Faster Treatments and Cures for Eye Diseases Act
Latest action · May 10, 2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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.
- IntroducedMay 9, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Faster Treatments and Cures for Eye Diseases Act
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a pilot program that provides for a partial federal guarantee of specified bonds, the sale of which shall finance promising translational vision-impairment research with private investment. The Government Accountability Office must study this program and consider whether similar programs should be established for other areas of biomedical research.
Cosponsors 21
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 9, 2019 to Jul 20, 2020; 6 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IL | Bradley Scott Schneider | Original | May 9, 2019 |
| R-PA | Brian K. Fitzpatrick | Original | May 9, 2019 |
| R-WA | Cathy McMorris Rodgers | Original | May 9, 2019 |
| R-FL | Gus M. Bilirakis | Original | May 9, 2019 |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Original | May 9, 2019 |
| D-AZ | Tom O'Halleran | Original | May 9, 2019 |
| R-TX | Kenny Marchant | May 14, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | May 22, 2019 | |
| R-TX | Pete Olson | May 22, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Jun 12, 2019 | |
| D-NC | G. K. Butterfield | Jul 9, 2019 | |
| R-NE | Jeff Fortenberry | Jul 9, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Darren Soto | Jul 10, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Jared Huffman | Aug 9, 2019 | |
| R-FL | John H. Rutherford | Aug 9, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Aug 30, 2019 | |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Aug 30, 2019 | |
| R-MI | Tim Walberg | Aug 30, 2019 | |
| D-AL | Terri A. Sewell | Oct 29, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Mike Levin | Feb 11, 2020 | |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | Jul 20, 2020 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred May 9, 2019 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred May 10, 2019 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 10, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- May 9, 2019Introduced in House
- May 9, 2019Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 77, May 9, 2019, page H3680.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To advance treatment and cures for blindness and other retinal conditions and to promote competitiveness in the United States through a pilot program to increase funding for translational research, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Faster Treatments and Cures for Eye Diseases Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Drug therapy
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Financial services and investments
- Genetics
- Government information and archives
- Government lending and loan guarantees
- Government studies and investigations
- Health
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Hearing, speech, and vision care
- Interest, dividends, interest rates
- Medical research
- Public-private cooperation
- Research administration and funding
- Research and development
- Securities
- User charges and fees
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 9, 2019Introduced 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.
