GLIDER Act
Latest action · Jul 24, 2001 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
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 24, 2001
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Authorizes the Secretary of State to: (1) establish and maintain effective partnerships with specified entities to promote and expand primary prevention efforts; (2) coordinate the activities of the Department of State and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in national program development and implementation, those countries receiving assistance, and local initiatives; (3) establish and maintain a GLIDER task force; (4) coordinate the implementation of this title with foreign governments; (5) determine the foreign countries that should receive assistance; and (6) assist in the design of flexible, large scale national programs.
Directs the Secretary of State to establish and maintain a database that: (1) contains contact information for Federal employees working overseas; and (2) includes information on projects undertaken by, through, or in cooperation with, the Federal Government.
Sets forth provisions regarding coordination of activities and authorities of various officials.
Directs the Secretary of HHS to establish the Paul Coverdell Health Care Corps to help such countries meet their needs for trained health care professionals.
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to establish a five-year pilot program to assist countries with a high disease burden of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria to develop a health care delivery infrastructure.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 24, 2001 to Jan 23, 2002, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Original | Jul 24, 2001 |
| R-OR | Gordon H. Smith | Jan 23, 2002 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 24, 2001Introduced in Senate
- Jul 24, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
- Jul 24, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8132-8133)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
- Access to health care
- AIDS (Disease)
- Alliances
- American economic assistance
- American investments
- Americans employed in foreign countries
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Blood banks
- Case management
- Child health
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Clinics
- Commerce
- Communicable diseases
- Communication in medicine
- Community health services
- Congress
- Congress and foreign policy
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Data banks
- Developing countries
- Discrimination in employment
- Drugs
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Employee rights
- Employee training
- Epidemics
- Epidemiology
- Executive reorganization
- Families
- Federal employees
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government trust funds
- Health
- Health care industry
- Health counseling
- Health education
- Health services administration
- Health surveys
- Higher education
- Home care services
- Hospices (Terminal care)
- Human behavior
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- Infants
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- International Affairs
- Investment guaranty insurance
- Labor and Employment
- Malaria
- Maternal health services
- Medical education
- Medical laboratories
- Medical tests
- Military personnel
- Military training
- Mothers
- Nongovernmental organizations
- Orphans
- Pain
- Pharmaceutical research
- Prescription pricing
- President and foreign policy
- Preventive medicine
- Public health personnel
- Public-private partnerships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sexual abstinence
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Tuberculosis
- United Nations
- Vaccines
- Women
- World health
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