S 962
117th Congress
Senate
Health
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
American Cures Act
Introduced: March 24, 2021
Introduced by:
Durbin, Richard J.
Democratic
· Illinois
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 24, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. (text: CR S1770-1771)
Mar 24, 2021
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
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.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. (text: CR S1770-1771)
Committees of jurisdiction
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