US Congress House Bill 6609 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 36-0)
Status: Introduced on April 23 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-04-23 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Pending: House Financial Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires the President, within 24 hours of this bill's enactment, to issue purchase orders for a program of the highest national urgency (commonly known as a DX purchase order) to procure under the Defense Production Act of 1950 (DPA) supplies to conduct COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) medical testing nationwide. The supplies must have received prior approval from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or have received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for the detection of COVID-19. The bill waives certain DPA requirements relating to industrial resource and critical technology shortfalls and notification to Congress.

Immediate COVID Testing Procurement Act.

Rep. Jimmy Panetta [D-CA]	Rep. Anthony Brown [D-MD]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Gil Cisneros [D-CA]
Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Adriano Espaillat [D-NY]	Rep. Tulsi Gabbard [D-HI]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]
Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]
Rep. Tom Malinowski [D-NJ]	Rep. Sean Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]	Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]
Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]	Rep. Dean Phillips [D-MN]
Rep. Kathleen Rice [D-NY]	Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger [D-MD]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Bradley Schneider [D-IL]
Rep. Terri Sewell [D-AL]	Rep. Albio Sires [D-NJ]	Rep. Abigail Spanberger [D-VA]	Rep. Thomas Suozzi [D-NY]
Rep. Filemon Vela [D-TX]	Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-LA]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. TJ Cox [D-CA]
Rep. Don Beyer [D-VA]	Rep. Elaine Luria [D-VA]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Val Demings [D-FL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-04-23	House	Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
2020-04-23	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6609/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr6609/BILLS-116hr6609ih.pdf