3.0.0 1619 2022-11-01T05:47:42Z 2022-11-01T05:47:42Z Senate S 2019-05-22 116 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-05-22T21:44:03Z Lower Health Care Costs Act 116 1895 S 2019-07-08 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 133. Related bill CRS 2019-05-22 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2019-05-22 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress P000595 Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI] Gary Peters D MI N R000307 Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS] PAT ROBERTS R KS 2019-05-22 True D000622 Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL] Tammy Duckworth D IL 2019-05-22 True Health Child health Congressional oversight Government information and archives Health programs administration and funding Health promotion and preventive care Immunology and vaccination Infectious and parasitic diseases Medical research Performance measurement Health 00 2019-05-22 Introduced in Senate 2021-02-04T18:26:17Z Vaccine Awareness Campaign to Champion Immunization Nationally and Enhance Safety Act of 2019 or the VACCINES Act

This bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to award grants to support a national campaign to increase vaccination rates. The CDC may also award certain project grants to help states, local governments, and other public entities understand barriers to vaccination, improve vaccination rates, and assess certain public health outcomes related to vaccinations.

]]> VACCINES Act Display Title VACCINES Act Short Title(s) as Introduced VACCINES Act Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Vaccine Awareness Campaign to Champion Immunization Nationally and Enhance Safety Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a national campaign to raise awareness of the importance of, and combat misinformation about, vaccines in order to increase vaccination rates. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s1619is/xml/BILLS-116s1619is.xml 2019-05-22 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.