Disease X Act of 2023

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3832 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3832

To establish a program at BARDA for developing medical countermeasures 
               for viral threats with pandemic potential.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 5, 2023

  Mrs. Trahan (for herself, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Crenshaw, and Ms. Lee of 
   Nevada) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To establish a program at BARDA for developing medical countermeasures 
               for viral threats with pandemic potential.

    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 ``Disease X Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES FOR VIRAL THREATS WITH PANDEMIC 
              POTENTIAL.

    Section 319L(c)(4) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
247d-7e(c)(4)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (D)--
                    (A) in clause (ii), by striking ``; and'' and 
                inserting a semicolon;
                    (B) by redesignating clause (iii) as clause (v); 
                and
                    (C) by inserting after clause (ii) the following:
                            ``(iii) the identification and development 
                        of platform manufacturing technologies needed 
                        for advanced development and manufacturing of 
                        medical countermeasures for viral families 
                        which have significant potential to cause a 
                        pandemic;
                            ``(iv) advanced research and development of 
                        flexible medical countermeasures against 
                        priority respiratory virus families and other 
                        respiratory viral pathogens with a significant 
                        potential to cause a pandemic, with both 
                        pathogen-specific and pathogen-agnostic 
                        approaches; and''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (F)--
                    (A) in clause (ii), by striking ``; and'' at the 
                end and inserting a semicolon;
                    (B) in clause (iii), by striking the period and 
                inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iv) priority virus families and other 
                        viral pathogens with a significant potential to 
                        cause a pandemic.''.
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