Comprehensive Tuberculosis Elimination Act of 2002
Latest action · Jul 26, 2002 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 526.
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.
- IntroducedJun 27, 2001
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Title II: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Revises the existing tuberculosis research program of the Centers for Disease Control to refocus on issues of latency, drug-resistance, and high-risk populations.
Calls for demonstration projects to include the development of regional capabilities in low incidence areas and collaboration with the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Mexico, and the United States Agency for International Development.
Revises reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 through 2007.
Title III: National Institutes of Health - Authorizes the Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to intensify and coordinate tuberculosis research efforts, including its relationship to HIV.
Authorizes the Director to make Tuberculosis Academic Awards to support clinical curricular programs and Tuberculosis/Pulmonary Infection Awards to support basic biological research as well as new techniques and treatments. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 through 2007.
Requires the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of NIH to work to develop a tuberculosis vaccine. Increases funding, authorizing appropriations through FY 2007.
Requires the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences to carry out an international training program regarding tuberculosis.
Cosponsors 9
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 27, 2001 to Sep 25, 2002, with 4 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-HI | Daniel K. Inouye | Original | Jun 27, 2001 |
| D-NJ | Jon S. Corzine | Original | Jun 27, 2001 |
| R-TX | Kay Bailey Hutchison | Original | Jun 27, 2001 |
| R-AK | Ted Stevens | Original | Jun 27, 2001 |
| D-NM | Jeff Bingaman | Jul 12, 2001 | |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Jul 12, 2001 | |
| D-NJ | Robert G. Torricelli | Jun 10, 2002 | |
| D-LA | Mary L. Landrieu | Jul 8, 2002 | |
| R-OR | Gordon H. Smith | Sep 25, 2002 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 26, 2002Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Kennedy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 107-227. Additional views filed.
- Jul 26, 2002Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 526.
- Jun 19, 2002Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- Jun 27, 2001Introduced in Senate
- Jun 27, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- AIDS (Disease)
- Antibiotics
- Authorization
- Child health
- Clinical trials
- Communicable diseases
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Curriculum planning
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Drug resistance in microorganisms
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Executive reorganization
- Families
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to higher education
- Federal aid to medical education
- Federal aid to medical research
- Federal aid to nursing education
- Government Operations and Politics
- Health
- Health education
- Health planning
- Higher education
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- Immigrant health
- Immigration
- International Affairs
- International agencies
- International cooperation in science
- Latin America
- Lung diseases
- Medical personnel
- Medical technology
- Mexico
- Minorities
- Minorities in medicine
- Osteopathy and osteopaths
- Pharmaceutical research
- Preventive medicine
- Research centers
- Research grants
- Scholarships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scientists
- Social Welfare
- Student loan funds
- Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis research
- Vaccines
- World health
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