American Made Strategic National Stockpile Act of 2020

American Made Strategic National Stockpile Act of 2020

This bill requires that medicines and other products procured for the Strategic National Stockpile be produced domestically, unless they contain materials determined to be unavailable in the United States at an acceptable quality and price or otherwise meet specified exceptions.

In addition, the Department of Health and Human Services must post a notification on the General Services Administration website within seven days of procuring a product for the stockpile from a foreign source.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7989 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7989

  To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that 
    countermeasures or products procured for the national strategic 
  stockpile are grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United 
                    States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 7, 2020

Mr. Trone (for himself and Mr. Crawford) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that 
    countermeasures or products procured for the national strategic 
  stockpile are grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United 
                    States, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``American Made Strategic National 
Stockpile Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL PROCUREMENT REQUIREMENT FOR STRATEGIC NATIONAL 
              STOCKPILE.

    (a) United States-Made Requirement.--Section 319F-2(a)(3) of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d-6b(a)(3)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (I), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (J), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(K) ensure that countermeasures or products 
                procured for the stockpile are grown, reprocessed, 
                reused, or produced in the United States, unless such 
                countermeasure or product meets an exception under 
                paragraph (6).''.
    (b) Exceptions.--Section 319F-2(a) of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 247d-6b(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) Procurement exceptions and additional requirement.--
                    ``(A) Availability.--The requirement under 
                paragraph (3)(K) may not apply to a countermeasure or 
                product that--
                            ``(i) is, or includes, a material 
                        determined to be nonavailable under the Federal 
                        Acquisition Regulation (as defined in section 
                        2302 of title 10, United States Code); or
                            ``(ii) is not--
                                    ``(I) available as determined by 
                                the Secretary;
                                    ``(II) of sufficient quality; and
                                    ``(III) available at market price.
                    ``(B) Small purchases.--The requirement under 
                paragraph (3)(K) shall not apply to a countermeasure or 
                product that has a purchase amount that is equal to or 
                less than $150,000. Such amount may not be divided into 
                multiple purchases to meet the exception under this 
                subparagraph.
                    ``(C) Notification.--Notwithstanding subsection 
                (d), in applying the exceptions under this paragraph, 
                the Secretary shall, not later than 7 days after 
                procuring a countermeasure or product for the stockpile 
                under subsection (a), post a notification with respect 
                to such exception on a website maintained by the 
                Administrator of General Services.''.
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