American Cures Act
Official title: A bill to prioritize funding for an expanded and sustained national investment in biomedical research.
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- Introduced, done
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What This Bill Does
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.
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Timeline
- Library of CongressIntroduced in Senate
- SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. (text: CR S2239)
- Introduced
- Committee
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