[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1892 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1892

 To provide authorizations of appropriations for the global initiative 
                 to end the continuing menace of polio.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 30, 2003

  Mr. Payne introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide authorizations of appropriations for the global initiative 
                 to end the continuing menace of polio.

    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 ``Ending Polio in Our Time Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

     The Congress finds as follows:
            (1) Polio has caused millions of casualties through 
        history, paralyzing millions and killing untold numbers of 
        others.
            (2) Polio remains a public health threat in today's world, 
        despite being easily preventable by vaccination.
            (3) Polio is now contained to seven countries, with the 
        distinct possibility that it can be once and forever 
        extinguished as an affliction on mankind within five years by 
        ensuring the vaccination of all children in these countries 
        under the age of five.
            (4) A Global Polio Eradication Initiative exists that seeks 
        to once and forever end polio as an illness, which includes 
        efforts underway by the Centers for Disease Control and 
        Prevention.
            (5) The United States has the capacity to act to speed the 
        eradication of polio by assisting in the targeting of its few 
        remaining reservoirs.

SEC. 3. FUNDING FOR POLIO ERADICATION ACTIVITIES.

    For the purpose of carrying out global polio eradication activities 
through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is 
authorized to be appropriated $275,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 
2004 and 2005.
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