US Congress House Bill 4384 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: Introduced on April 3 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-04-11 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

America Helping Encourage Advancements in Lifesaving Science or the America HEALS Act - Establishes a Biomedical Research Fund to be administered by the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for an expanded and sustained national investment in biomedical research. Requires amounts to be transferred from the Fund for each fiscal year to accounts related to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Defense (DOD) health program, and the medical and prosthetics research program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that funding for such programs and agencies does not fall below 105% of the level of funding provided for the preceding fiscal year and an additional amount to account for any increases in the Gross Domestic Product for the year involved. Requires that amounts appropriated for each of such programs and agencies for a fiscal year be not be less than the amounts appropriated for FY2014. Authorizes and appropriates to the Fund such sums as necessary in each fiscal year to enable such transfers. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act to exempt the Fund from any sequestration order issued under such Act.

America HEALS Act

Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]	Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]
Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]	Rep. Linda Sanchez [D-CA]	Rep. Jackie Speier [D-CA]
Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]	Rep. Juan Vargas [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-04-11	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2014-04-04	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2014-04-03	House	Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
2014-04-03	House	Referred to House Armed Services
2014-04-03	House	Referred to House Budget
2014-04-03	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2014-04-03	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Armed Services, and Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

SB2115 (Related) 2014-03-12 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1586-1587)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4384/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr4384/BILLS-113hr4384ih.pdf