I 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6607 
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish, in 
coordination with the Director of the strategic national stockpile, the 
National Emergency Biodefense Network, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 23, 2020 
Mr. LYNCH (for himself and Mr. SOTO) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to 
establish, in coordination with the Director of the stra-
tegic national stockpile, the National Emergency Bio-
defense Network, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Strategic National 
Stockpile Enhancement and Transparency Act’’. 
SEC. 2. NATIONAL EMERGENCY BIODEFENSE NETWORK. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part B of title III of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 243 et seq.) is amended 
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by inserting after section 319F–4 (42 U.S.C. 247d–6e) 
the following: 
‘‘SEC. 319F–5. NATIONAL EMERGENCY BIODEFENSE NET-
WORK. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary shall 
establish, in coordination with the strategic national stock-
pile under section 319F–2 and the National Biodefense 
Science Board established under section 319M, a network 
of State entities to be known as the ‘National Emergency 
Biodefense Network’ (referred to in this section as the 
‘Network’) to, with respect to drugs, vaccines and other 
biological products, medical devices, and other supplies 
necessary for the emergency health security of the United 
States— 
‘‘(1) track the availability of such supplies in 
each State and in the strategic national stockpile; 
and 
‘‘(2) maintain an adequate supply of such sup-
plies in each State and in the strategic national 
stockpile. 
‘‘(b) NETWORK REQUIREMENT.—The Network shall 
be developed and implemented using a private blockchain. 
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‘‘(c) GRANTS
TO
STATES.—The Secretary shall 
award grants to States to enable States to establish an 
entity which shall— 
‘‘(1) serve as a statewide repository of the sup-
plies referred to in subsection (a); and 
‘‘(2) provide for the tracking of the inventory 
and movement of such supplies using a private 
blockchain. 
‘‘(d) BLOCKCHAIN.—In this section, the term 
‘blockchain’ means software that uses a distributed digital 
ledger of cryptographically signed transactions that are 
grouped into blocks, each of which— 
‘‘(1) is cryptographically linked to the previous 
block after validation and undergoing a consensus 
decision; and 
‘‘(2) when added as a new block, makes any 
older blocks more difficult to modify and is rep-
licated across all copies of the ledger within the rel-
evant network, with any conflicts in such blocks re-
solved automatically using established rules. 
‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to carry out this section $25,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2021 and 2022.’’. 
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