Influenza Preparedness and Prevention Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4245
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, Jerry [R-CA-41]
Introduced: 2005-11-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Agribusiness
Agriculture and Food
Animal diseases
Animals
Biological warfare
Birds
Cemeteries and funerals
Civil actions and liability
Claims
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Communication in science
Conferences
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Economic assistance
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to research
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fire fighters
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government procurement
Government publications
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Health facilities
Health planning
Health surveys
Hospitals
Human behavior
Immigrant health
Immigration
Imports
Influenza
International Affairs
International cooperation
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Law
Liability (Law)
Limitation of actions
Medical malpractice
Medical personnel
Medical research
Medical supplies
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Minorities
Minority health
Paramedical personnel
Pharmaceutical research
Police
Poultry
Preventive medicine
Products liability
Public health
Public service advertising
Public utilities
Recruiting of employees
Refuse and refuse disposal
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Social Welfare
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Vaccination
Vaccines
Veterinary medicine
Volunteer workers
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: 
Influenza Preparedness and Prevention Act of 2005 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to stockpile antivirals, pandemic influenza vaccines, and essential supplies for a pandemic influenza.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit any cause of action for liability related to a qualified pandemic or epidemic product or a security countermeasure, with an exception for willful misconduct.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a buyback protocol to purchase excess stocks of influenza vaccine.
 
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to develop a regulatory roadmap to address issues surrounding emergency use authorization of influenza vaccine.
 
Establishes the Office of Safety Evaluation and Pandemic Preparedness.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop a public education campaign about pandemic influenza and preparedness.
 
Requires the United States Geological Survey to carry out an interagency effort to detect avian influenza in wild birds.
 
Provides for the expansion and intensification of influenza research.
 
Requires the Director of CDC to expand and intensify Global Disease Detection Initiative efforts.
 
Requires the Secretary to submit to the Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) a proposal to study the feasibility of establishing a Pandemic Fund to support pandemic influenza control and relief activities.
 
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to expand and intensify efforts to prevent pandemic influenza.
 
Requires states, as a condition of receiving funds from CDC or the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to have a Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9932-9933)
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Introduced in House