HR 391 · 117th Congress 2021–2023, ended

Global Health Security Act of 2021

Introduced Jan 21, 2021 Originated House Sponsor Gerald E. Connolly D-VA

Latest action · Jul 12, 2021 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

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.

IntroducedJan 21, 2021
Passed HouseJun 28, 2021
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Global Health Security Act of 2021

This bill directs the United States to implement a strategy to strengthen global health security, including by requiring the President to create the Global Health Security Agenda Interagency Review Council to implement the Global Health Security Agenda. The agenda is an initiative launched by nearly 30 nations to address global infectious disease threats.

The council's responsibilities include (1) providing policy recommendations on agenda-related goals, objectives, implementation, and other international efforts to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response; (2) helping federal agencies with implementation; and (3) reviewing the progress and challenges in achieving U.S. commitments, including assistance to help other countries meet agenda targets. The bill also directs the federal agencies involved with the agenda to prioritize its implementation and to take certain steps to achieve that goal.

The President shall coordinate a strategy for responding to global health security emergencies and submit a report on the implementation of this strategy.

Additionally, the Department of State should seek to enter into negotiations with donors, relevant United Nations agencies, and other multilateral stakeholders to establish a Fund for Global Health Security and Pandemic Preparedness that (1) closes gaps in global health security and pandemic preparedness; and (2) builds capacity in eligible partner countries related to global health security, infectious disease control, and pandemic preparedness. The fund should provide grants, technical assistance, and innovative funding mechanisms to achieve its purposes.

Recorded votes 1

Newest first. Open one to see how every member voted.

Roll call	Question	Result	Date
House 188	On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended	Passed307–112	Jun 28, 2021

Cosponsors 77

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 21, 2021 to Jun 28, 2021; 56 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-VA	Abigail Davis Spanberger	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-NY	Adriano Espaillat	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-NJ	Albio Sires	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-CA	Ami Bera	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-MI	Andy Levin	Original	Jan 21, 2021
R-MO	Ann Wagner	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-CA	Brad Sherman	Original	Jan 21, 2021
R-PA	Brian K. Fitzpatrick	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-PA	Chrissy Houlahan	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-FL	Darren Soto	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-MD	David J. Trone	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-RI	David N. Cicilline	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-MN	Dean Phillips	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-WA	Derek Kilmer	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-NV	Dina Titus	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-HI	Ed Case	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-NY	Grace Meng	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-CT	Jahana Hayes	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-RI	James R. Langevin	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-VA	Jennifer Wexton	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-TN	Jim Cooper	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-CA	Jim Costa	Original	Jan 21, 2021
R-SC	Joe Wilson	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-OH	Joyce Beatty	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-CA	Julia Brownley	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-CA	Karen Bass	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-DE	Lisa Blunt Rochester	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-FL	Lois Frankel	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-MA	Lori Trahan	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-PA	Madeleine Dean	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-PA	Matt Cartwright	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-NY	Paul Tonko	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-WA	Rick Larsen	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-CA	Ro Khanna	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-IL	Sean Casten	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch	Original	Jan 21, 2021
R-OH	Steve Chabot	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-CA	Ted Lieu	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-NY	Thomas R. Suozzi	Original	Jan 21, 2021
R-OK	Tom Cole	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-NJ	Tom Malinowski	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-TX	Vicente Gonzalez	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-MA	William R. Keating	Original	Jan 21, 2021
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Jan 28, 2021
D-CA	Josh Harder		Jan 28, 2021
D-CA	Judy Chu		Jan 28, 2021
D-TX	Lizzie Fletcher		Jan 28, 2021
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Jan 28, 2021
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Jan 28, 2021
D-MN	Ilhan Omar		Feb 18, 2021
D-GU	Michael F. Q. San Nicolas		Feb 18, 2021
D-MA	Jake Auchincloss		Mar 8, 2021
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Mar 8, 2021
D-IN	André Carson		Mar 23, 2021
D-IL	Bradley Scott Schneider		Mar 29, 2021
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Mar 29, 2021
D-TX	Colin Z. Allred		Mar 29, 2021
D-MA	Ayanna Pressley		Apr 1, 2021
D-MD	Jamie Raskin		Apr 1, 2021
D-HI	Kaiali'i Kahele		Apr 1, 2021
D-CA	Sara Jacobs		Apr 15, 2021
R-CA	Young Kim		Apr 15, 2021
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		May 4, 2021
D-GA	Nikema Williams		Jun 28, 2021

Committees 2

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 Jan 21, 2021Markup Mar 25, 2021
Senate	Foreign Relations Committee	Referred Jul 12, 2021

Actions 12

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jul 12, 2021Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Jun 28, 2021Mr. Meeks moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Jun 28, 2021Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3165-3171)
Jun 28, 2021DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 391.
Jun 28, 2021At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.

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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 H3165–H3171Text printed H3165–H3169Recorded votes H3224enactLists H3225Votes recorded by proxy on H.R. 391, Global Health Security Act	Gerald E. Connolly D-VA, Gregory W. Meeks D-NY, Michael T. McCaul R-TX, Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX, Steve Chabot R-OH	Jun 28, 2021

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.

Congressional Budget Office cost estimate

May 11, 2021H.R. 391, Global Health Security Act of 2021As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on March 25, 2021

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 167, no. 12, January 21, 2021, page H224.

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
Serial No. 117-20	MARKUP OF H.R. 391, H.R. 1079, H.R. 1145, H.R. 1500, H.R. 1158, H.R. 1083, H.R. 1392, H.R. 1464, H.R. 256, H.R. 2118, H.Res. 245, H.R. 1934397 pages	Foreign Affairs Committee	Mar 25, 2021

CRS reports 2

Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.

Cite it 2

Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.

Product	Title	Kind	Published
R47073	Global Tuberculosis: Background and Issues for Congress Archived	Report	Apr 19, 2022
IF11822	Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic Archived	Resource	Jun 11, 2021

Titles 4

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To authorize a comprehensive, strategic approach for United States foreign assistance to developing countries to strengthen global health security, and for other purposes.
Short Title(s) as Introduced: Global Health Security Act of 2021
Short Title(s) as Passed House: Global Health Security Act of 2021
Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text: Global Health Security Act of 2021

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.

Text 3

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jul 12, 2021Referred in Senate
Jun 28, 2021Engrossed in House
Jan 21, 2021Introduced in House

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