Immediate COVID Testing Procurement Act.
Latest action · Apr 23, 2020 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
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.
- IntroducedApr 23, 2020
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Immediate COVID Testing Procurement Act
This bill requires the President, within 24 hours of this bill's enactment, to issue purchase orders for a program of the highest national urgency (commonly known as a DX purchase order) to procure under the Defense Production Act of 1950 (DPA) supplies to conduct COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) medical testing nationwide.
The supplies must have received prior approval from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or have received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for the detection of COVID-19.
The bill waives certain DPA requirements relating to industrial resource and critical technology shortfalls and notification to Congress.
Cosponsors 35
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 23, 2020 to May 1, 2020; 28 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-VA | Abigail Davis Spanberger | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-NY | Adriano Espaillat | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-NJ | Albio Sires | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-MD | Anthony G. Brown | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-IL | Bradley Scott Schneider | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-MD | C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-IA | David Loebsack | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-MN | Dean Phillips | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-WA | Derek Kilmer | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne, Jr. | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-TX | Filemon Vela | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-CA | Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-NY | Grace Meng | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-CA | Jared Huffman | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-CA | Judy Chu | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-NY | Kathleen M. Rice | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-NY | Sean Patrick Maloney | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-AL | Terri A. Sewell | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-NY | Thomas R. Suozzi | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-NJ | Tom Malinowski | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-HI | Tulsi Gabbard | Original | Apr 23, 2020 |
| D-LA | Cedric L. Richmond | Apr 28, 2020 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Apr 28, 2020 | |
| D-CA | Tj Cox | Apr 28, 2020 | |
| D-VA | Donald S. Beyer, Jr. | May 1, 2020 | |
| D-VA | Elaine G. Luria | May 1, 2020 | |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | May 1, 2020 | |
| D-FL | Val Butler Demings | May 1, 2020 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Apr 23, 2020 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 23, 2020Introduced in House
- Apr 23, 2020Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
In the Congressional Record 1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H3889 | Madeleine Dean D-PA | Jul 29, 2020 |
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. 166, no. 77, April 23, 2020, page H1957.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for the immediate procurement of COVID-19 medical testing components, materials, and supplies under the Defense Production Act of 1950.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Immediate COVID Testing Procurement Act.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Congressional oversight
- Defense spending
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Government Operations and Politics
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Military procurement, research, weapons development
- Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
- Public contracts and procurement
- War and emergency powers
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 23, 2020Introduced 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.
