US Congress House Bill 4400 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on September 19 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-09-20 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to maintain a website and undertake other activities to educate health care providers, patients, and caregivers about biological products, biosimilar biological products, and interchangeable biosimilar biological products. Among other activities, HHS must develop or improve continuing education programs that address clinical considerations for biological and related products. Health care providers eligible for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System in Medicare may count completion of such a program as a clinical practice improvement activity.

Advancing Education on Biosimilars Act of 2019

Rep. Larry Bucshon [R-IN]

Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-09-20	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2019-09-19	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2019-09-19	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2019-09-19	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2019-09-19	House	Introduced in House

SB1895 (Related) 2019-07-08 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 133.
HB19 (Related) 2019-12-19 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.
SB4796 (Related) 2020-10-05 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
HB8527 (Related) 2020-10-02 - Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Oversight and Reform, House Administration, Rules, the Budget, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/4400/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr4400/BILLS-116hr4400ih.pdf