments
Preventing Foreign Attempts To Erode Healthcare Innovation Act
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 18, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 18, 2021
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Preventing Foreign Attempts to Erode Healthcare Innovation Act
This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to support, allow, or facilitate the negotiation or approval of any measure at the World Trade Organization to waive intellectual property rights, including the waiver proposed by India and South Africa to suspend certain provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights to facilitate the prevention, containment, and treatment of COVID-19.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1