PEPFAR Accountability and Transparency Act
Latest action · Feb 25, 2008 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 25, 2008
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
PEPFAR Accountability and Transparency Act - Amends the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 to direct the Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally to: (1) establish a mechanism to evaluate global HIV/AIDS programs financed by the U.S. government in order to improve accountability, increase transparency, and ensure the delivery of evidence-based services; and (2) develop a five-year strategic plan for program monitoring, operations research, and impact evaluation research.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Foreign Affairs Committee | Referred Feb 25, 2008 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 25, 2008Introduced in House
- Feb 25, 2008Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 110-57 | PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2008 BUDGET REQUEST FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR163 pages | Energy and Natural Resources Committee | Feb 15, 2007 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2584 | PEPFAR Accountability and Transparency Act | Identical bill | Jan 31, 2008 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To establish a program to evaluate HIV/AIDS programs in order to improve accountability, increase transparency, and ensure the delivery of evidence-based services.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- PEPFAR Accountability and Transparency Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
- Africa (Sub-Saharan)
- AIDS (Disease)
- Child health
- Congress
- Congress and foreign policy
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Cost effectiveness
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse prevention
- Evaluation research (Social action programs)
- Families
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Health
- Health counseling
- Health education
- Health planning
- Health surveys
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- International Affairs
- Labor and Employment
- Maternal health services
- Medical personnel
- Medical research
- Occupational health and safety
- Performance measurement
- Preventive medicine
- Quality of care
- Rape
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sex education
- Social Welfare
- Strategic planning
- Women
- Women's health
- World health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 25, 2008Introduced in House
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; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
