Title: TRANSPLANT Act of 2020
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Timely ReAuthorization of Necessary Stem-cell Programs Lends Access to Needed Therapies Act of 2019 or the TRANSPLANT Act of 2019  This bill modifies and reauthorizes through FY2025 the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program, which provides support to patients who need a potentially life-saving bone marrow transplant or umbilical cord blood transplant. The bill also requires the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a periodic review of the science of using adult stem cells and birthing tissues in therapeutic treatments.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4764 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4764

To reauthorize the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 18, 2019

Ms. Matsui (for herself, Mr. Bilirakis, and Ms. Pingree) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To reauthorize the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, and 
                          for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Timely ReAuthorization of Necessary 
Stem-cell Programs Lends Access to Needed Therapies Act of 2019'' or 
the ``TRANSPLANT Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE C.W. BILL YOUNG CELL TRANSPLANTATION 
              PROGRAM.

    (a) Advisory Council Meetings.--Subsection (a) of section 379 of 
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 274k) is amended by adding at 
the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(7) The Secretary shall convene the Advisory Council at 
        least two times each calendar year.''.
    (b) Increasing Collection.--
            (1) Technical clarification.--Effective as if included in 
        the enactment of Public Law 114-104 (the Stem Cell Therapeutic 
        and Research Reauthorization Act of 2015), the amendment to 
        section 379(d)(2)(B) of the Public Health Service Act (42 
        U.S.C. 274k(d)(2)(B)) in section 2(a)(2) of Public Law 114-104 
        is amended by inserting ``goal of increasing collections of 
        high quality'' before ``cord blood units,''.
            (2) Eliminating deadwood.--Subparagraph (B) of section 
        379(d)(2) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
        274k(d)(2)) is amended by striking the second and third 
        sentences in such subparagraph.
    (c) Periodic Review of State of Science.--Section 379 of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 274k) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subsection:
    ``(o) Periodic Review of State of Science.--
            ``(1) Review.--Not less than every two years, the 
        Secretary, in consultation with the Director of the National 
        Institutes of Health, the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, the 
        Administrator of the Health Resources and Services 
        Administration, the Advisory Council, and other stakeholders, 
        where appropriate given relevant expertise, shall conduct a 
        review of the state of the science of using adult stem cells 
        and birthing tissues to develop new types of therapies for 
        patients, for the purpose of considering the potential 
        inclusion of such new types of therapies in the Program.
            ``(2) Recommendations.--Not later than June 30, 2024, the 
        Secretary shall--
                    ``(A) complete the second review required by 
                paragraph (1); and
                    ``(B) informed by such review, submit to the 
                Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of 
                the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of 
                the House of Representatives recommendations on the 
                appropriateness of the inclusion of new types of 
                therapies in the Program.''.
    (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 379B of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 274m) is amended by striking 
``$33,000,000 for fiscal year 2015 and $30,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2016 through 2020'' and inserting ``$30,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2021 through 2025''.

SEC. 3. CORD BLOOD INVENTORY.

    Subsection (g) of section 2 of the Stem Cell Therapeutic and 
Research Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 274k note) is amended to read as 
follows:
    ``(g) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this section, 
there is authorized to be appropriated $23,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2021 through 2025.''.
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