American Cures Act

Summary

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 (PAYGO) Act of 2010 and the Senate PAYGO rule.

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Timeline

1. 31 July 2024

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. (text: CR S5685)

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2. 31 July 2024

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

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Versions

• Introduced in Senate · 31 July 2024 · Official file

Documents

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 31 July 2024

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• Introduced in Senate (PDF)

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• Introduced in Senate

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Sponsors

• Richard Durbin · D · Sponsor
• Richard Blumenthal · D · Sponsor
• Chris Van Hollen · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] · D · Cosponsor
• · ssap00 · Standing

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