[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3577 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3577

  To require the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response to 
establish an automated supply chain tracking application that provides 
 near real-time insight into the amount of critical medical and health 
        supplies available in the Strategic National Stockpile.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 22, 2023

   Mr. Hudson (for himself, Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Balderson, and Mrs. 
   Trahan) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response to 
establish an automated supply chain tracking application that provides 
 near real-time insight into the amount of critical medical and health 
        supplies available in the Strategic National Stockpile.

    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 ``Medical and Health Stockpile 
Accountability Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. TRACKING AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF SUPPLIES IN THE NATIONAL 
              STOCKPILE.

    Section 319F-2 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d-6b) 
is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (i); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (g) the following:
    ``(h) Tracking and Accountability of Supplies in the Stockpile.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Assistant Secretary for Preparedness 
        and Response (in this subsection referred to as the `Assistant 
        Secretary') shall establish an automated supply chain tracking 
        application that provides near real-time insight into the 
        amount of critical medical and health supplies available in the 
        stockpile under subsection (a), and available in the medical 
        and health supply inventories of State, Tribal, territories, 
        and local and private entities such as hospitals, 
        manufacturers, and distributors.
            ``(2) Access and use of the application.--The Assistant 
        Secretary shall establish rules for data access, and use of, 
        the application established under paragraph (1). Such rules 
        shall--
                    ``(A) require internal tracking, pursuant to 
                subsection (d), of all supplies within the stockpile 
                under subsection (a), in a manner that is visible to 
                Federal entities identified by the Assistant Secretary;
                    ``(B) allow for data access, by Federal entities 
                during an emergency response, as determined by the 
                Assistant Secretary, to the medical and health supply 
                stockpiles of State, Tribal, territories, and local and 
                private partners;
                    ``(C) establish, after consultation with public and 
                private partners, a national standard for collecting 
                and reporting data related to products maintained in 
                the stockpile, including--
                            ``(i) data standards for category of 
                        products, nomenclature, and standards for 
                        coding of each product for entities to report 
                        product availability in their Federal, State, 
                        and local jurisdictions;
                            ``(ii) application of the standard to 
                        Tribal and local stockpiles; and
                            ``(iii) a data dictionary defining terms, 
                        such as `burn rate', `calculation of supply-on-
                        hand', and other appropriate terms;
                    ``(D) ensure clear and efficient mechanisms for 
                health care entities, including hospitals, 
                manufacturers, and distributors, to report data in an 
                emergency that supports medical and health supply chain 
                management and surge re-deployment, including detailed 
                data regarding all relevant supplies secured and 
                available;
                    ``(E) allow access by the Administration for 
                Strategic Preparedness and Response to data from 
                different vendor management systems, through automated 
                feeds from health care entities, eliminating manual 
                reporting errors from health care entities;
                    ``(F) establish the parameters for permitted and 
                prohibited government data access and uses;
                    ``(G) ensure that the Administration for Strategic 
                Preparedness and Response protects any data from 
                hospitals, manufacturers, and distributors that is 
                shared through the application, including protection of 
                confidential, proprietary, commercial, and trade secret 
                information;
                    ``(H) ensure that Federal data collection is for 
                monitoring and dynamic allocation and will not be used 
                to remove or reallocate inventory from organizations;
                    ``(I) ensure that data will not be used by 
                suppliers for commercial or contractual purposes;
                    ``(J) ensure that reported data will not be used to 
                advantage or disadvantage any institution over another 
                or to undermine the competitive marketplace; and
                    ``(K) ensure that the application interfaces, for 
                tracking management purposes, with the National 
                Disaster Recovery Framework of the Federal Emergency 
                Management Agency, appropriate dashboards of the 
                Department of Defense, and other appropriate Federal 
                partners.
            ``(3) Participation by private entities.--The application 
        established under paragraph (1) shall support the voluntary 
        sharing of data and accessing data by private health care 
        supply chain entities, by allowing such entities to display 
        near real-time data relating to inventory and time estimates 
        for when inventories may be replenished.
            ``(4) Annual exercise.--The Assistant Secretary shall 
        provide for an annual exercise hosted by the Administration for 
        Strategic Preparedness and Response to test the effectiveness 
        of the application established under paragraph (1), and to 
        provide an opportunity to report, not later than 180 days after 
        publication of the standards described in paragraph (2)(C), any 
        inefficiencies or deficiencies in the application.
            ``(5) Program of support.--The Assistant Secretary shall 
        establish a program to assist State, local, and private health 
        care entities, such as rural, critical access, or community 
        hospitals, that do not have an automated vendor management 
        system in developing or obtaining such a system.
            ``(6) Authorization of appropriations.--There are 
        authorized to be appropriated to the Assistant Secretary for 
        the acquisition and development of an application under this 
        section, $250,000,000 to remain available for fiscal years 2024 
        through 2029.''.
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