S 4494
119th Congress
Senate
Health
American Cures Act
Introduced: May 12, 2026
Introduced by:
Durbin, Richard J.
Democratic
· Illinois
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 12, 2026
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. (text: CR S2239)
May 12, 2026
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 (PAYGO) Act of 2010 and the Senate PAYGO rule.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. (text: CR S2239)
Committees of jurisdiction
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