Attacking Viral Influenza Across Nations Act of 2008
Latest action · Apr 25, 2008 Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
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.
- IntroducedDec 6, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Attacking Viral Influenza Across Nations Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit to the Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) a proposal related to establishing a Pandemic Fund for countries affected by pandemic influenza.
Establishes the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Policy Coordinating Committee to develop an Interagency Preparedness Plan.
Requires the Secretary to strengthen, expand, and coordinate domestic pandemic influenza preparedness activities.
Requires states to have an approved state preparedness plan as a condition of receiving funds related to bioterrorism from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of CDC and the Administrator of HRSA, to integrate and coordinate public and private influenza surveillance activities.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) procure doses of antivirals and developed vaccines needed during pandemic influenza for the Strategic National Stockpile; and (2) assist other counties in preparation for, and response to, pandemic influenza. Allows the Secretary to provide vaccines, antiviral medications, and supplies from the Stockpile to foreign countries.
Requires the Secretary to develop and disseminate pandemic influenza training curricula for health professionals and non-medical volunteers.
Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Director of CDC to expand and intensify influenza research.
Directs the Secretary to contract with the Institute of Medicine to study topics related to the pandemic influenza.
Establishes the National Pandemic Influenza Economics Advisory Committee.
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to expand and intensify efforts to prevent pandemic influenza.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 25, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
- Apr 25, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
- Dec 6, 2007Introduced in House
- Dec 6, 2007Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Dec 6, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- Agriculture and Food
- Agriculture in foreign trade
- Ambulatory care
- Animal diseases
- Animals
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Biological warfare
- Birds
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Commerce
- Communicable diseases
- Communication in medicine
- Compensation (Law)
- Congress
- Congress and foreign policy
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Curricula
- Data banks
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Drug industry
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medicine
- Epidemics
- Epidemiology
- Executive reorganization
- Farm income
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government procurement
- Government publicity
- Health
- Health education
- Health information systems
- Health planning
- Health surveys
- Higher education
- Hospital care
- Immigrant health
- Immunology and vaccination
- Influenza
- International Affairs
- International cooperation
- Internet
- Law
- Medical education
- Medical laboratories
- Medical personnel
- Medical research
- Medical statistics
- Medical supplies
- Medically uninsured
- Minorities
- Minority health
- Mortality
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Pharmaceutical research
- Poultry
- Preventive medicine
- Public health administration
- Public-private partnerships
- Research centers
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Security measures
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- Storage
- Technical assistance
- Terrorism
- Vaccines
- Veterinary medicine
- Volunteer workers
- Wild animal trade
- World health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 6, 2007Introduced in House
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