S. 2469 · 115th Congress
STAAR Act
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Strategies To Address Antibiotic Resistance Act or the STAAR Act This bill expands various initiatives to address antibiotic resistance.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Feb 28, 2018
Strategies To Address Antibiotic Resistance Act or the STAAR Act
This bill expands various initiatives to address antibiotic resistance.
The bill reestablishes the interagency Antimicrobial Resistance Task Force to coordinate and develop efforts addressing antibiotic resistance.
The Department of Health and Human Services must encourage health care facilities to implement antimicrobial stewardship programs to evaluate and improve the use of antimicrobial drugs.
The bill also requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to use the National Healthcare Safety Network to collect and report data about the usage of antibiotic drugs, changes in resistance to such drugs, and other trends impacting patient outcomes.
Additionally, the bill increases nationwide efforts to monitor, research, and prevent the spread of infection from resistant organisms by
- establishing the Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance and Laboratory Network in at least seven geographic regions,
- establishing the Clinical Trials Network on Antibacterial Resistance to conduct clinical research, and
- requiring the CDC to collaborate with state and local agencies to support health care facilities that focus on preventing the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: STAAR Act
Also known as: Strategies to Address Antibiotic Resistance Act
Latest action (Feb 28, 2018): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Policy area: Health · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Feb 28, 2018
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.