House passes BioShield research bill
Emergency Management Alert, July 23, 2003
The House of Representatives on July 16 approved a bill designed to encourage companies to develop diagnostic tests, vaccines, and treatments for potential bioterrorism weapons, Reuters reports.
The Project BioShield Act of 2003 passed by a 421-2 margin. The legislation would provide up to $5.6 billion over the next 10 years for research into new countermeasures for such agents of germ warfare as smallpox, anthrax, Ebola, and plague. It would also give the secretary of Health and Human Services authority in emergency situations to use drugs or treatments not yet federally approved.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee unanimously approved a version of the BioShield bill in March, but Sen. Robert Byrd, D-WV, blocked it from a vote in the full Senate. Byrd, the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said the bill's guaranteed funding should not be allowed to bypass the committee.
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