Rapid Pathogen Identification to Delivery of Cures Act

Bill: 109-hr-3627
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
Automation
Biological warfare
Biotechnology
Clinical trials
Colleges
Commerce
Communicable diseases
Communication in medicine
Communication in science
Computer simulation
Computer software
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defense contracts
Defense procurement
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Government trust funds
Health planning
Higher education
Human experimentation in medicine
Information technology
Intellectual property
International Affairs
International cooperation in science
Laboratories
Laboratory animals
Law
Legislation
Liability (Law)
Medical technology
Military research
Nonprofit organizations
Pharmaceutical research
Poisons
Public-private partnerships
Research and development
Research centers
Research grants
Robots
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Strategic planning
Technological innovations
Technology transfer
Terrorism
Toxicology
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Rapid Pathogen Identification to Delivery of Cures Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit a report setting forth a strategy to reduce the time frame from pathogen identification to the development and emergency approval for human use of a reasonably safe and effective priority countermeasure against a novel or unknown pathogen or toxin. Requires the report to include: (1) technical impediments to reducing this time frame; (2) research, development, and technology needs to address these impediments; and (3) potential liability concerns stemming from distribution of rapidly-developed priority countermeasures.
 
Allows the Secretary to contract with any firm or institution to conduct necessary research and analysis for this report.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a system to rapidly: (1) establish clinical research programs to examine the safety and efficacy of treatments for novel, unknown, or bioengineered pathogens or toxins; and (2) disseminate results and recommendations to clinicians. Authorizes establishment of a fund to support such clinical research.
 
Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish an interagency working group to carry out this Act.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of HHS to conduct research to rapidly identify, develop, produce, and approve for human use priority countermeasures.
 
Requires the Secretaries of Defense and HHS to carry out research, development, and procurement to provide the federal government with the capability to rapidly identify, develop, produce, and approve for human use under emergency conditions priority countermeasures against a novel, unknown, or engineered pathogen or toxin for which no existing countermeasure has been determined to be safe or efficacious.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities.
action_date: 2005-08-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Homeland Security, 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: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Homeland Security, 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: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Homeland Security, 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: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Homeland Security, 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: 2005-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1712)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in House