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118th Congress Health

H.R. 5575: Safe Medicine Act

Introduced

  1. Introduced (completed)Sep 19, 2023
  2. Passed House (not reached)
  3. Passed Senate (not reached)
  4. To the President (not reached)
  5. Became law (not reached)

Summary

Introduced in House, Sep 19, 2023

This bill addresses issues related to the manufacture of drugs, including essential medicines.

The Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs must jointly develop and implement a strategy to increase the domestic production of essential medicines, medical countermeasures, and critical inputs.

If the Food and Drug Administration determines that a drug or active pharmaceutical ingredient is manufactured in a country that may be producing contaminated drugs or ingredients due to systemic manufacturing-related problems, the labeling for that drug or ingredient must have a boxed warning about the potential for contamination.

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For government procurement purposes, the President's authority to waive certain purchasing requirements that discriminate against foreign products may not be used to waive any preferences for goods that are essential medicines, medical countermeasures, or critical inputs.

Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.

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History

  1. Sep 19, 2023Introduced in the House by Bill Posey.
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  1. Dec 17, 2024Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
  2. Dec 17, 2024Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  3. Sep 28, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  4. Sep 22, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  5. Sep 19, 2023Introduced in House
  6. Sep 19, 2023Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.