Title: To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study to investigate the feasibility of establishing user fees to offset certain Federal costs attributable to the procurement of single-source materials for the Strategic National Stockpile, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to study the feasibility of assessing user fees to offset federal costs associated with single-source materials for which the Strategic National Stockpile is the sole provider (e.g., certain antitoxins).
The study must address whether health care providers or other entities that receive such materials generate profits when charging patients for them.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6875 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6875

  To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a 
   study to investigate the feasibility of establishing user fees to 
offset certain Federal costs attributable to the procurement of single-
 source materials for the Strategic National Stockpile, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 14, 2020

  Ms. Slotkin (for herself and Mr. Van Drew) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a 
   study to investigate the feasibility of establishing user fees to 
offset certain Federal costs attributable to the procurement of single-
 source materials for the Strategic National Stockpile, 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. GAO STUDY ON THE FEASIBILITY AND BENEFITS OF A STRATEGIC 
              NATIONAL STOCKPILE USER FEE AGREEMENT.

    (a) In General.--The Comptroller General of the United States shall 
conduct a study to investigate the feasibility of establishing user 
fees to offset certain Federal costs attributable to the procurement of 
single-source materials for the Strategic National Stockpile under 
section 319F-2 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d-6b) and 
distributions of such materials from the Stockpile. In conducting this 
study, the Comptroller General shall consider, to the extent 
information is available--
            (1) whether entities receiving such distributions generate 
        profits from those distributions;
            (2) any Federal costs attributable to such distributions;
            (3) whether such user fees would provide the Secretary with 
        funding to potentially offset procurement costs of such 
        materials for the Strategic National Stockpile; and
            (4) any other issues the Comptroller General identifies as 
        relevant.
    (b) Report.--Not later than February 1, 2023, the Comptroller 
General of the United States shall submit to the Congress a report on 
the findings and conclusions of the study under subsection (a).
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