HCONRES 313
97th Congress
House
Health
Child health
Children and youth
Congress and Congressmen
Congressional oversight
Preventive medicine
A concurrent resolution respecting Congressional oversight and agency studies of the appropriateness of continued use of the pertussis vaccine.
Introduced: April 21, 1982
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 23, 1982
Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Apr 21, 1982
Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Apr 21, 1982
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Requires the appropriate congressional committees to begin oversight hearings on: (1) the safety of the use of the pertussis vaccine; (2) the activities of the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control respecting the use of the vaccine and the incidence of its side effects; and (3) the need for additional legislation respecting regulation of such vaccine.
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Food and Drug Administration should begin an epidemiological study, and other appropriate studies, to determine whether or not it is consistent with public health to require or to promote the continued use of pertussis vaccine.
What's happening now
Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Committees of jurisdiction
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