[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4459 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4459

  To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to specify the 
    duration of contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, or other 
   transactions awarded or entered into with the Biomedical Advanced 
      Research and Development Authority, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 3, 2023

 Mr. Griffith introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to specify the 
    duration of contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, or other 
   transactions awarded or entered into with the Biomedical Advanced 
      Research and Development Authority, 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 ``Improving Contract Transparency at 
BARDA Act''.

SEC. 2. DURATION OF AGREEMENTS WITH BARDA.

    Section 319L(c)(5) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
247d-7e(c)(5)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(I) Duration.--A contract, grant, cooperative 
                agreement, or other transaction entered into under this 
                section shall be for a period not to exceed five years, 
                except that, in first awarding the grant or entering 
                into the contract, cooperative agreement, or other 
                transaction, the Secretary may provide for a longer 
                duration, not exceeding 10 years, if the Secretary 
                determines that complexities or other difficulties in 
                performance under the contract, grant, cooperative 
                agreement, or other transaction justify such a period. 
                The contract, grant, cooperative agreement, or other 
                transaction shall be renewable for additional periods, 
                none of which shall exceed five years. The Secretary 
                shall notify the vendor within 90 days of a 
                determination by the Secretary to modify, renew, 
                extend, or terminate such contract, grant, cooperative 
                agreement, or other transaction.''.
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