American Cures Act
Latest action · Mar 12, 2014 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1586-1587)
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.
- IntroducedMar 12, 2014
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
American Cures Act - Establishes a Biomedical Research Fund to be administered by the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for an expanded and sustained national investment in biomedical research.
Requires amounts to be transferred from the Fund for each fiscal year to accounts related to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Defense (DOD) health program, and the medical and prosthetics research program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that funding for such programs and agencies does not fall below 105% of the level of funding provided for the preceding fiscal year and an additional amount to account for any increases in the Gross Domestic Product for the year involved.
Requires that amounts appropriated for each of such programs and agencies for a fiscal year be not be less than the amounts appropriated for FY2014. Authorizes and appropriates to the Fund such sums as necessary in each fiscal year to enable such transfers.
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act to exempt the Fund from any sequestration order issued under such Act.
Cosponsors 14
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 12, 2014 to Nov 19, 2014; 9 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Barbara Boxer | Original | Mar 12, 2014 |
| D-MD | Benjamin L. Cardin | Original | Mar 12, 2014 |
| D-CA | Dianne Feinstein | Original | Mar 12, 2014 |
| D-MA | Edward J. Markey | Original | Mar 12, 2014 |
| D-RI | Jack Reed | Original | Mar 12, 2014 |
| D-NC | Kay R. Hagan | Original | Mar 12, 2014 |
| D-HI | Mazie K. Hirono | Original | Mar 12, 2014 |
| D-PA | Robert P. Casey Jr. | Original | Mar 12, 2014 |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Original | Mar 12, 2014 |
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Mar 24, 2014 | |
| D-NY | Kirsten E. Gillibrand | Mar 24, 2014 | |
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | Jul 30, 2014 | |
| D-RI | Sheldon Whitehouse | Nov 17, 2014 | |
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | Nov 19, 2014 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee | Referred Mar 12, 2014 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 12, 2014Introduced in Senate
- Mar 12, 2014Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1586-1587)
In the Congressional Record 3
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S2553 | Richard J. Durbin D-IL | Apr 30, 2014 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S2312, S2313 | Barbara Boxer D-CA, Richard J. Durbin D-IL | Apr 9, 2014 |
| Senate | Text printed S1586 | Richard J. Durbin D-IL (text) | Mar 12, 2014 |
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. 113-768 | DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2015715 pages | Appropriations Committee | Apr 2, 2014–May 7, 2014 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 4384 | America HEALS Act | Related bill | Apr 11, 2014 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to provide for the establishment of a fund to provide for an expanded and sustained national investment in biomedical research.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- American Cures Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Appropriations
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Department of Defense
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Government trust funds
- Health
- Health programs administration and funding
- Medical research
- Military medicine
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Research administration and funding
- Veterans' medical care
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 12, 2014Introduced in Senate
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.
