[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 148 (Wednesday, September 13, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5671]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1005. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2018 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of 
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:

     SEC. __. AFFORDABLE ZIKA VACCINE.

       The Secretary of Health and Human Services may approve an 
     application under section 351(a) of the Public Health Service 
     Act (42 U.S.C. 262(a)) for a vaccine against the Zika virus 
     developed in whole or in part by the Walter Reed Army 
     Institute for Research and the Department of the Army only if 
     the application meets the criteria for approval pursuant to 
     such section and the sponsor--
       (1) is the Walter Reed Army Institute for Research or the 
     Department of the Army; or
       (2) has entered into a licensing agreement with the 
     Secretary of Defense to provide for the manufacturing and 
     introduction into interstate commerce of such vaccine and 
     such agreement provides--
       (A) that the manufacturing and marketing of such vaccine is 
     non-exclusive; or
       (B) for the reasonable pricing of such vaccine.
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