Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5501
Sponsor: Rep. Berman, Howard L. [D-CA-28]
Introduced: 2008-02-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Agriculture and Food
Antigua and Barbuda
Authorization
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Caribbean area
Central Europe
Child health
Church and social problems
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Comprehensive health care
Condoms
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of State
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Drug abuse
Drug approvals
Drug resistance in microorganisms
Drugs
East Asia
Eastern Europe
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Europe
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal officials
Food relief
Forced labor
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign loans
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Grenada
Health
Health planning
Human immunodeficiency viruses
International relief
Jamaica
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Lesotho
Malaria
Malawi
Maternal health services
Medical personnel
Montserrat
Mothers
Nongovernmental organizations
Nutrition
Orphans
Pharmaceutical research
Preventive medicine
Prostitution
Public health administration
Rape
Religion
Religious liberty
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex crimes
Sexual abstinence
Sexually transmitted diseases
Slavery
Social Welfare
South Asia
Southeast Asia
State-sponsored terrorism
Suriname
Taxation
Technical assistance
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuberculosis
U.S. Agency for International Development
United Nations
Vaccines
Vietnam
Women
Women's health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2008-02-27
text: 
Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 - Directs the Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally to develop a five-year strategic plan for program monitoring, operations research, and impact evaluation research of U.S. HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria programs, including mother-to-child HIV transmission.
 
 Extends funding for: (1) the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria; (2) the Vaccine Fund; (3) the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative; and (4) malaria vaccine development programs.
 
Authorizes appropriations for tuberculosis vaccine research.
 
Directs the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to develop a program to facilitate availability of proven microbicides that prevent the transmission of HIV.
 
Directs the Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally to develop a plan to combat HIV/AIDS by strengthening health policies and health systems of host countries as part of USAID's Health Systems 2020 project.
 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 with respect to assistance programs to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis.
 
Authorizes the President to provide increased resources to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Stop Tuberculosis Partnership.
 
Establishes within USAID a Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat Malaria Globally. 
 
Provides for U.S.-foreign health care partnerships to combat HIV/AIDS.
 
Directs the President to formulate a comprehensive global HIV/AIDS prevention strategy that addresses the vulnerabilities of women and youth to HIV infection. 
 
Amends the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 to extend funding for activities under such Act. Prohibits foreign taxation of such amounts.
 
States that it shall be U.S. policy to support countries receiving U.S. assistance to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and other health programs in developing and implementing five-year health workforce strategies. Authorizes appropriations to carry out such policy.

action_date: 2008-03-10
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 
- Title I: Policy Planning and Coordination
 - (Sec. 101) Amends the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (Act) to revise provisions concerning the comprehensive, five-year, global strategy to combat global HIV/AIDS.
 
Directs the Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally (Coordinator) to develop a five-year strategic plan for program monitoring, operations research, and impact evaluation research of U.S. HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria programs, including mother-to-child HIV transmission.
 
(Sec. 102) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to revise and expand the Coordinator's duties, including providing for: (1) establishment of an interagency working group on HIV/AIDS; (2) coordination of overall U.S. HIV/AIDS policy and programs with host countries and other relevant bilateral and multilateral aid agencies; (3) approval of U.S. programs to combat HIV/AIDS in Vietnam, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dominican Republic; and (4) working with host countries to establish HIV/AIDS prevention programs for injection drug users and participants in the commercial sex trade.
 

Title II: Support and Multilateral Funds, Programs, and Public-Private Partnerships - 
(Sec. 202) Amends the Act to authorize appropriations for the U.S. contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: (1) at specified levels for FY2009-FY2010; and (2) at such sums as may be necessary for FY2011-FY2013.
 
Extends through FY2013 limitations on U.S. contributions to the Fund: (1) exceeding 33% of contributions from all sources; and (2) respecting assistance to countries supporting acts of international terrorism.
 
States that U.S. policy respecting Fund support should be based upon specified transparency and accountability benchmarks.
 
(Sec. 203) Authorizes appropriations through FY2013 for U.S. contributions to: (1) the Vaccine Fund; (2) the International Aids Vaccine Initiative; (3) malaria vaccine development; and (4) tuberculosis vaccine development.
 
(Sec. 204) Directs the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to develop and implement a program to facilitate wide-scale availability of proven microbicides that prevent HIV transmission. Authorizes FY2009-FY 2013 appropriations.
 
(Sec. 205) Directs the Coordinator to develop and implement a plan to combat HIV/AIDS by strengthening host country health policies and systems as part of USAID's Health Systems 2020 project. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, through the Office of Technical Assistance, to provide assistance to host country finance, health, and other relevant ministries to improve their public finance management systems combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Authorizes FY2009-FY2013 appropriations.
 

Title III: Bilateral Efforts - Subtitle A: General Assistance and Programs 
- (Sec. 301) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to set forth HIV/AIDS assistance policy targets to be achieved by 2013.
 
Includes countries in South and Southeast Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe within the scope of assistance to combat HIV/AIDS.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress: (1) respecting assistance to strengthen public health care delivery systems; and (2) that the Coordinator and relevant executive agencies should operate consistent with the &quot;Three One&quot; goals of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAID).
 
Revises and expands the scope of HIV/AIDs prevention activities. 
 
Amends the Act to: (1) authorize appropriations through FY2013 for assistance to combat HIV/AIDS; and (2) obligate amounts from such funds through FY2013 for procurement and distribution of HIV/AIDS pharmaceuticals.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress respecting the importance of food security and nutrition in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care programs. 
 
Directs the Coordinator and USAID to integrate food security and nutrition activities into HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care activities.
 
Authorizes FY2009-FY2013 appropriations for such integrative activities.
 
Provides that organizations, including faith-based organizations, receiving HIV/AIDS-related funds shall not be required to endorse or utilize activities or programs to which they have a moral or religious objection, and shall not discriminated against in the solicitation or issuance of grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements for such refusal.
 
(Sec. 302) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to set forth U.S. policy goals respecting the reduction by 2015 of tuberculosis in countries with high incidence of such disease. 
 
Sets forth eligible tuberculosis control activities, with priority to be given to activities described in the Stop TB Strategy (as defined by this Act). 
 
Authorizes the President, through USAID, to provide increased resources to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Stop Tuberculosis Partnership to improve the capacity of countries with high tuberculosis rates and other affected countries to implement the Stop TB Strategy and specific strategies related to drug resistant tuberculosis.
 
Amends the Act to authorize through FY2013: (1) appropriations for activities to combat tuberculosis; and (2) the use of certain unobligated funds for such activities. 
 
(Sec. 303) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize through FY2013: (1) appropriations for assistance to combat malaria; and (2) the use of certain unobligated funds for such assistance.
 
Amends the Act to direct the President to establish a five-year strategy to combat global malaria. 
 
Establishes within USAID a Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat Malaria Globally who shall have primary responsibility for the oversight and coordination of all resources and global U.S. government activities to combat malaria.
 
Authorizes the President to make a U.S. contribution to the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and WHO to improve the capacity of countries with high rates of malaria and other affected countries to implement comprehensive malaria control programs. 
 
Directs the President to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees respecting U.S. assistance for the prevention, treatment, control, and elimination of malaria. 
 
(Sec. 304) Amends the Act to direct the President, through the Coordinator, to support the development of partnerships between U.S. and foreign institutions, including national and local health agencies, medical facilities, health education and training institutions, and faith- and community-based organizations involved in prevention, treatment and care of individuals with HIV/AIDS. Authorizes FY2009-FY2013 appropriations.
 

Subtitle B: Assistance for Women, Children, and Families
 - (Sec. 311) Amends the Act to revise requirements of the five-year strategy to combat HIV/AIDS as it pertains to mother-to-child transmission, care and treatment of family members, and care for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. 
 
(Sec. 312) Extends from 5 years to 10 years the annual presidential reporting requirement respecting the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.
 
(Sec. 313) Directs the President to: (1) formulate a comprehensive global HIV/AIDS prevention strategy that addresses the vulnerabilities of women and youth to HIV infection and seeks to reduce the factors that lead to gender disparities in the rate of HIV infection (includes among the elements of such strategy HIV/AIDS prevention education); (2) provide strategy-based guidance to U.S. government field missions in appropriate countries; and (3) transmit such strategy and guidance to the appropriate congressional committees and make such information available to the public.
 

Title IV: Authorization of Appropriations 
- (Sec. 401) Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Act through FY2013.
 
(Sec. 403) Amends the Act respecting fund allocation provisions to require that: (1) 20% of all HIV/AIDS program funds be used for HIV prevention programs; (2) the Coordinator provide balanced funding for prevention activities for sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS and ensure that behavioral change programs (abstinence, delay of sexual debut, monogamy, partner reduction) are implemented for each host country based on objective epidemiological evidence as to the source of infection and in consultation with host country governments; (3) the Coordinator establish a HIV sexual transmission prevention strategy governing fund expenditures in any host country with a generalized HIV epidemic; and (4) the President report to the appropriate congressional committees respecting balanced funding.
 
Extends the set-aside for assistance for orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS through FY2013.
 
(Sec. 404) Prohibits foreign taxation (other than de minimus taxes) of assistance under the Act. Reprograms any funds withheld because of such taxation for HIV/AIDS assistance to another country. 
 

Title V: Sustainability and Strengthening of Health Care Systems - 
(Sec. 501) Amends the Act to add a title VI (Sustainability and Strengthening of Health Care Systems).
 
States that it shall be U.S. policy to support countries receiving U.S. assistance to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and other health programs in developing and implementing five-year health workforce strategies.
 
Authorizes USAID to provide technical and financial assistance to such countries. Sets forth activities to be supported by such assistance.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress respecting the provision of comprehensive health care for HIV/AIDS health care workers.
 
Directs the Coordinator to work with the Secretary of the Treasury to reform International Monetary Fund (IMF) macroeconomic and fiscal policies that result in limitations on national and donor investments in health. 
 
Directs the Coordinator to: (1) work with the Partnership for Supply Chain Management Systems, host countries, and nongovernmental organizations to develop host country-owned and operated public-sector procurement and supply chain management systems; (2) work with host country partners and development partners to support drug approval and registration systems that allow expeditious access to safe and effective drugs, including antiretroviral drugs; and (3) report annually to the appropriate congressional committees respecting such activities.
 
Authorizes FY2009-FY2013 appropriations for title VI. 

action_date: 2008-04-02
text: 
Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 
- Title I: Policy Planning and Coordination
 - (Sec. 101) Amends the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (Act) to revise provisions concerning the comprehensive, five-year, global strategy to combat global HIV/AIDS.
 
Directs the Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally (Coordinator) to develop a five-year strategic plan for program monitoring, operations research, and impact evaluation research of U.S. HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria programs, including mother-to-child HIV transmission.
 
(Sec. 102) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to revise and expand the Coordinator's duties, including providing for: (1) establishment of an interagency working group on HIV/AIDS; (2) coordination of overall U.S. HIV/AIDS policy and programs with host countries and other relevant bilateral and multilateral aid agencies; (3) approval of U.S. programs to combat HIV/AIDS in Vietnam, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, the Dominican Republic,Malawi, Swaziland, and Lesotho; and (4) working with host countries to establish HIV/AIDS prevention programs for injection drug users and participants in the commercial sex trade.
 

Title II: Support and Multilateral Funds, Programs, and Public-Private Partnerships - 
(Sec. 202) Amends the Act to authorize appropriations for the U.S. contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: (1) at specified levels for FY2009-FY2010; and (2) at sums as may be necessary for FY2011-FY2013.
 
Extends through FY2013 limitations on U.S. contributions to the Fund: (1) exceeding 33% of contributions from all sources; and (2) respecting assistance to countries supporting acts of international terrorism.
 
States that U.S. policy respecting Fund support should be based upon specified transparency and accountability benchmarks.
 
(Sec. 203) Authorizes appropriations through FY2013 for U.S. contributions to: (1) the Vaccine Fund; (2) the International Aids Vaccine Initiative; (3) malaria vaccine development; and (4) tuberculosis vaccine development.
 
(Sec. 204) Directs the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to develop and implement a program to facilitate wide-scale availability of proven microbicides that prevent HIV transmission. Authorizes FY2009-FY2013 appropriations.
 
(Sec. 205) Directs the Coordinator to develop and implement a plan to combat HIV/AIDS by strengthening host country health policies and systems as part of USAID's Health Systems 2020 project. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, through the Office of Technical Assistance, to provide assistance to host country finance, health, and other relevant ministries to improve their public finance management systems combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Authorizes FY2009-FY2013 appropriations.
 

Title III: Bilateral Efforts - Subtitle A: General Assistance and Programs 
- (Sec. 301) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to set forth HIV/AIDS assistance policy targets to be achieved by 2013.
 
Includes countries in South and Southeast Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe within the scope of assistance to combat HIV/AIDS.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress: (1) respecting assistance to strengthen public health care delivery systems; and (2) that the Coordinator and relevant executive agencies should operate consistent with the &quot;Three One&quot; goals of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAID).
 
Revises and expands the scope of HIV/AIDs prevention activities. 
 
Amends the Act to: (1) authorize appropriations through FY2013 for assistance to combat HIV/AIDS; and (2) obligate amounts from such funds through FY2013 for procurement and distribution of HIV/AIDS pharmaceuticals.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress respecting the importance of food security and nutrition in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care programs. 
 
Directs the Coordinator and USAID to integrate food security and nutrition activities into HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care activities.
 
Authorizes FY2009-FY2013 appropriations for such integrative activities.
 
Provides that organizations, including faith-based organizations, receiving HIV/AIDS-related funds shall not be required to endorse or utilize activities or programs to which they have a moral or religious objection, and shall not discriminated against in the solicitation or issuance of grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements for such refusal.
 
(Sec. 302) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to set forth U.S. policy goals respecting the reduction by 2015 of tuberculosis in countries with high incidence of such disease. 
 
Sets forth eligible tuberculosis control activities, with priority to be given to activities described in the Stop TB Strategy (as defined by this Act). 
 
Authorizes the President, through USAID, to provide increased resources to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Stop Tuberculosis Partnership to improve the capacity of countries with high tuberculosis rates and other affected countries to implement the Stop TB Strategy and specific strategies related to drug resistant tuberculosis.
 
Amends the Act to authorize through FY2013: (1) appropriations for activities to combat tuberculosis; and (2) the use of certain unobligated funds for such activities. 
 
(Sec. 303) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize through FY2013: (1) appropriations for assistance to combat malaria; and (2) the use of certain unobligated funds for such assistance.
 
Amends the Act to direct the President to establish a five-year strategy to combat global malaria. 
 
Establishes within USAID a Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat Malaria Globally who shall have primary responsibility for the oversight and coordination of all resources and global U.S. government activities to combat malaria.
 
Authorizes the President to make a U.S. contribution to the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and WHO to improve the capacity of countries with high rates of malaria and other affected countries to implement comprehensive malaria control programs. 
 
Directs the President to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees respecting U.S. assistance for the prevention, treatment, control, and elimination of malaria. 
 
(Sec. 304) Amends the Act to direct the President, through the Coordinator, to support the development of partnerships between U.S. and foreign institutions, including national and local health agencies, medical facilities, health education and training institutions, and faith- and community-based organizations involved in the prevention, treatment, and care of individuals with HIV/AIDS. Authorizes FY2009-FY2013 appropriations.
 

Subtitle B: Assistance for Women, Children, and Families
 - (Sec. 311) Amends the Act to revise requirements of the five-year strategy to combat HIV/AIDS as it pertains to mother-to-child transmission, care and treatment of family members, and care for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. 
 
(Sec. 312) Extends from 5 years to 10 years the annual presidential reporting requirement respecting the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.
 
(Sec. 313) Directs the President to: (1) formulate a comprehensive global HIV/AIDS prevention strategy that addresses the vulnerabilities of women and youth to HIV infection and seeks to reduce the factors that lead to gender disparities in the rate of HIV infection (includes among the elements of such strategy HIV/AIDS prevention education); (2) provide strategy-based guidance to U.S. government field missions in appropriate countries; and (3) transmit such strategy and guidance to the appropriate congressional committees and make such information available to the public.
 

Title IV: Authorization of Appropriations 
- (Sec. 401) Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Act through FY2013.
 
(Sec. 403) Amends the Act respecting fund allocation provisions to require that: (1) 20% of all HIV/AIDS program funds be used for HIV prevention programs; (2) the Coordinator provide balanced funding for prevention activities for sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS and ensure that behavioral change programs (abstinence, delay of sexual debut, monogamy, partner reduction) are implemented for each host country based on objective epidemiological evidence as to the source of infection and in consultation with host country governments; (3) the Coordinator establish a HIV sexual transmission prevention strategy governing fund expenditures in any host country with a generalized HIV epidemic; and (4) the President report to the appropriate congressional committees respecting balanced funding.
 
Extends the set-aside for assistance for orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS through FY2013.
 
(Sec. 404) Prohibits foreign taxation (other than de minimus taxes) of assistance under the Act. Reprograms any funds withheld because of such taxation for HIV/AIDS assistance to another country. 
 

Title V: Sustainability and Strengthening of Health Care Systems - 
(Sec. 501) Amends the Act to add a title VI (Sustainability and Strengthening of Health Care Systems).
 
States that it shall be U.S. policy to support countries receiving U.S. assistance to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and other health programs in developing and implementing five-year health workforce strategies.
 
Authorizes USAID to provide technical and financial assistance to such countries. Sets forth activities to be supported by such assistance.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress respecting the provision of comprehensive health care for HIV/AIDS health care workers.
 
Directs the Coordinator to work with the Secretary of the Treasury to reform International Monetary Fund (IMF) macroeconomic and fiscal policies that result in limitations on national and donor investments in health. 
 
Directs the Coordinator to: (1) work with the Partnership for Supply Chain Management Systems, host countries, and nongovernmental organizations to develop host country-owned and operated public-sector procurement and supply chain management systems; (2) work with host country partners and development partners to support drug approval and registration systems that allow expeditious access to safe and effective drugs, including antiretroviral drugs; and (3) report annually to the appropriate congressional committees respecting such activities.
 
Authorizes FY2009-FY2013 appropriations for title VI. 

action_date: 2008-07-16
text: 
Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 - 
Title I: Policy Planning and Coordination - 
(Sec. 101) Amends the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (Act) to revise the provisions of the President's comprehensive five-year global strategy (and related report) to combat HIV/AIDS.

Directs the Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally (Coordinator) to: (1) commission a study by the Institute of Medicine to assess progress and outcomes of U.S. global HIV/AIDS programs (authorizes appropriations for such study); and (2) publish a best practices report.

Requires a report from the Comptroller General.

Directs the Inspectors General of the Department of State and Broadcasting Board of Governors, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to jointly develop five coordinated annual plans for oversight activity. Authorizes funding.

(Sec. 102) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to revise and expand the Coordinator's duties, including providing for: (1) establishment of an interagency working group on HIV/AIDS; (2) coordination of overall U.S. HIV/AIDS policy and programs with host countries and other relevant bilateral and multilateral aid agencies; (3) approval of U.S. programs to combat HIV/AIDS in Vietnam; and (4) working with host countries to establish HIV/AIDS prevention programs for injection drug users and participants in the commercial sex trade.

Adds Vietnam to the list of countries approved for activities relating to combating HIV/AIDS.

 (Sec. 103) Expresses the sense of Congress about the importance of country coordinators, foreign service nationals, and staffing levels for country teams. 

Title II: Support and Multilateral Funds, Programs, and Public-Private Partnerships
 - (Sec. 201) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize FY2009-FY2013 appropriations for U.S. contributions to: (1) tuberculosis vaccine development programs, which may include the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation; (2) the Vaccine Fund; (3) the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative; and (4) the Malaria Vaccine Initiative of the Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health (PATH).

(Sec. 202) Authorizes FY2009-FY2013 appropriations for the U.S. contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Extends through FY2013 limitations on U.S. contributions to the Fund: (1) exceeding 33% of contributions from all sources; and (2) respecting assistance to countries supporting acts of international terrorism (includes a discretionary presidential waiver for specified assistance to Sudan if in the U.S. national interest).

States that the United States shall work with the Global Fund to dissuade governments from imposing duties, tariffs, or taxes on Global Fund-provided goods or services.

Withholds 20% of FY2010-FY2013 appropriations for the Global Fund until the Secretary of State certifies achievement of certain accountability and transparency benchmarks. 

(Sec. 203) States that Congress recognizes the need to expand the range of interventions for preventing the transmission of HIV, including non-vaccine prevention methods that can be controlled by women.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Office of AIDS Research (of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)) to expedite implementation of federal strategic plans for microbicide research and update such plans. 

Directs the the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (of NIH) to conduct microbicide research on, and development of, methods for women to prevent HIV transmission, which may include microbicides.

Encourages the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to implement the Centers' microbicide agenda to support microbicide research and development for prevention of HIV transmission. Authorizes FY2009-2013 appropriations. 

States that USAID, in cooperation with the Coordinator, may facilitate wide scale availability of microbicides that prevent the transmission of HIV if such microbicides are Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved. Authorizes FY2009-FY2013 appropriations.

(Sec. 204) Amends the Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, through the Office of Technical Assistance, to provide technical assistance to host countries to improve their public finance management systems in order to receive assistance and operate their own programs to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. Authorizes FY2009-FY2013 appropriations.

(Sec. 205) Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to participate with other countries in cooperative research, health care services, and other related activities. 

Eliminates the provision prohibiting the Secretary from providing financial assistance for facility construction in a foreign country.

(Sec. 206) Authorizes USAID to strengthen the capacity of developing countries to: (1) conduct proper protocols for the introduction of new and safe vaccines; (2) review protocols for, and improve implementation of, clinical trials and impact studies; and (3) ensure adequate supply chain and delivery systems.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) enter into negotiations with appropriate entities including the World Bank and GAVI Alliance to establish advanced market commitments to purchase vaccines to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other related infectious diseases; and (2) report to the appropriate congressional committees.

Directs the President to produce a report setting forth a strategy for vaccine development. 

Title III: Bilateral Efforts - Subtitle A: General Assistance and Programs 
- (Sec. 301) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 with respect to HIV/AIDS assistance policy objectives and goals to be achieved by 2013. 

Includes countries in Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America within the scope of assistance to combat HIV/AIDS.

Revises and expands the scope of HIV/AIDS prevention activities. 

Sets forth congressional findings respecting compacts and framework agreements.

Revises annual report provisions.

Amends the Act to: (1) authorize appropriations through FY2013 for assistance to combat HIV/AIDS; and (2) obligate amounts from such funds through FY2013 for procurement and distribution of HIV/AIDS pharmaceuticals. 

Directs the Coordinator and USAID to integrate food security and nutrition activities into HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care activities. Authorizes FY2009-FY2013 appropriations for such integrative activities. 

Provides that organizations, including faith-based organizations, receiving HIV/AIDS-related funds shall not be required to endorse or utilize activities or programs to which they have a moral or religious objection, and shall not discriminated against in the solicitation or issuance of grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements for such refusal. 

(Sec. 302) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to set forth U.S. policy goals respecting the reduction of tuberculosis in countries with high incidence of such disease. 

Sets forth eligible tuberculosis control activities, with priority to be given to activities described in the Stop TB Strategy (as defined by this Act). 

Authorizes the President, through USAID, to provide increased resources to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Stop Tuberculosis Partnership to improve the capacity of countries with high tuberculosis rates and other affected countries to implement the Stop TB Strategy and specific strategies related to drug resistant tuberculosis.

Amends the Act to authorize through FY2013: (1) appropriations for activities to combat tuberculosis; and (2) the use of certain unobligated funds for such activities. 

(Sec. 303) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize through FY2013: (1) appropriations for assistance to combat malaria; and (2) the use of certain unobligated funds for such assistance.

Amends the Act to direct the President to establish a five-year strategy to combat global malaria. 

(Sec. 304) Establishes within USAID a Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat Malaria Globally who shall have primary responsibility for the oversight and coordination of all resources and global U.S. government activities to combat malaria.

Authorizes the President to make a U.S. contribution to the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and WHO to improve the capacity of countries with high rates of malaria and other affected countries to implement comprehensive malaria control programs. 

Sets forth provisions establishing CDC malaria research and monitoring duties.

Directs the President to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees respecting U.S. assistance for the prevention, treatment, control, and elimination of malaria. 

(Sec. 305) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate infection with the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) as a public health grounds for alien nonadmission.

(Sec. 307) Amends the Act to revise requirements of the five-year strategy to combat HIV/AIDS as it pertains to mother-to-child transmission, care and treatment of family members, and care for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. 

(Sec. 308) Extends from 5 years to 10 years the annual presidential reporting requirement respecting the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.

(Sec. 309) Directs the Coordinator to establish a panel of experts to be known as the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Panel to: (1) review activities to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV; and (2) recommend to the Coordinator and to the appropriate congressional committees increases of mother-to-child transmission prevention services. Authorizes FY2009-FY2011 appropriations for the Panel.

 Directs the Panel to submit its recommendations to the appropriate congressional committees. Terminates the panel 60 days after the report's submission. 

Title IV: Funding Allocations
 - (Sec. 401) Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Act through FY2013.

(Sec. 403) Directs the Coordinator to: (1) provide balanced funding for prevention activities for sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS; (2) ensure that abstinence, delay of sexual debut, monogamy, fidelity and partner reduction programs are implemented and funded in each host country's strategy; and (3) establish an HIV sexual transmission prevention strategy governing funding to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV in any host country with a generalized epidemic. 

Extends through FY2013, and revises, the set-aside for assistance for orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS.

Requires that for FY2009-FY2013 more than half of appropriations for bilateral global HIV/AIDS assistance shall be expended for: (1) antiretroviral treatment; (2) clinical monitoring of HIV-seropositive people not in need of antiretroviral treatment; (3) care for associated opportunistic infections; (4) nutrition and food support for people living with HIV/AIDS; and (5) other essential medical care for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Title V: Miscellaneous 
- (Sec. 501) Directs the Secretary of State to increase by $1 the fee for processing machine readable nonimmigrant visas and machine readable combined border crossing identification cards and nonimmigrant visas by October 1, 2010, and by an additional $1 by October 1, 2013.

Title VI: Emergency Plan for Indian Safety and Health
 - (Sec. 601) Establishes in the Treasury the Emergency Fund for Indian Safety and Health.

Authorizes appropriations to be transferred from the Treasury to the Fund for the five-year period beginning on October 1, 2008.

Directs the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with Indian tribes, to establish an emergency plan that addresses law enforcement, water, and health care needs of Indian tribes for each of FY2010-FY2019.

action_date: 2008-07-30
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on July 16, 2008. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 - 
Title I: Policy Planning and Coordination - 
(Sec. 101) Amends the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (Act) to revise the provisions of the President's comprehensive five-year global strategy (and related report) to combat HIV/AIDS.

Directs the Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally (Coordinator) to: (1) commission a study by the Institute of Medicine to assess progress and outcomes of U.S. global HIV/AIDS programs (authorizes appropriations for such study); and (2) publish a best practices report.

Requires a report from the Comptroller General.

Directs the Inspectors General of the Department of State and Broadcasting Board of Governors, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to jointly develop five coordinated annual plans for oversight activity. Authorizes funding.

(Sec. 102) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to revise and expand the Coordinator's duties, including providing for: (1) establishment of an interagency working group on HIV/AIDS; (2) coordination of overall U.S. HIV/AIDS policy and programs with host countries and other relevant bilateral and multilateral aid agencies; (3) approval of U.S. programs to combat HIV/AIDS in Vietnam; and (4) working with host countries to establish HIV/AIDS prevention programs for injection drug users and participants in the commercial sex trade.

Adds Vietnam to the list of countries approved for activities relating to combating HIV/AIDS.

 (Sec. 103) Expresses the sense of Congress about the importance of country coordinators, foreign service nationals, and staffing levels for country teams. 

Title II: Support and Multilateral Funds, Programs, and Public-Private Partnerships
 - (Sec. 201) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize FY2009-FY2013 appropriations for U.S. contributions to: (1) tuberculosis vaccine development programs, which may include the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation; (2) the Vaccine Fund; (3) the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative; and (4) the Malaria Vaccine Initiative of the Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health (PATH).

(Sec. 202) Authorizes FY2009-FY2013 appropriations for the U.S. contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Extends through FY2013 limitations on U.S. contributions to the Fund: (1) exceeding 33% of contributions from all sources; and (2) respecting assistance to countries supporting acts of international terrorism (includes a discretionary presidential waiver for specified assistance to Sudan if in the U.S. national interest).

States that the United States shall work with the Global Fund to dissuade governments from imposing duties, tariffs, or taxes on Global Fund-provided goods or services.

Withholds 20% of FY2010-FY2013 appropriations for the Global Fund until the Secretary of State certifies achievement of certain accountability and transparency benchmarks. 

(Sec. 203) States that Congress recognizes the need to expand the range of interventions for preventing the transmission of HIV, including non-vaccine prevention methods that can be controlled by women.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Office of AIDS Research (of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)) to expedite implementation of federal strategic plans for microbicide research and update such plans. 

Directs the the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (of NIH) to conduct microbicide research on, and development of, methods for women to prevent HIV transmission, which may include microbicides.

Encourages the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to implement the Centers' microbicide agenda to support microbicide research and development for prevention of HIV transmission. Authorizes FY2009-2013 appropriations. 

States that USAID, in cooperation with the Coordinator, may facilitate wide scale availability of microbicides that prevent the transmission of HIV if such microbicides are Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved. Authorizes FY2009-FY2013 appropriations.

(Sec. 204) Amends the Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, through the Office of Technical Assistance, to provide technical assistance to host countries to improve their public finance management systems in order to receive assistance and operate their own programs to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. Authorizes FY2009-FY2013 appropriations.

(Sec. 205) Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to participate with other countries in cooperative research, health care services, and other related activities. 

Eliminates the provision prohibiting the Secretary from providing financial assistance for facility construction in a foreign country.

(Sec. 206) Authorizes USAID to strengthen the capacity of developing countries to: (1) conduct proper protocols for the introduction of new and safe vaccines; (2) review protocols for, and improve implementation of, clinical trials and impact studies; and (3) ensure adequate supply chain and delivery systems.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) enter into negotiations with appropriate entities including the World Bank and GAVI Alliance to establish advanced market commitments to purchase vaccines to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other related infectious diseases; and (2) report to the appropriate congressional committees.

Directs the President to produce a report setting forth a strategy for vaccine development. 

Title III: Bilateral Efforts - Subtitle A: General Assistance and Programs 
- (Sec. 301) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 with respect to HIV/AIDS assistance policy objectives and goals to be achieved by 2013. 

Includes countries in Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America within the scope of assistance to combat HIV/AIDS.

Revises and expands the scope of HIV/AIDS prevention activities. 

Sets forth congressional findings respecting compacts and framework agreements.

Revises annual report provisions.

Amends the Act to: (1) authorize appropriations through FY2013 for assistance to combat HIV/AIDS; and (2) obligate amounts from such funds through FY2013 for procurement and distribution of HIV/AIDS pharmaceuticals. 

Directs the Coordinator and USAID to integrate food security and nutrition activities into HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care activities. Authorizes FY2009-FY2013 appropriations for such integrative activities. 

Provides that organizations, including faith-based organizations, receiving HIV/AIDS-related funds shall not be required to endorse or utilize activities or programs to which they have a moral or religious objection, and shall not discriminated against in the solicitation or issuance of grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements for such refusal. 

(Sec. 302) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to set forth U.S. policy goals respecting the reduction of tuberculosis in countries with high incidence of such disease. 

Sets forth eligible tuberculosis control activities, with priority to be given to activities described in the Stop TB Strategy (as defined by this Act). 

Authorizes the President, through USAID, to provide increased resources to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Stop Tuberculosis Partnership to improve the capacity of countries with high tuberculosis rates and other affected countries to implement the Stop TB Strategy and specific strategies related to drug resistant tuberculosis.

Amends the Act to authorize through FY2013: (1) appropriations for activities to combat tuberculosis; and (2) the use of certain unobligated funds for such activities. 

(Sec. 303) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize through FY2013: (1) appropriations for assistance to combat malaria; and (2) the use of certain unobligated funds for such assistance.

Amends the Act to direct the President to establish a five-year strategy to combat global malaria. 

(Sec. 304) Establishes within USAID a Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat Malaria Globally who shall have primary responsibility for the oversight and coordination of all resources and global U.S. government activities to combat malaria.

Authorizes the President to make a U.S. contribution to the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and WHO to improve the capacity of countries with high rates of malaria and other affected countries to implement comprehensive malaria control programs. 

Sets forth provisions establishing CDC malaria research and monitoring duties.

Directs the President to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees respecting U.S. assistance for the prevention, treatment, control, and elimination of malaria. 

(Sec. 305) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate infection with the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) as a public health grounds for alien nonadmission.

(Sec. 307) Amends the Act to revise requirements of the five-year strategy to combat HIV/AIDS as it pertains to mother-to-child transmission, care and treatment of family members, and care for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. 

(Sec. 308) Extends from 5 years to 10 years the annual presidential reporting requirement respecting the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.

(Sec. 309) Directs the Coordinator to establish a panel of experts to be known as the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Panel to: (1) review activities to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV; and (2) recommend to the Coordinator and to the appropriate congressional committees increases of mother-to-child transmission prevention services. Authorizes FY2009-FY2011 appropriations for the Panel.

 Directs the Panel to submit its recommendations to the appropriate congressional committees. Terminates the panel 60 days after the report's submission. 

Title IV: Funding Allocations
 - (Sec. 401) Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Act through FY2013.

(Sec. 403) Directs the Coordinator to: (1) provide balanced funding for prevention activities for sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS; (2) ensure that abstinence, delay of sexual debut, monogamy, fidelity and partner reduction programs are implemented and funded in each host country's strategy; and (3) establish an HIV sexual transmission prevention strategy governing funding to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV in any host country with a generalized epidemic. 

Extends through FY2013, and revises, the set-aside for assistance for orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS.

Requires that for FY2009-FY2013 more than half of appropriations for bilateral global HIV/AIDS assistance shall be expended for: (1) antiretroviral treatment; (2) clinical monitoring of HIV-seropositive people not in need of antiretroviral treatment; (3) care for associated opportunistic infections; (4) nutrition and food support for people living with HIV/AIDS; and (5) other essential medical care for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Title V: Miscellaneous 
- (Sec. 501) Directs the Secretary of State to increase by $1 the fee for processing machine readable nonimmigrant visas and machine readable combined border crossing identification cards and nonimmigrant visas by October 1, 2010, and by an additional $1 by October 1, 2013.

Title VI: Emergency Plan for Indian Safety and Health
 - (Sec. 601) Establishes in the Treasury the Emergency Fund for Indian Safety and Health.

Authorizes appropriations to be transferred from the Treasury to the Fund for the five-year period beginning on October 1, 2008.

Directs the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with Indian tribes, to establish an emergency plan that addresses law enforcement, water, and health care needs of Indian tribes for each of FY2010-FY2019.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-30
text: Became Public Law No: 110-293.
action_date: 2008-07-30
text: Became Public Law No: 110-293.
action_date: 2008-07-30
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2008-07-30
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2008-07-25
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2008-07-25
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2008-07-24
text: Cleared for White House.
action_date: 2008-07-24
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-07-24
text: On motion that the House agree to the Senate amendment Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 303 - 115 (Roll no. 531). (text as House agreed to Senate amendment: CR H7079-7110)
action_date: 2008-07-24
text: Resolving differences -- House actions: On motion that the House agree to the Senate amendment Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 303 - 115 (Roll no. 531).(text as House agreed to Senate amendment: CR H7079-7110)
action_date: 2008-07-24
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H7132-7133)
action_date: 2008-07-24
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - Pursuant to the provisions in section 2 of H.Res. 1362, the Chair may postpone further consideration of the motion.
action_date: 2008-07-24
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H7122)
action_date: 2008-07-24
text: The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Berman motion to agree to the Senate amendment to H.R. 5501.
action_date: 2008-07-24
text: Mr. Berman moved that the House agree to the Senate amendment. (consideration: CR H7110)
action_date: 2008-07-24
text: Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 1362, Mr. Berman took from the Speaker's table H.R. 5501 with the Senate amendment thereto, and was recoginzed for a motion. (consideration: CR H7097-7122)
action_date: 2008-07-17
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: See also S. 2731.
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 80 - 16. Record Vote Number: 182. (text: CR S6842-6855)
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 80 - 16. Record Vote Number: 182.(text: CR S6842-6855)
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Senate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S. 2731 amended.
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S6838-6857)
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2008-04-03
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 5501.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 308 - 116 (Roll no. 158).
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 308 - 116 (Roll no. 158).
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 175 - 248 (Roll no. 157).
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H1941)
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Ryan (WI) motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with amendments that reduce the authorization level specified in the bill from $50 billion to $30 billion.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: Mr. Ryan (WI) moved to recommit with instructions to Foreign Affairs. (consideration: CR H1939-1941; text: CR H1939)
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: The House adopted the amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H1939)
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 5501.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1065, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Carson amendment.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1065, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the McCollum amendment.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1065, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Fortenberry amendment.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1065, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Blumenauer amendment.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with two hours of general debate on H.R. 5501.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: The Speaker designated the Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton to act as Chairwoman of the Committee.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 1065 and Rule XVIII.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5501 with 2 hours of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 1065. (consideration: CR H1904-1942; text as reported in House: CR H1921-1934)
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: Rule H. Res. 1065 passed House.
action_date: 2008-04-01
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 1065 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5501 with 2 hours of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI.
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Supplemental report filed by the Committee on Foreign Affairs, H. Rept. 110-546, Part II.
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Supplemental report filed by the Committee on Foreign Affairs, H. Rept. 110-546, Part II.
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: PERMISSION TO FILE SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT - By unanimous consent, the Committee on Foreign Affairs was granted permission to file a supplemental report on the bill H.R. 5501.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 333.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Committee on Financial Services discharged.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Committee on Financial Services discharged.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Reported by the Committee on Foreign Affairs. H. Rept. 110-546, Part I.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Reported by the Committee on Foreign Affairs. H. Rept. 110-546, Part I.
action_date: 2008-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2008-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2008-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2008-02-27
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2008-02-27
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2008-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-02-27
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 110-293