[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1269 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1269

To improve global health by increasing assistance to developing nations 
    with high levels of infectious disease and premature death, by 
  improving children's and women's health and nutrition, by reducing 
   unintended pregnancies, and by combating the spread of infectious 
        diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 28, 2001

Mr. Crowley (for himself, Mrs. Lowey, Mrs. Morella, Ms. Kilpatrick, Mr. 
Hinchey, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Rangel, Ms. Slaughter, Mrs. Meek of Florida, 
  Mr. Frost, Mr. Pastor, Ms. DeLauro, Ms. McKinney, Mr. Hilliard, Mr. 
 Wexler, Mrs. Maloney of New York, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Baca, Ms. Brown of 
 Florida, Mr. Hall of Ohio, Mr. Delahunt, Mr. Frank, Mr. Abercrombie, 
     Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas, Mr. McGovern, Mr. George Miller of 
California, Mr. Waxman, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Filner, Ms. Rivers, Mr. Owens, 
  Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mr. McNulty, Mr. Engel, Mr. Rush, Ms. Lee, Mrs. 
McCarthy of New York, Ms. Waters, Mr. Weiner, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Boucher, 
Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Sabo, Mr. Gonzalez, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Lampson, Mr. 
Brady of Pennsylvania, Ms. Baldwin, Ms. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Nadler, 
 Mr. Allen, Mr. Blumenauer, and Mr. Sherman) introduced the following 
  bill; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To improve global health by increasing assistance to developing nations 
    with high levels of infectious disease and premature death, by 
  improving children's and women's health and nutrition, by reducing 
   unintended pregnancies, and by combating the spread of infectious 
        diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS, 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 ``Global Health Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) Approximately \1/2\ of all childhood deaths each year 
        in developing nations, or 4,900,000 childhood deaths, are 
        caused by pneumonia, diarrheal diseases, malaria, or measles. 
        Every day approximately 13,500 children in developing nations 
        die from such conditions.
            (2) Despite progress in making family planning services 
        available, more than 150,000,000 married women in developing 
        nations still want to space or limit child bearing, but do not 
        have access to modern contraceptives.
            (3) According to the World Health Organization, 
        approximately 500,000 women die each year from complications of 
        pregnancy and childbirth, and more than 50,000,000 women suffer 
        from acute pregnancy-related health conditions that can be 
        permanently disabling.
            (4) According to the World Health Organization, 13,000,000 
        people die annually from infectious diseases, most of which are 
        preventable or curable, and 6 diseases account for 90 percent 
        of these deaths: pneumonia, diarrheal diseases, measles, 
        tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV/AIDS.
            (5) HIV/AIDS has become the world's leading infectious 
        disease threat, with 36,100,000 people infected worldwide, and 
        more than 15,000 new infections daily, of which more than 6,000 
        cases occur in people between the ages of 15 and 24.

SEC. 3. ASSISTANCE TO IMPROVE GLOBAL HEALTH.

    (a) Emphasis on Disease Surveillance and Prevention and Response to 
Disease Outbreaks.--Section 104(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151b(c)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
            ``(8) Congress recognizes the growing threat that 
        infectious diseases and other global health problems pose to 
        Americans and people everywhere. Accordingly, activities 
        supported under this subsection shall include activities to 
        improve the capacity of developing nations to conduct disease 
        surveillance and prevention programs and to respond promptly 
        and effectively to disease outbreaks.''.
    (b) Increase in USAID Assistance for FY 2002  and Subsequent Fiscal 
Years.--
            (1) Authorization of appropriations.--To carry out the 
        purposes of section 104 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
        (22 U.S.C. 2151b) for fiscal year 2002 and for each subsequent 
        fiscal year, there are authorized to be appropriated, in 
        addition to funds otherwise available for such purposes, the 
        following amounts for the following purposes:
                    (A) The amount equal to the aggregate of amounts 
                made available for the immediately preceding fiscal 
                year to carry out that section with respect to the 
                health and survival of children, the health and 
                nutrition of pregnant women and mothers, voluntary 
                family planning, combating HIV/AIDS, and the prevention 
                and control of infectious diseases other than HIV/AIDS, 
                to be used for such purposes.
                    (B) $1,000,000,000, to be available in accordance 
                with paragraph (2).
            (2) Allocation of funds.--Of the amount authorized to be 
        appropriated in paragraph (1)(B)--
                    (A) $275,000,000 should be available for combating 
                HIV/AIDS;
                    (B) $225,000,000 should be available for the health 
                and survival of children;
                    (C) $200,000,000 should be available for the 
                prevention and control of infectious diseases other 
                than HIV/AIDS;
                    (D) $200,000,000 should be available for voluntary 
                family planning; and
                    (E) $100,000,000 should be available for the health 
                and nutrition of pregnant women and mothers.
            (3) Availability of funds.--Amounts appropriated pursuant 
        to paragraph (1) are authorized to remain available until 
        expended.
    (c) Coordination Among Federal Departments and Agencies.--It is the 
sense of Congress that the President, acting through the Administrator 
of the United States Agency for International Development, should 
coordinate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the 
National Institutes of Health, the Department of State, the Department 
of Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense, and other 
appropriate Federal departments and agencies to ensure that United 
States funds made available to carry out section 104 of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151b) are utilized effectively.

SEC. 4. DEFINITION.

    In this Act, the term ``HIV/AIDS'' means infection with the human 
immunodeficiency virus. Such term includes the acquired immune 
deficiency syndrome.
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