United StatesAmerican Cures Act
What it does
This bill permanently funds several federal agencies and programs that perform biomedical research.
More detail
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 (PAYGO) Act of 2010 and the Senate PAYGO rule.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To President
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- May 12Introduced in SenateLatest
- May 12Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. (text: CR S2239)Introduced