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118th Congress · HOUSE BILLBILL

H.R. 5575 — Safe Medicine Act

“To direct the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Defense, and Veterans Affairs to end American over-dependence on Chinese pharmaceuticals by encouraging the growth of a robust domestic medicine supply chain for generic drugs, to empower the Food and Drug Administration to issue boxed warnings in the case of critical contamination, and for other purposes.”

Health
Introduced Sep 19, 2023
Last action Dec 17, 2024
Pipeline · Bill → Law
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Introduced
Sep 19, 2023
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Referred
Dec 17, 2024
Armed Services · E&C · Veterans' Affairs +1
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Committee
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House floor
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Senate
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SummaryCRS Summary

This bill addresses issues related to the manufacture of drugs, including essential medicines. The Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs must jointly develop and implement a strategy to increase the domestic production of essential medicines, medical countermeasures, and critical inputs. If the Food and Drug Administration determines that a drug or active pharmaceutical ingredient is manufactured in a country that may be producing contaminated drugs or ingredients due to systemic manufacturing-related problems, the labeling for that drug or ingredient must have a boxed warning about the potential for contamination. For g...

Provisions · 5 sectionsIntroduced in House
Timeline · 9 actions
Dec 17, 2024
Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Dec 17, 2024
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Sep 28, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Sep 22, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Sep 19, 2023
Introduced in House
Sep 19, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs, and 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.
Sep 19, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs, and 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.
Sep 19, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs, and 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.
Sep 19, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs, and 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.