S 1560 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Biological Agent-Environmental Detection Act of 2001

Introduced Oct 17, 2001 Originated Senate Sponsor Daniel K. Akaka D-HI

Fact sheet

Latest action · Apr 16, 2002 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2719)

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.

  1. IntroducedOct 17, 2001
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Biological Agent-Environmental Detection Act of 2001 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to form an interagency task force (to include representatives from industry) to encourage public-private research relating to environmental monitoring and detection tools with respect to biological (infectious) agents.

Cosponsors

Members who signed on, in the order they did.

No cosponsors are on file for this measure.

Actions 5

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Apr 16, 2002Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2719)
  2. Dec 7, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12676-12677)
  3. Oct 18, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10795-10796)
  4. Oct 17, 2001Introduced in Senate
  5. Oct 17, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

Support LegiList

This page is free, carries no paywall, and is built and maintained by one person. If the record here is useful to you, a few dollars keeps it going.

$1 $5 $10

Processed by Stripe in a separate window. LegiList never sees card details.

Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.