U.S. Global Health Legislation Tracker

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International Well being Regulation Throughout the 118th Congress
(as of Oct. 24, 2023)
Name Date Offered Invoice # Sponsor Standing Subject Abstract of International Well being-Similar Provisions Abortion is Well being Care All over Act of 2023

To amend the Overseas Help Act of 1961 to authorize using price range for complete reproductive well being care products and services, and for different functions.

3/22/2023 H.R. 1723 Rep. Janice Schakowsky (D-IL-9) Referred to HFAC Abortion, Helms modification Contains remark of U.S. coverage referring to protected abortion and dealing to finish unsafe abortion; repeals the Helms Modification (which prohibits using overseas help to pay for the efficiency of abortion as a technique of circle of relatives making plans or to encourage or coerce anyone to apply abortion); states that however another provision of legislation, sure price range could also be used to offer complete reproductive well being care products and services, together with abortion products and services, coaching, and gear. Abortion is Well being Care All over Act of 2023

To amend the Overseas Help Act of 1961 to authorize using Federal overseas help price range for complete reproductive well being care products and services, and for different functions.

3/22/2023 S. 929 Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) Learn two times and referred to SFRC Abortion, Helms modification Contains remark of U.S. coverage referring to protected abortion and dealing to finish unsafe abortion; repeals the Helms Modification (which prohibits using overseas help to pay for the efficiency of abortion as a technique of circle of relatives making plans or to encourage or coerce anyone to apply abortion); states that however another provision of legislation, sure price range could also be used to offer complete reproductive well being care products and services, together with abortion products and services, coaching, and gear. Accelerating Biomedical Innovation Act

To ascertain a Heart for Biomedical Innovation and Building with the intention to boost up innovation and building of complex clinical countermeasure merchandise.

5/4/2023 S. 1441 Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) Learn two times and referred to S. HELP International well being safety, clinical countermeasures Calls for the Director of BARDA (the Biomedical Complex Analysis and Building Company), with the HHS Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and the Heart for Biomedical Innovation and Building (established by way of the Act) to coordinate with global companions to reinforce international well being safety by way of encouraging different an identical tasks underneath which global complex building networks enhance an expanded international technique for vaccine, drug, tool, and different countermeasure analysis, building, and production. American Values Act

To completely enact sure appropriations Act restrictions on using price range for abortions and involuntary sterilizations, and for different functions.

1/31/2023 S. 197 Sen. James Risch (R-ID) Learn two times and referred to SFRC Abortion, involuntary sterilization modification, Siljander modification, Kemp-Kasten modification, Peace Corps provision, Helms modification, Biden modification Amends the Overseas Help Act of 1961 to codify in everlasting legislation the Siljander modification, which prohibits  using price range to foyer for or in opposition to abortion, and the Kemp-Kasten modification, which prohibits investment any group or program, as made up our minds by way of the President, that helps or participates within the control of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization; restates the Helms modification, the Involuntary Sterilization modification (which prohibits using price range to pay for involuntary sterilizations as a technique of circle of relatives making plans or to coerce or supply a monetary incentive to someone to go through sterilization), and the Biden modification (which states that price range is probably not used for biomedical analysis associated with strategies of or the efficiency of abortion or involuntary sterilization as a way of circle of relatives making plans) which are already in everlasting legislation. Additionally amends the Peace Corps Act to codify in everlasting legislation the Peace Corps provision, which prohibits Peace Corps investment from paying for an abortion for a Peace Corps volunteer or trainee, aside from in instances the place the lifetime of the lady is endangered by way of being pregnant or in instances of rape or incest. Previously those were incorporated handiest in annual State-Overseas Operations appropriations language. See additionally the KFF fact sheet on FP/RH statutory necessities and insurance policies and the KFF explainer on UNFPA investment and Kemp-Kasten.

AUDIT Act
(Assessing Accidental Drivers of Unlawful Trafficking Act)

To require sure bureaus of the Division of State and the USA Company for World Building to free up quarterly opinions of sure grants, and for different functions.

3/24/2023 H.R. 1775 Rep. Richard McCormick (R-GA-6) Referred to HFAC Abortion, Central and South The usa, asylum seekers Calls for the Division of State’s Bureau of Inhabitants, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) and Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Hard work (DRL) and USAID to be prohibited from giving grants underneath their migrant and asylum-seeker (and for USAID, internally displaced individuals) techniques in Central and South The usa to imposing companions that supply abortion products and services to asylum seekers, together with companions offering sexual and reproductive well being products and services that come with referrals to receiving abortions, offering help in acquiring abortions, offering abortion; and which without delay or not directly fund abortions or products and services for abortions in any method for asylum seekers. BLUE Pacific Act

To ascertain a complete, long-term United States technique and coverage for the Pacific Islands, and for different functions.

7/11/2023 H.R. 4538 Rep. Ed Case (D-HI-1) Referred to HFAC, H. Techniques and Method, H. Herbal Assets Public well being capability development, gender-based violence Authorizes the Secretary of States to help the Pacific Islands to strengthen public well being results and construct public well being capability, together with programming to deal with maternal and kid well being, circle of relatives making plans and reproductive well being, gender-based violence, meals safety and diet, NCDs, NTDs, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, STDs, and zoonotic and rising infectious illness threats, blank water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), well being device strengthening, and different actions; calls for a document no longer later than 180 days after enactment with technique; authorizes to be appropriated $250 million for FY23-FY33 to hold out the Act and amendments made by way of the Act; calls for a document from, amongst others, the Secretary of State and USAID Administrator at the growth in imposing the Technique for the Pacific Islands Partnership (additionally required by way of the Act) together with an outline of public well being and well being care demanding situations within the Pacific Islands, together with well being methods strengthening, immunization, NCDs, and gender-based violence. Blank Cooking Enhance Act

To assist build up the advance, distribution, and use of unpolluted cookstoves and fuels to strengthen well being, offer protection to the local weather and atmosphere, empower girls, create jobs, and assist customers save money and time.

6/22/2023 S. 2179 Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) Learn two times and referred to SFRC Cookstoves, blank indoor air Calls for the Secretary of State and the USAID Administrator to determine the Blank Cooking Interagency Operating Staff; outlines its makeup, obligations, and governance; calls for more than a few U.S. executive businesses corresponding to USAID, CDC, NIH, and the Division of State to paintings with the Blank Cooking Alliance to advance connected actions and behavior different efforts inside of their company purviews to advance blank cooking as a way to strengthen well being, amongst different issues; authorizes to be appropriated such sums as could also be essential to hold out this Act for every of the fiscal years 2024-2028. Finish Tuberculosis Now Act of 2023

To forestall, deal with, and treatment tuberculosis globally.

 

2/7/2023 S. 288 Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) Learn two times and referred to SFRC Tuberculosis States that this is a main function of the overseas help program of the USA to assist finish the tuberculosis (TB) public well being emergency thru speeded up movements to enhance the analysis and remedy of all adults and youngsters with all varieties of TB, and to stop new TB infections; outlines goals and objectives of U.S. coverage associated with TB, together with to make sure that United States investment helps actions that concurrently emphasize the advance of complete person-centered techniques, together with analysis, remedy, and prevention methods, and the deployment of diagnostic and remedy capability in spaces with the best TB burdens and for extremely at-risk and impoverished populations, together with affected person enhance, amongst different issues; authorizes the President to furnish help for the prevention, remedy, regulate, and removing of TB; directs the President to determine objectives for U.S. TB techniques to locate, treatment and save you all varieties of TB globally for the length between 2023 and 2030 this is aligned with the Finish TB Technique’s 2030 objectives and USAID’s International TB Technique (2023–2030) and replace the Nationwide Motion Plan for Fighting Multidrug-Resistant TB; calls for the President to coordinate with WHO, the Prevent TB Partnership, the International Fund to Battle AIDS, TB, and Malaria, and different organizations with admire to the advance and implementation of a complete international TB reaction program; calls for the President, performing during the USAID Administrator, to catalyze enhance for analysis and building (R&D) of recent gear to stop, diagnose, deal with, and regulate TB international, specifically to cut back the prevalence of, and mortality from, all varieties of drug-resistant TB; identifies priorities for furnishing U.S. help, together with treating people co-infected with HIV and different co-morbidities, and different people with TB who could also be prone to stigma and strengthening the capability of well being methods to locate, save you, and deal with TB, together with MDR–TB and XDR–TB, in addition to enhance for the Prevent TB Partnership’s International Drug Facility, and the International Alliance for TB Drug Building, and different organizations selling the advance of recent merchandise and medicine for TB, amongst different issues; authorizes the President, by the use of the USAID Administrator, to offer assets to WHO and the Prevent TB Partnership to strengthen the capability of nations with prime burdens or charges of TB and different affected nations to enforce the Finish TB Technique, the Prevent TB International Plan to Finish TB, their very own nationwide methods and plans, different international efforts to regulate MDR–TB and XDR–TB; calls for an annual report back to the precise congressional committees on U.S. TB actions and their affect, with for the primary 3 years of the document a required phase that describes the growth in recuperating from the adverse affect of COVID–19 on TB; calls for the President, performing during the USAID Administrator in coordination with others, to put up an annual report back to Congress on TB R&D; calls for an analysis document by way of the Comptroller Common no longer later than 3 years after enactment and each 5 years thereafter that evaluates the efficiency and affect on TB prevention, analysis, remedy, and care efforts which are supported by way of United States bilateral help investment, together with suggestions for making improvements to such techniques. Finish Tuberculosis Now Act of 2023

To forestall, deal with, and treatment tuberculosis globally.

 

3/24/2023 H.R. 1776 Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA-7) Ordered to be reported by way of voice vote Tuberculosis States that this is a main function of the overseas help program of the USA to assist finish the tuberculosis (TB) public well being emergency thru speeded up movements to enhance the analysis and remedy of all adults and youngsters with all varieties of TB, and to stop new TB infections; outlines goals and objectives of U.S. coverage associated with TB, together with to make sure that United States investment helps actions that concurrently emphasize the advance of complete person-centered techniques, together with analysis, remedy, and prevention methods, and the deployment of diagnostic and remedy capability in spaces with the best TB burdens and for extremely at-risk and impoverished populations, together with affected person enhance, amongst different issues; authorizes the President to furnish help for the prevention, remedy, regulate, and removing of TB; directs the President to determine objectives for U.S. TB techniques to locate, treatment and save you all varieties of TB globally for the length between 2023 and 2030 this is aligned with the Finish TB Technique’s 2030 objectives and USAID’s International TB Technique (2023–2030) and replace the Nationwide Motion Plan for Fighting Multidrug-Resistant TB; calls for the President to coordinate with WHO, the Prevent TB Partnership, the International Fund to Battle AIDS, TB, and Malaria, and different organizations with admire to the advance and implementation of a complete international TB reaction program; calls for the President, performing during the USAID Administrator, to catalyze enhance for analysis and building (R&D) of recent gear to stop, diagnose, deal with, and regulate TB international, specifically to cut back the prevalence of, and mortality from, all varieties of drug-resistant TB; identifies priorities for furnishing U.S. help, together with treating people co-infected with HIV and different co-morbidities, and different people with TB who could also be prone to stigma and strengthening the capability of well being methods to locate, save you, and deal with TB, together with MDR–TB and XDR–TB, in addition to enhance for the Prevent TB Partnership’s International Drug Facility, and the International Alliance for TB Drug Building, and different organizations selling the advance of recent merchandise and medicine for TB, amongst different issues; authorizes the President, by the use of the USAID Administrator, to offer assets to WHO and the Prevent TB Partnership to strengthen the capability of nations with prime burdens or charges of TB and different affected nations to enforce the Finish TB Technique, the Prevent TB International Plan to Finish TB, their very own nationwide methods and plans, different international efforts to regulate MDR–TB and XDR–TB; calls for an annual report back to the precise congressional committees on U.S. TB actions and their affect, with for the primary 3 years of the document a required phase that describes the growth in recuperating from the adverse affect of COVID–19 on TB; calls for the President, performing during the USAID Administrator in coordination with others, to put up an annual report back to Congress on TB R&D; calls for an analysis document by way of the Comptroller Common no longer later than 3 years after enactment and each 5 years thereafter that evaluates the efficiency and affect on TB prevention, analysis, remedy, and care efforts which are supported by way of United States bilateral help investment, together with suggestions for making improvements to such techniques.

International Well being, Empowerment and Rights Act
(International HER Act)

To ban the appliance of sure restrictive eligibility necessities to overseas nongovernmental organizations with admire to the availability of help underneath phase I of the Overseas Help Act of 1961.

3/28/2023 H.R. 1838 Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA-13) Referred to HFAC Abortion, Mexico Town coverage Codifies prohibition of the expanded Mexico Town coverage (rescinded by way of President Biden in Jan. 2021, see KFF explainer): states that however any provision of legislation, law, or coverage, overseas non-governmental organizations (NGOs) shall no longer be ineligible for sure overseas support underneath the Overseas Help Act only at the foundation of well being or clinical products and services supplied with non-U.S. price range (insofar as prison in nation the place supplied and underneath U.S. legislation) and shall no longer be topic to necessities on the subject of their use of non-U.S. price range for advocacy and lobbying actions.*

International Well being, Empowerment and Rights Act
(International HER Act)

To ban the appliance of sure restrictive eligibility necessities to overseas nongovernmental organizations with admire to the availability of help underneath phase I of the Overseas Help Act of 1961.

3/30/2023 S. 1098 Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) Learn two times and referred to SFRC Abortion, Mexico Town coverage Codifies prohibition of the expanded Mexico Town coverage (rescinded by way of President Biden in Jan. 2021, see KFF explainer): states that however any provision of legislation, law, or coverage, overseas non-governmental organizations (NGOs) shall no longer be ineligible for sure overseas support underneath the Overseas Help Act only at the foundation of well being or clinical products and services supplied with non-U.S. price range (insofar as prison in nation the place supplied and underneath U.S. legislation) and shall no longer be topic to necessities on the subject of their use of non-U.S. price range for advocacy and lobbying actions.* International WASH in Healthcare Amenities Act of 2023 

To authorize an Motion Plan for United States overseas help to creating nations to extend get entry to to sustainable protected water, sanitation, and hygiene in healthcare amenities, advertise more potent well being methods and sustainable well being infrastructure, construct capability of well being employees, and advertise the security of well being employees and sufferers, particularly girls and women, and for different functions.

9/18/2023 H.R. 5545 Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY-6) Referred to HFAC WASH, menstrual well being and hygiene, well being employees Contains remark of coverage that it “is within the nationwide safety hobby of the USA to extend get entry to to sustainable and protected water, sanitation, and hygiene” (WASH) in healthcare amenities thru international well being, maternal, new child, and kid well being (MNCH), and international water techniques; calls for the USAID Administrator, CDC Director, and Secretary of State to expand and enforce an motion plan – the International WASH in Healthcare Amenities Motion Plan – to, amongst different issues, describe measures and approaches to deal with the problems of an infection prevention and regulate, menstrual well being and hygiene, protected and equitable get entry to to WASH for well being employees, and gaps in present information, tracking and analysis research and capability; expresses Sense of Congress referring to U.S. executive coordination in imposing the Plan.

Larger Management In a foreign country for the Good thing about Equality Act of 2023
(GLOBE Act of 2023)

To give protection to human rights and reinforce alternatives for LGBTQI other folks all over the world, and for different functions. 

6/12/2023 H.R. 4050 Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV-1) Referred to HFAC, H. Judiciary LGBTQI well being, HIV, Mexico Town coverage Calls for equivalent get entry to of all parts of the inhabitants to techniques funded by way of U.S. help, together with international well being techniques.

Additionally calls for PEPFAR to: be carried out in some way that equitably serves LGBTQI other folks, put up a report back to Congress describing global prosecutions for intercourse paintings or consensual sexual task in response to commodities supplied by way of PEPFAR or different U.S. enhance, and put up a report back to Congress on HIV/AIDS-related index trying out; calls for GAO to put up a report back to Congress that describes the affect of the implementation and enforcement of any iteration of the Mexico Town Coverage at the international LGBTQI neighborhood; expresses Sense of Congress in regards to the U.S. attractive global organizations in efforts to do away with LGBTQI discrimination; and repeals the Mexico Town coverage by way of getting rid of sure obstacles on eligibility for overseas help.

Larger Management In a foreign country for the Good thing about Equality Act of 2023
(GLOBE Act of 2023)

To give protection to human rights and reinforce alternatives for LGBTQI other folks all over the world, and for different functions. 

6/12/2023 S. 1924 Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) Learn two times and referred to SFRC LGBTQI well being, HIV, Mexico Town coverage Calls for equivalent get entry to of all parts of the inhabitants to techniques funded by way of U.S. help, together with international well being techniques.

Additionally calls for PEPFAR to: be carried out in some way that equitably serves LGBTQI other folks, put up a report back to Congress describing global prosecutions for intercourse paintings or consensual sexual task in response to commodities supplied by way of PEPFAR or different U.S. enhance, and put up a report back to Congress on HIV/AIDS-related index trying out; calls for GAO to put up a report back to Congress that describes the affect of the implementation and enforcement of any iteration of the Mexico Town Coverage at the international LGBTQI neighborhood; and expresses Sense of Congress in regards to the U.S. attractive global organizations in efforts to do away with LGBTQI discrimination.

World Youngsters with Disabilities Coverage Act of 2023

To ascertain the World Youngsters with Disabilities Coverage Program inside the Division of State, and for different functions.

3/16/2023 S. 847 Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) Put on Senate Legislative Calendar underneath Common Orders Youngsters with disabilities Expresses the Sense of Congress that techniques on the Division of State and USAID associated with youngsters, international well being, and schooling will have to have interaction organizations of individuals with disabilities in policymaking and program implementation and enhance complete inclusion of kids with disabilities in households, and will have to goal to steer clear of enhance for residential establishments for youngsters with disabilities aside from in eventualities of battle or emergency in a fashion that protects circle of relatives connections. World Human Rights Protection Act of 2023

To ascertain within the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Hard work of the Division of State a Particular Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Peoples, and for different functions.

3/28/2023 H.R. 1833 Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA-42) Referred to HFAC LGBTQI+ well being, HIV Contains remark of U.S. coverage referring to LGBTQI+ problems globally, together with using a multisectoral way to combating and responding to criminalization, discrimination, and violence in opposition to LGBTQI+ other folks the world over, together with actions within the well being sector; authorizes the availability of U.S. help to stop and reply to those problems the world over, together with enhancement of well being sector capability associated with violence in opposition to LGBTQI+ other folks and communities and to fight HIV. World Human Rights Protection Act of 2023

To ascertain within the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Hard work of the Division of State a Particular Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Peoples, and for different functions.

3/28/2023 S. 1007 Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) Learn two times and referred to SFRC LGBTI well being, HIV Contains remark of U.S. coverage referring to LGBTQI+ problems globally, together with using a multisectoral way to combating and responding to criminalization, discrimination, and violence in opposition to LGBTQI+ other folks the world over, together with actions within the well being sector; authorizes the availability of U.S. help to stop and reply to those problems the world over, together with enhancement of well being sector capability associated with violence in opposition to LGBTQI+ other folks and communities and to fight HIV. Scientific Provide Chain Resiliency Act

To authorize the President to go into into industry agreements for the reciprocal removing of tasks or different import restrictions with admire to clinical items to give a contribution to the nationwide safety and public well being of the USA, and for different functions.

6/22/2023 H.R. 4307 Rep. Michelle Metal (R-CA-45)

 

Referred to H. Techniques and Method, H. Laws International well being safety Calls for the President, in figuring out whether or not to go into into negotiations for a depended on industry spouse settlement with a rustic, to take into accout whether or not the federal government of the rustic has (amongst different issues) demonstrated a dedication to give a contribution to international well being safety, together with the nationwide safety of the USA and the well being of United States voters, by way of keeping up open industry in clinical items all through a public well being emergency, together with to permit analysis, building, and production of the ones items. Scientific Provide Chain Resiliency Act

To authorize the President to go into into industry agreements for the reciprocal removing of tasks or different import restrictions with admire to clinical items to give a contribution to the nationwide safety and public well being of the USA, and for different functions.

 

6/22/2023 S. 2115 Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE)

 

Learn two times and referred to S. Finance International well being safety Calls for the President, in figuring out whether or not to go into into negotiations for a depended on industry spouse settlement with a rustic, to take into accout whether or not the federal government of the rustic has (amongst different issues) demonstrated a dedication to give a contribution to international well being safety, together with the nationwide safety of the USA and the well being of United States voters, by way of keeping up open industry in clinical items all through a public well being emergency, together with to permit analysis, building, and production of the ones items.

Psychological Well being in World Building and Humanitarian Settings Act
(MINDS Act)

To reinforce psychological well being and psychosocial enhance inside of United States building and humanitarian help techniques.

3/9/2023 S. 767 Sen. Robert Casey (D-PA)

 

Learn two times and referred to SFRC Psychological well being, youngsters in adversity, COVID-19 Expresses Sense of Congress that psychological well being is integral and very important to general well being results and different building goals; codifies the placement of USAID coordinator for psychological well being and psychosocial enhance and describes the placement’s tasks, together with setting up a Psychological Well being and Psychosocial Enhance Operating Staff; describes the Staff’s tasks and individuals; states U.S. coverage is to combine psychological well being and psychosocial enhance throughout all related U.S. building and humanitarian help techniques; calls for USAID and the Division of State regional bureaus and missions to advance such coverage for native capability development, and that such programming be evidence-based and culturally competent and reply to all kinds of adolescence adversity; calls for USAID to discuss with and report back to Congress on growth and boundaries to implementation, the affect of the COVID-19 pandemic on programming, and investment obligated and expended in this programming all through essentially the most just lately concluded fiscal yr.

Psychological Well being in World Building and Humanitarian Settings Act
(MINDS Act)

To reinforce psychological well being and psychosocial enhance inside of United States building and humanitarian help techniques.

3/10/2023 H.R. 1570 Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA-7) Referred to HFAC Psychological well being, youngsters in adversity, COVID-19 Expresses Sense of Congress that psychological well being is integral and very important to general well being results and different building goals; codifies the placement of USAID coordinator for psychological well being and psychosocial enhance and describes the placement’s tasks, together with setting up a Psychological Well being and Psychosocial Enhance Operating Staff; describes the Staff’s tasks and individuals; states U.S. coverage is to combine psychological well being and psychosocial enhance throughout all related U.S. building and humanitarian help techniques; calls for USAID and the Division of State regional bureaus and missions to advance such coverage for native capability development, and that such programming be evidence-based and culturally competent and reply to all kinds of adolescence adversity; calls for USAID to discuss with and report back to Congress on growth and boundaries to implementation, the affect of the COVID-19 pandemic on programming, and investment obligated and expended in this programming all through essentially the most just lately concluded fiscal yr. No Taxpayer Investment for the International Well being Group Act

To ban United States assessed and voluntary contributions to the International Well being Group.

1/12/2023 H.R. 343 Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX-21) Referred to HFAC WHO States that however another provision of legislation, the U.S. won’t supply any assessed or voluntary contributions to WHO (see additionally the KFF fact sheet on WHO). No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty With out Senate Approval Act

To require any conference, settlement, or different global tool on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and reaction reached by way of the International Well being Meeting to be topic to Senate ratification.

2/15/2023 S. 444 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) Learn two times and referred to SFRC Pandemic preparedness and reaction, WHO Expresses the Sense of the Senate that the Senate strongly prefers that any settlement associated with pandemic prevention, preparedness, and reaction followed by way of the International Well being Meeting be regarded as a treaty requiring the recommendation and consent of the Senate, with two-thirds of Senators concurring, and that given the extent of public mistrust of WHO by way of a “vital phase of the American public” any related new settlement by way of the International Well being Meeting that can not garner such Senate concurrence will have to no longer be agreed to or carried out by way of the USA; then reiterates that this kind of settlement is deemed to be a treaty topic to the recommendation and consent necessities of the Charter. No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty With out Senate Approval Act

To require any conference, settlement, or different global tool on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and reaction reached by way of the International Well being Meeting to be topic to Senate ratification.

3/7/2023 H.R. 1425 Rep. Thomas Tiffany (R-WI-7) Referred to HFAC Pandemic preparedness and reaction, WHO Expresses the Sense of the Senate that the Senate strongly prefers that any pandemic prevention, preparedness, and reaction settlement followed by way of the International Well being Meeting be regarded as a treaty requiring the recommendation and consent of the Senate, with two-thirds of Senators concurring, and that given the extent of public mistrust of WHO by way of a “vital phase of the American public” any related new settlement by way of the International Well being Meeting that doesn’t garner such Senate concurrence will have to no longer be agreed to or carried out by way of the USA; then reiterates that this kind of settlement is deemed to be a treaty topic to the recommendation and consent necessities of the Charter.

PASTEUR Act of 2023
(Pioneering Antimicrobial Subscriptions To Finish Upsurging Resistance Act of 2023)

To amend name III of the Public Well being Provider Act to determine a program to expand antimicrobial inventions focused on essentially the most difficult pathogens and most dangerous infections, and for different functions.

4/27/2023 H.R. 2940 Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-GA-3) Referred to H. Power & Trade, H. Oversight & Responsibility, H. Techniques and Method, H. Price range International well being safety, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Directs the brand new Committee on Important Want Antimicrobials, with others, to expand a listing of infections for which new antimicrobial drug building is wanted, bearing in mind more than a few issues, together with an expected unmet clinical want, together with a possible international well being safety danger.

PASTEUR Act of 2023
(Pioneering Antimicrobial Subscriptions To Finish Upsurging Resistance Act of 2023)

To amend name III of the Public Well being Provider Act to determine a program to expand antimicrobial inventions focused on essentially the most difficult pathogens and most dangerous infections, and for different functions.

4/27/2023 S. 1355 Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) Learn two times and referred to S. HELLP International well being safety, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Directs the brand new Committee on Important Want Antimicrobials, with others, to expand a listing of infections for which new antimicrobial drug building is wanted, bearing in mind more than a few issues, together with an expected unmet clinical want, together with a possible international well being safety danger. Protective American Sovereignty Act 

To ban using price range to enforce any duties of the USA underneath the International Well being Group’s International Pandemic Treaty.

3/10/2023 H.R. 1546 Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX-13) Referred to HFAC International well being safety, WHO Prohibits Federal price range from getting used to enforce any U.S. duties underneath the WHO International Pandemic Treaty (outlined because the 0 draft document by way of the Operating Staff on Strengthening WHO Preparedness and Reaction to Well being Emergencies, and any connected or successor experiences and suggestions referring to pandemics as created by way of WHO). Protective Existence in Overseas Help Act

To limit the supply of Federal price range to organizations related to the abortion trade. 4/6/2023 H.R. 2492 Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC-5) Referred to HFAC Abortion, Mexico Town coverage Codifies the expanded Mexico Town coverage (rescinded by way of President Biden in Jan. 2021; see KFF explainer) and expands it to use extra widely to federal investment made to be had for functions outdoor of the U.S. to one) any overseas nonprofit group, overseas nongovernmental group, overseas multilateral group, or overseas quasi-autonomous nongovernmental group that carries out sure actions, and a pair of) any home nonprofit group or home nongovernmental group that carries out sure actions. Achieve Each Mom and Kid Act of 2023

To amend the Overseas Help Act of 1961 to enforce insurance policies to finish preventable maternal, new child, and kid deaths globally.

5/10/2023 S. 1547 Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) Learn two times and referred to SFRC Maternal well being, kid well being Contains remark of  U.S. coverage to determine and enforce a coordinated, built-in, and complete method to finish preventable kid and maternal deaths and make sure wholesome and productive lives; calls for the established order and implementation of a five-year complete method to give a contribution towards the worldwide objective of finishing preventable kid and maternal deaths by way of 2030; states the President shall designate a Kid and Maternal Survival Coordinator and describes their tasks; calls for an annual document on growth. Strengthening Efforts to Finish Violence In opposition to Youngsters Act of 2023

To amend the Overseas Help Act of 1961 to replace and fortify present efforts to finish violence in opposition to youngsters, strengthen coordination amongst businesses addressing this violence, and advertise using evidence-based methods and demanding knowledge accumulating features, and for different functions.

7/20/2023 H.R. 4798 Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA-2) Referred to HFAC Youngsters in adversity, orphans and prone youngsters (OVC), COVID-19 Calls for the Particular Consultant for Help to OVC to discuss with related workplaces, together with PEPFAR, in creating a method for coordinating, imposing, and tracking help techniques for youngsters in adversity; calls for the Particular Consultant to put up a document at the affect of the COVID-19 pandemic on violence in opposition to youngsters globally and kid coverage dangers, together with kid marriage and feminine genital mutilation/chopping SUPER BUGS Act of 2023

To direct the Secretary of Well being and Human Products and services, in session with the Secretary of State, to formulate a method for the Federal Govt to protected enhance from overseas nations, multilateral organizations, and different suitable entities to facilitate the advance and commercialization of certified pandemic or epidemic merchandise, and for different functions.

3/1/2023 H.R. 1305 Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA-49) Referred to HFAC Analysis and building, pandemic, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Calls for the HHS Secretary, in session with the Secretary of State, to expand a method to protected enhance from overseas nations, multilateral organizations, and different suitable entities to facilitate the advance and commercialization of certified pandemic or epidemic merchandise, together with such merchandise to deal with antimicrobial resistant pathogens with pandemic doable or which are precedence pathogens; calls for the HHS Secretary, in session with the Secretary of State, to hunt to go into into preparations with those entities to enforce the method. Enhance UNFPA Investment Act

To authorize contributions to the United Countries Inhabitants Fund, and for different functions.

6/15/2023 H.R. 4166 Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-6) Referred to HFAC UNFPA, circle of relatives making plans/
reproductive well being (FP/RH) Contains remark of U.S. coverage referring to monetary enhance for UNFPA as a an important a part of the U.S. international well being dedication; authorizes to be appropriated for every of the 5 next years after enactment, an annual contribution to UNFPA to enhance core purposes and techniques. Strengthening the Quad Act

To require a method for bolstering engagement and cooperation between the USA, Australia, India, and Japan and to hunt to determine a Quad Intra-Parliamentary Operating Staff to facilitate nearer cooperation on shared pursuits and values. 9/8/2023 H.R. 5375 Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY-5) Referred to HFAC International well being safety, COVID-19, Australia, India, Japan Calls for a method for bolstering engagement and cooperation with the Quad (the U.S., Australia, India, Japan), which is able to come with a abstract of present and previous Quad tasks throughout the entire of the USA executive, together with international well being safety, and an outline of efforts, since January 2021, to collectively enlarge ongoing COVID–19 cooperation to arrange for the following pandemic by way of that specialize in medium-term vaccine and clinical provide manufacturing and development a broader discussion on international public well being. To ban the supply of Federal price range to the International Well being Group pending the behavior of an investigation on the subject of the affect over such group by way of Chinese language Communist Birthday celebration, and for different functions. 5/25/2023 H.R. 3664 Rep. George Santos (R-NY-3) Referred to HFAC WHO, China States that however another provision of legislation, no Federal price range could also be made to be had, without delay or not directly, to WHO till the President conducts an investigation to evaluate and decide the extent of affect by way of the Chinese language Communist Birthday celebration over the operations of WHO ((together with with admire to persuade in regards to the starting place of COVID–19 and any coverup on the subject of such starting place) and submits a document containing the findings of such investigation. To ban using price range to hunt club within the International Well being Group or to offer assessed or voluntary contributions to the International Well being Group. 5/9/2023 H.R. 3131 Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX-19) Referred to HFAC WHO, China, Taiwan, Iran, North Korea, Syria, gender id, gender asserting care, local weather alternate, abortion, sovereignty Prohibits using federal price range to hunt club by way of the U.S. in WHO or to offer assessed or voluntary U.S. contributions to WHO till such time because the Secretary of State certifies that WHO meets sure stipulations, together with: WHO has followed significant reforms to make sure that humanitarian help isn’t politicized and is to be supplied to these with essentially the most want, WHO isn’t underneath the regulate or vital malign affect of the Chinese language Communist celebration, WHO isn’t inquisitive about a coverup of the Chinese language Communist Birthday celebration’s reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO grants observer standing to Taiwan, WHO does no longer divert humanitarian or clinical provides to Iran, North Korea, or Syria; WHO has installed position mechanisms to extend transparency and duty in its operations and do away with waste, fraud, and abuse; WHO has ceased all investment for, engagement in, and messaging with admire to sure problems, together with gender id, gender asserting care, local weather alternate, and abortion; and WHO has agreed that as a situation of U.S. club in WHO, no directive issued by way of WHO could also be regarded as to be legally binding on any U.S. citizen or person state. To supply for a limitation on availability of price range for Bilaterial [sic] Financial Help, International Well being Systems for fiscal yr 2024. 3/29/2023 H.R. 2334 Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ-5) Referred to HFAC Appropriations, investment States that however another provision of the legislation, quantities approved to be appropriated or differently to be had for Bilaterial [sic] Financial Help, International Well being Systems for fiscal yr 2024 won’t exceed $3,117,450,000. To supply for a limitation on availability of price range for Bilaterial [sic] Financial Help, International Well being Systems, HIV/AIDS for fiscal yr 2024. 3/29/2023 H.R. 2335 Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ-5) Referred to HFAC Appropriations, investment States that however another provision of the legislation, quantities approved to be appropriated or differently to be had for Bilaterial [sic] Financial Help, International Well being Systems, HIV/AIDS for fiscal yr 2024 won’t exceed $5,720,000,000. To supply for a limitation on availability of price range for Division of Well being and Human Products and services, Facilities for Illness Keep an eye on and Prevention International Well being for fiscal yr 2024. 3/29/2023 H.R. 1971 Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ-5) Referred to H. Power & Trade Appropriations, investment States that however another provision of the legislation, quantities approved to be appropriated or differently to be had for HHS/CDC International Well being for fiscal yr 2024 won’t exceed $488,621,000. To supply for a limitation on availability of price range for Division of Well being and Human Products and services, Facilities for Illness Keep an eye on and Prevention HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Sicknesses, and Tuberculosis Prevention for fiscal yr 2024. 3/29/2023 H.R. 1962 Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ-5) Referred to H. Power & Trade Appropriations, investment States that however another provision of the legislation, quantities approved to be appropriated or differently to be had HHS/CDC HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Sicknesses, and Tuberculosis Prevention for fiscal yr 2024 won’t exceed $1,132,278,000. To supply for a limitation on availability of price range for Division of Well being and Human Products and services, Nationwide Institutes of Well being John E. Fogarty World Heart for fiscal yr 2024. 3/29/2023 H.R. 1996 Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ-5) Referred to H. Power & Trade Appropriations, investment States that however another provision of the legislation, quantities approved to be appropriated or differently to be had for HHS/NIH John E. Fogarty World Heart for fiscal yr 2024 won’t exceed $78,109,000. To require the Administrator of the USA Company for World Building to put up a document on growth on the subject of malaria relief, and for different functions. 4/25/2023 H.R. 2854 Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ-4) Referred to HFAC Malaria Expresses Sense of Congress for enhance for malaria efforts by way of the U.S. and others; calls for the USAID Administrator to put up a report back to Congress at the cumulative growth towards 90 % malaria relief by way of 2030, together with by way of offering prevalence and mortality charges of malaria. United States-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act of 2023

To amend the United States-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act of 2016 to require the submission of an up to date multi-year technique for United States engagement to enhance the efforts of international locations within the Caribbean area.

6/12/2023 H.R. 4015 Castro, Joaquin [Rep.-D-TX-20] Referred to HFAC Caribbean, international well being safety Amends remark of U.S. coverage to incorporate making improvements to public well being cooperation and infrastructure to mitigate well being considerations and threats to the Caribbean area, together with actions to arrange for long term pandemic and well being emergencies, increasing the accessibility of well being products and services to marginalized populations, and lowering dependence on clinical imports from malign actors. United States-Israel World Building Cooperation Act of 2023

To amend the Overseas Help Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for sure cooperative tasks some of the United States, Israel, and creating nations, and for different functions.

6/7/2023 H.R. 3907 Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL-22) Referred to HFAC Israel Expresses Sense of Congress that the U.S. will have to proceed to spouse with Israel to advance commonplace objectives referring to international well being, water, and sanitation, amongst different issues. United States-Israel World Building Cooperation Act of 2023

To amend the Overseas Help Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for sure cooperative tasks some of the United States, Israel, and creating nations, and for different functions.

7/11/2023 S. 2240 Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) Learn two times and referred to SFRC Israel Expresses Sense of Congress that the U.S. will have to proceed to spouse with Israel to advance commonplace objectives referring to international well being, water, and sanitation, amongst different issues. Western Hemisphere Partnership Act of 2023

To ascertain a partnership with international locations within the Western Hemisphere to advertise financial competitiveness, democratic governance, and safety, and for different functions.

4/26/2023 S. 1325 Sen. James Risch (R-ID) Put on Senate Legislative Calendar underneath Common Orders International well being safety States the Secretary of State, in coordination with the heads of different related Federal businesses, will have to enhance the advance of safety stipulations and the guideline of legislation within the Western Hemisphere thru collaborative efforts with democratic companions that, amongst different issues, foster regional mechanisms for early caution and reaction to pandemics within the Western Hemisphere, together with thru stepped forward cooperation with and analysis by way of CDC thru regional pandemic reaction facilities and surveying and mapping of well being networks to construct native well being capability. WHO Withdrawal Act

To direct the President to withdraw the USA from the Charter of the International Well being Group, and for different functions.

1/9/2023 H.R. 79 Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ-5) Referred to HFAC WHO Calls for the President to withdraw the U.S. from WHO club; prohibits Federal price range from being supplied for the participation of the U.S. in WHO; repeals an previous Act that supplied for club and participation by way of the U.S. in WHO and “authorizing an appropriation therefor. APPROPRIATIONS BILLS

Division of State, Overseas Operations, and Similar Systems Appropriations Act, 2024
(State/Overseas Ops – SFOPS Approps)

Making appropriations for the Division of State, overseas operations, and connected techniques for the fiscal yr finishing September 30, 2024, and for different functions.

7/17/2023 H.R. 4665 Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL-26) Handed Space, won within the Senate; learn two times and put on Senate Legislative Calendar underneath Common Orders Appropriations See KFF summary.

Division of State, Overseas Operations, and Similar Systems Appropriations Act, 2024
(State/Overseas Ops – SFOPS Approps)

Making appropriations for the Division of State, overseas operations, and connected techniques for the fiscal yr finishing September 30, 2024, and for different functions.

7/20/2023 S. 2438 Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) Put on Senate Legislative Calendar underneath Common Orders Appropriations See KFF summary.

Departments of Hard work, Well being and Human Products and services, and Schooling, and Similar Businesses Appropriations Act, 2024
(LHHS Approps)

Making appropriations for the Departments of Hard work, Well being and Human Products and services, and Schooling, and connected businesses for the fiscal yr finishing September 30, 2024, and for different functions.

7/27/2023 S. 2624 Sen. Tammy 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (D-WI) Put on Senate Legislative Calendar underneath Common Orders Appropriations See KFF summary.

Departments of Hard work, Well being and Human Products and services, and Schooling, and Similar Businesses Appropriations Act, 2024
(LHHS Approps)

Making appropriations for the Departments of Hard work, Well being and Human Products and services, and Schooling, and connected businesses for the fiscal yr finishing September 30, 2024, and for different functions.

10/6/2023 H.R. 5894 Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL-4) Referred to H. Approps. Appropriations See KFF summary. NOTES: SFRC approach Senate Committee on Overseas Members of the family. HFAC approach the Space Committee on Overseas Affairs. H. approach Space. S. approach Senate. SFOPS approach Division of State, overseas operations, and connected techniques. LGBQTI+ approach lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, queer, or intersex. WHO is the International Well being Group. * Rather then those who observe to U.S. NGOs receiving sure overseas support underneath the Overseas Help Act.

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