[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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