3.0.0 1880 2023-01-13T04:49:48Z 2023-01-13T04:49:48Z Senate S S 2005-10-17 109 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2005-10-17T23:10:16Z 2005-10-17 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2005-10-17 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000105 Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] EDWARD KENNEDY D MA MOORE N D000388 Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] CHRISTOPHER DODD D CT JOHN 2005-10-17 True H000206 Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] THOMAS HARKIN D IA RICHARD 2005-10-17 True M000702 Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD] BARBARA MIKULSKI D MD ANN 2005-10-17 True B000468 Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] JESSE BINGAMAN D NM FRANCIS 2005-10-17 True C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R 2005-10-17 True S000148 Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] Charles Schumer D NY E. 2005-10-17 True O000167 Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL] Barack Obama D IL 2005-10-17 True D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2005-10-19 False R000122 Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI] John Reed D RI F. 2005-10-19 False Health AIDS (Disease) Administrative procedure Advice and consent of the Senate Agricultural research Agricultural subsidies Agriculture and Food Animals Antibiotics Armed Forces and National Security Armed forces abroad Awards, medals, prizes Biological warfare Biotechnology Chemical warfare Claims Commemorations Commerce Compensation (Law) Congress Congressional investigations Congressional reporting requirements Construction costs Crime and Law Enforcement Curricula Data banks Department of Defense Department of Health and Human Services Developing countries Drug approvals Drug industry Economics and Public Finance Education Emergency Management Emergency medicine Epidemics Epidemiology Executive reorganization Families Family farms Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to education Federal aid to health facilities Federal aid to research Federal installations Food safety Fraud Government Operations and Politics Government lending Government liability Government paperwork Government procurement Government publicity Health education Health information systems Health planning Health surveys Higher education Hospitals Industrial buildings Influenza International Affairs Law Licenses Limitation of actions Livestock Malaria Medical education Medical personnel Medical research Medical technology Medicated feeds Military dependents Military medicine Military personnel National Institutes of Health (NIH) Negligence Nonprofit organizations Nuclear terrorism Pharmaceutical research Poultry Presidential appointments Preventive medicine Product development Product safety Profit Public health administration Research centers Research grants Restrictive trade practices Science, Technology, Communications Social Welfare Strategic planning Terrorism Tissue banks Trusts and trustees Tuberculosis Vaccination Vaccines Veterinary medicine Virus diseases Volunteer workers Wholesale trade World health Health 00 2005-10-17 Introduced in Senate 2005-12-16T16:29:43Z National Biodefense and Pandemic Preparedness Act of 2005 - Establishes the National BioVenture Trust as a federal government corporation to administer the BioShield Act and support the development of countermeasures. Requires the Trust to establish a Vulnerable Populations Working Group.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide for adequate countermeasure domestic manufacturing capacity and construction of additional facilities.

Expands the definition of "security countermeasure" to include vaccines or microbicides used to treat or prevent certain diseases or viruses that may contribute to a pandemic.

Provides incentives for development and production of countermeasures.

Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide grants to support the cost of screening, research, development, testing, and initial manufacture of potential candidates for countermeasures.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Commission of Food and Drugs, to facilitate the prompt development, review, and approval of security countermeasures.

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require postmarket studies for countermeasures after an exigency requiring the use of the drug arises.

Establishes the Biodefense Injury Compensation Program to provide compensation for damages that are likely caused by the administration of a covered countermeasure.

Extends liability protection for health professionals administering small pox countermeasures to include other countermeasures.

Sets forth provisions regarding pandemic influenza preparedness plans, a buyback program for influenza vaccines, price gouging, an influenza vaccine electronic tracking system, and critical antimicrobial drugs.

Establishes the National Institute of Pathology and a Board of Regents of the Institute. Transfers to the Institute certain functions of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

Requires the Secretary to establish the National Advisory Committee on Vulnerable Populations and Terrorism.

Requires the Secretary to establish a Select Agent Advisory Committee to advise on matters related to security checks for individuals handling biological agents or toxins.

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