S. 962 · 117th Congress
American Cures Act
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This bill permanently funds several federal agencies and programs that perform biomedical research.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Mar 24, 2021
American Cures Act
This bill permanently funds several federal agencies and programs that perform biomedical research.
The bill provides specified funding for
- the National Institutes of Health,
- the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
- the Department of Defense health program, and
- the Department of Veterans Affairs medical and prosthetics research program.
The bill exempts the funding from sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.
It also exempts the budgetary effects of the funding from the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO) and the Senate PAYGO rule.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: American Cures Act
Latest action (Mar 24, 2021): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. (text: CR S1770-1771)
Policy area: Health · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Mar 24, 2021
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.