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117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6520 

To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an 

automated supply chain tracking application that provides near realtime insight into the amount of critical medical and health supplies 

available in the Strategic National Stockpile. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 28, 2022 

Mr. GOTTHEIMER (for himself, Mr. HUDSON, Mr. BALDERSON, Ms. 

BOURDEAUX, Mr. MCKINLEY, and Mrs. TRAHAN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services 

to establish an automated supply chain tracking application that provides near real-time insight into the amount 

of critical medical and health supplies available in the 

Strategic National Stockpile. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Medical and Health 

5 Stockpile Accountability Act of 2022’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. TRACKING AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF SUPPLIES IN 

2 THE NATIONAL STOCKPILE. 

3 Section 319F–2 of the Public Health Service Act (42 

4 U.S.C. 247d–6b) is amended— 

5 (1) by redesignating subsection (h) as sub6 section (i); and 

7 (2) by inserting after subsection (g) the fol8 lowing: 

9 ‘‘(h) TRACKING AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF SUPPLIES

10 IN THE STOCKPILE.— 

11 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall estab12 lish an automated supply chain tracking application 

13 that provides near real-time insight into the amount 

14 of critical medical and health supplies available in 

15 the stockpile under subsection (a), and available in 

16 the medical and health supply inventories of State, 

17 Tribal, territories, and local and private entities such 

18 as hospitals, manufacturers, and distributors. 

19 ‘‘(2) ACCESS AND USE OF THE APPLICATION.— 

20 The Secretary shall establish rules for data access, 

21 and use of, the application established under para22 graph (1). Such rules shall— 

23 ‘‘(A) require internal tracking, pursuant to 

24 subsection (d), of all supplies within the stock25 pile under subsection (a), in a manner that is 


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1 visible to Federal entities identified by the Sec2 retary; 

3 ‘‘(B) allow for data access, by Federal en4 tities during an emergency response, as deter5 mined by the Secretary, to the medical and 

6 health supply stockpiles of State, Tribal, terri7 tories, and local and private partners; 

8 ‘‘(C) establish, after consultation with pub9 lic and private partners, a national standard for 

10 collecting and reporting data related to prod11 ucts maintained in the stockpile, including— 

12 ‘‘(i) data standards for category of 

13 products, nomenclature, and standards for 

14 coding of each product for entities to re15 port product availability in their Federal, 

16 State, and local jurisdictions; 

17 ‘‘(ii) application of the standard to 

18 Tribal and local stockpiles; and 

19 ‘‘(iii) a data dictionary defining terms, 

20 such as ‘burn rate’, ‘calculation of supply21 on-hand’, and other appropriate terms; 

22 ‘‘(D) ensure clear and efficient mecha23 nisms for health care entities, including hos24 pitals, manufacturers, and distributors, to re25 port data in an emergency that supports medVerDate Sep 11 2014 22:16 Feb 10, 2022 Jkt 029200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H6520.IH H6520

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1 ical and health supply chain management and 

2 surge re-deployment, including detailed data re3 garding all relevant supplies secured and avail4 able; 

5 ‘‘(E) allow access by the Department of 

6 Health and Human Services to data from dif7 ferent vendor management systems, through 

8 automated feeds from health care entities, 

9 eliminating manual reporting errors from health 

10 care entities; 

11 ‘‘(F) establish the parameters for per12 mitted and prohibited government data access 

13 and uses; 

14 ‘‘(G) ensure that the Department of 

15 Health and Human Services protects any data 

16 from hospitals, manufacturers, and distributors 

17 that is shared through the application, includ18 ing protection of confidential, proprietary, com19 mercial, and trade secret information; 

20 ‘‘(H) ensure that Federal data collection is 

21 for monitoring and dynamic allocation and will 

22 not be used to remove or reallocate inventory 

23 from organizations; 


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1 ‘‘(I) ensure that data will not be used by 

2 suppliers for commercial or contractual pur3 poses; 

4 ‘‘(J) ensure that reported data will not be 

5 used to advantage or disadvantage any institu6 tion over another or to undermine the competi7 tive marketplace; and 

8 ‘‘(K) ensure that the application interfaces, 

9 for tracking management purposes, with the 

10 National Disaster Recovery Framework of the 

11 Federal Emergency Management Agency, ap12 propriate dashboards of the Department of De13 fense, and other appropriate Federal partners. 

14 ‘‘(3) PARTICIPATION BY PRIVATE ENTITIES.— 

15 The application established under paragraph (1) 

16 shall support the voluntary sharing of data and ac17 cessing data by private health care supply chain en18 tities, by allowing such entities to display near real19 time data relating to inventory and time estimates 

20 for when inventories may be replenished. 

21 ‘‘(4) ANNUAL EXERCISE.—The Secretary shall 

22 provide for an annual exercise hosted by the Depart23 ment of Health and Human Services to test the ef24 fectiveness of the application established under para25 graph (1), and to provide an opportunity to report, 


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1 not later than 180 days after publication of the 

2 standards described in paragraph (2)(C), any ineffi3 ciencies or deficiencies in the application. 

4 ‘‘(5) PROGRAM OF SUPPORT.—The Secretary 

5 shall establish a program to assist State, local, and 

6 private health care entities, such as rural, critical ac7 cess, or community hospitals, that do not have an 

8 automated vendor management system in developing 

9 or obtaining such a system. 

10 ‘‘(6) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 

11 There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec12 retary for the acquisition and development of an ap13 plication under this section, $250,000,000 to remain 

14 available for fiscal years 2022 through 2027.’’. 

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