[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3401 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3401

To provide for the use of unobligated discretionary stimulus dollars to 
   address AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting lists and other cost 
          containment measures impacting State ADAP programs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 24, 2010

 Mr. Burr (for himself and Mr. Coburn) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the use of unobligated discretionary stimulus dollars to 
   address AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting lists and other cost 
          containment measures impacting State ADAP programs.

    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 ``Addressing Cost Containment Measures 
To Ensure the Sustainability and Success of ADAP Act'' or the ``ACCESS 
ADAP Act''.

SEC. 2. AIDS DRUG ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

    (a) Transfer.--There shall be transferred to the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, $126,000,000 from discretionary amounts 
appropriated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Public 
Law 111-5) that remain unobligated, to be used by the Secretary in 
fiscal year 2010 to provide assistance in reducing AIDS Drug Assistance 
Program (under section 2616 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
300ff-26)) waiting lists and to address other cost containment measures 
that State AIDS Drug Assistance Programs implement after January 1, 
2009. Amounts transferred under this section shall be used by States in 
a manner consistent with their State AIDS Drug Assistance Program.
    (b) Allocations.--In allocating funds transferred under subsection 
(a), the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall--
            (1) give special consideration to both the total scope, and 
        the basis, of a State's AIDS Drug Assistance Program needs, 
        including the total number of patients on a waiting list, 
        eligibility requirements, and other cost containment measures 
        implemented by a State's AIDS Drug Assistance Program; and
            (2) ensure that funds shall only be used to provide 
        treatments to individuals who were eligible to participate in 
        the State AIDS Drug Assistance Program on the date of enactment 
        of this Act.
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