Improved Vaccine Affordability and Availability Act
Latest action · Jul 29, 2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJul 26, 2002
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for a program of research, demonstration projects, and education to ensure that immunizations are routinely offered to adults and adolescents by public and private health care providers. Requires such program to collect data on adverse impacts associated with immunizations.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop and disseminate information concerning certain diseases and their vaccines, including bacterial meningitis and hepatitis A and B; and (2) maintain a 6 months supply of prioritized vaccines.
Revises provisions governing the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, including provisions regarding: (1) equitable relief; (2) parent petitions; (3) jurisdiction to dismiss improperly brought claims; (4) vaccine-unrelated injury; (5) the basis for calculating projected lost earnings; (6) compensation for family counseling and establishing guardianship expenses; (7) payment of interim costs; (8) procedures for paying attorney's fees; (9) extending the statute of limitations; (10) the composition and meeting schedule of the Advisory Committee on Childhood Vaccines; and (11) standards of responsibility and the definitions of manufacturer, vaccine-related injury or death, and vaccine.
Requires the Secretary to contract with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science to conduct an ongoing, comprehensive review of new scientific data on childhood vaccines.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jul 26, 2002.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Edolphus Towns | Original | Jul 26, 2002 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 29, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jul 26, 2002Introduced in House
- Jul 26, 2002Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative procedure
- AIDS (Disease)
- Authorization
- Bacterial diseases
- Brain diseases
- Child health
- Civil actions and liability
- Claims
- Clinics
- Colleges
- Commerce
- Community health services
- Compensation (Law)
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Counseling
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Drug industry
- Earnings
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medical services
- Evidence (Law)
- Families
- Family services
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to medical research
- Fire departments
- Government liability
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Government trust funds
- Governmental investigations
- Guardian and ward
- Health
- Health education
- Health maintenance organizations
- Health planning
- Health warnings
- Hepatitis
- Higher education
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- Influenza
- Injunctions
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Legal fees
- Liability (Law)
- Limitation of actions
- Managed care
- Medical laboratories
- Medical research
- Medical statistics
- Medically uninsured
- Minority health
- Parents
- Parties to actions
- Police
- Prisons
- Public health administration
- Research grants
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Social Welfare
- State laws
- Storage
- Transportation and Public Works
- Travel
- Vaccination
- Vaccines
- Wrongful death
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