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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 real- 
time 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 fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
to establish an automated supply chain tracking applica-
tion that provides near real-time insight into the amount 
of critical medical and health supplies available in the 
Strategic National Stockpile. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Medical and Health 
Stockpile Accountability Act of 2022’’. 
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SEC. 2. TRACKING AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF SUPPLIES IN 
THE NATIONAL STOCKPILE. 
Section 319F–2 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 247d–6b) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (h) as sub-
section (i); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (g) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(h) TRACKING AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF SUPPLIES 
IN THE STOCKPILE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall estab-
lish an automated supply chain tracking application 
that provides near real-time insight into the amount 
of critical medical and health supplies available in 
the stockpile under subsection (a), and available in 
the medical and health supply inventories of State, 
Tribal, territories, and local and private entities such 
as hospitals, manufacturers, and distributors. 
‘‘(2) ACCESS AND USE OF THE APPLICATION.— 
The Secretary shall establish rules for data access, 
and use of, the application established under para-
graph (1). Such rules shall— 
‘‘(A) require internal tracking, pursuant to 
subsection (d), of all supplies within the stock-
pile under subsection (a), in a manner that is 
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visible to Federal entities identified by the Sec-
retary; 
‘‘(B) allow for data access, by Federal en-
tities during an emergency response, as deter-
mined by the Secretary, to the medical and 
health supply stockpiles of State, Tribal, terri-
tories, and local and private partners; 
‘‘(C) establish, after consultation with pub-
lic and private partners, a national standard for 
collecting and reporting data related to prod-
ucts maintained in the stockpile, including— 
‘‘(i) data standards for category of 
products, nomenclature, and standards for 
coding of each product for entities to re-
port product availability in their Federal, 
State, and local jurisdictions; 
‘‘(ii) application of the standard to 
Tribal and local stockpiles; and 
‘‘(iii) a data dictionary defining terms, 
such as ‘burn rate’, ‘calculation of supply- 
on-hand’, and other appropriate terms; 
‘‘(D) ensure clear and efficient mecha-
nisms for health care entities, including hos-
pitals, manufacturers, and distributors, to re-
port data in an emergency that supports med-
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ical and health supply chain management and 
surge re-deployment, including detailed data re-
garding all relevant supplies secured and avail-
able; 
‘‘(E) allow access by the Department of 
Health and Human Services to data from dif-
ferent vendor management systems, through 
automated feeds from health care entities, 
eliminating manual reporting errors from health 
care entities; 
‘‘(F) establish the parameters for per-
mitted and prohibited government data access 
and uses; 
‘‘(G) ensure that the Department of 
Health and Human Services protects any data 
from hospitals, manufacturers, and distributors 
that is shared through the application, includ-
ing protection of confidential, proprietary, com-
mercial, and trade secret information; 
‘‘(H) ensure that Federal data collection is 
for monitoring and dynamic allocation and will 
not be used to remove or reallocate inventory 
from organizations; 
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‘‘(I) ensure that data will not be used by 
suppliers for commercial or contractual pur-
poses; 
‘‘(J) ensure that reported data will not be 
used to advantage or disadvantage any institu-
tion over another or to undermine the competi-
tive marketplace; and 
‘‘(K) ensure that the application interfaces, 
for tracking management purposes, with the 
National Disaster Recovery Framework of the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency, ap-
propriate dashboards of the Department of De-
fense, and other appropriate Federal partners. 
‘‘(3) PARTICIPATION BY PRIVATE ENTITIES.— 
The application established under paragraph (1) 
shall support the voluntary sharing of data and ac-
cessing data by private health care supply chain en-
tities, by allowing such entities to display near real- 
time data relating to inventory and time estimates 
for when inventories may be replenished. 
‘‘(4) ANNUAL EXERCISE.—The Secretary shall 
provide for an annual exercise hosted by the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services to test the ef-
fectiveness of the application established under para-
graph (1), and to provide an opportunity to report, 
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not later than 180 days after publication of the 
standards described in paragraph (2)(C), any ineffi-
ciencies or deficiencies in the application. 
‘‘(5) PROGRAM
OF
SUPPORT.—The Secretary 
shall establish a program to assist State, local, and 
private health care entities, such as rural, critical ac-
cess, or community hospitals, that do not have an 
automated vendor management system in developing 
or obtaining such a system. 
‘‘(6) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retary for the acquisition and development of an ap-
plication under this section, $250,000,000 to remain 
available for fiscal years 2022 through 2027.’’. 
Æ 
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