American Cures Act This bill permanently funds several federal agencies and programs that perform biomedical research. The bill provides specified funding for the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Defense health program, and the Department of Veterans Affairs medical and prosthetics research program. The bill exempts the funding from sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals. It also exempts the budgetary effects of the funding from the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO) and the Senate PAYGO rule.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. (text: CR S1770-1771)
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American Cures Act
USA117th CongressS-962| Senate
| Updated: 3/24/2021
American Cures Act This bill permanently funds several federal agencies and programs that perform biomedical research. The bill provides specified funding for the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Defense health program, and the Department of Veterans Affairs medical and prosthetics research program. The bill exempts the funding from sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals. It also exempts the budgetary effects of the funding from the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO) and the Senate PAYGO rule.
AppropriationsCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Defense spendingDepartment of DefenseDepartment of Health and Human ServicesDepartment of Veterans AffairsExecutive agency funding and structureHealth programs administration and fundingHealth promotion and preventive careHealth technology, devices, suppliesMedical researchMilitary medicineNational Institutes of Health (NIH)Research administration and fundingResearch and development