[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 43 (Thursday, March 17, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1606-S1607]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    ADDING ZIKA VIRUS TO THE FDA PRIORITY REVIEW VOUCHER PROGRAM ACT

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 389, S. 2512.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2512) to expand the tropical disease product 
     priority review voucher program to encourage treatments for 
     Zika virus.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill, 
which had been reported from the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
and Pensions, with an amendment to strike all after the enacting clause 
and insert in lieu thereof the following:

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Adding Zika Virus to the FDA 
     Priority Review Voucher Program Act''.

     SEC. 2. EXPANDING TROPICAL DISEASE PRODUCT PRIORITY REVIEW 
                   VOUCHER PROGRAM TO ENCOURAGE TREATMENTS FOR 
                   ZIKA VIRUS DISEASE.

       Section 524(a)(3) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 
     Act (21 U.S.C. 360n(a)(3)) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating subparagraph (R) as subparagraph (S);
       (2) in subparagraph (Q), by striking ``Filoviruses'' and 
     inserting ``Filovirus Diseases''; and
       (3) by inserting after subparagraph (Q) the following:
       ``(R) Zika Virus Disease.''.

  Mr. McCONNELL. I ask unanimous consent that the committee-reported 
substitute amendment be agreed to, the bill, as amended, be read a 
third time and passed, and the motion to reconsider be considered made 
and laid upon the table.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The committee-reported amendment in the nature of a substitute was 
agreed to.
  The bill (S. 2512), as amended, was ordered to be engrossed for a 
third reading, was read the third time, and passed.

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