[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6520 Introduced in House (IH)]
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117th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6520
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an
automated supply chain tracking application that provides near real-
time insight into the amount of critical medical and health supplies
available in the Strategic National Stockpile.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 28, 2022
Mr. Gottheimer (for himself, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Balderson, Ms. Bourdeaux,
Mr. McKinley, and Mrs. Trahan) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
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A BILL
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an
automated supply chain tracking application that provides near real-
time insight into the amount of critical medical and health supplies
available in the Strategic National Stockpile.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Medical and Health Stockpile
Accountability Act of 2022''.
SEC. 2. TRACKING AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF SUPPLIES IN THE NATIONAL
STOCKPILE.
Section 319F-2 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d-6b)
is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (i); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (g) the following:
``(h) Tracking and Accountability of Supplies in the Stockpile.--
``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall establish an
automated supply chain tracking application that provides near
real-time insight into the amount of critical medical and
health supplies available in the stockpile under subsection
(a), and available in the medical and health supply inventories
of State, Tribal, territories, and local and private entities
such as hospitals, manufacturers, and distributors.
``(2) Access and use of the application.--The Secretary
shall establish rules for data access, and use of, the
application established under paragraph (1). Such rules shall--
``(A) require internal tracking, pursuant to
subsection (d), of all supplies within the stockpile
under subsection (a), in a manner that is visible to
Federal entities identified by the Secretary;
``(B) allow for data access, by Federal entities
during an emergency response, as determined by the
Secretary, to the medical and health supply stockpiles
of State, Tribal, territories, and local and private
partners;
``(C) establish, after consultation with public and
private partners, a national standard for collecting
and reporting data related to products maintained in
the stockpile, including--
``(i) data standards for category of
products, nomenclature, and standards for
coding of each product for entities to report
product availability in their Federal, State,
and local jurisdictions;
``(ii) application of the standard to
Tribal and local stockpiles; and
``(iii) a data dictionary defining terms,
such as `burn rate', `calculation of supply-on-
hand', and other appropriate terms;
``(D) ensure clear and efficient mechanisms for
health care entities, including hospitals,
manufacturers, and distributors, to report data in an
emergency that supports medical and health supply chain
management and surge re-deployment, including detailed
data regarding all relevant supplies secured and
available;
``(E) allow access by the Department of Health and
Human Services to data from different vendor management
systems, through automated feeds from health care
entities, eliminating manual reporting errors from
health care entities;
``(F) establish the parameters for permitted and
prohibited government data access and uses;
``(G) ensure that the Department of Health and
Human Services protects any data from hospitals,
manufacturers, and distributors that is shared through
the application, including protection of confidential,
proprietary, commercial, and trade secret information;
``(H) ensure that Federal data collection is for
monitoring and dynamic allocation and will not be used
to remove or reallocate inventory from organizations;
``(I) ensure that data will not be used by
suppliers for commercial or contractual purposes;
``(J) ensure that reported data will not be used to
advantage or disadvantage any institution over another
or to undermine the competitive marketplace; and
``(K) ensure that the application interfaces, for
tracking management purposes, with the National
Disaster Recovery Framework of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, appropriate dashboards of the
Department of Defense, and other appropriate Federal
partners.
``(3) Participation by private entities.--The application
established under paragraph (1) shall support the voluntary
sharing of data and accessing data by private health care
supply chain entities, by allowing such entities to display
near real-time data relating to inventory and time estimates
for when inventories may be replenished.
``(4) Annual exercise.--The Secretary shall provide for an
annual exercise hosted by the Department of Health and Human
Services to test the effectiveness of the application
established under paragraph (1), and to provide an opportunity
to report, not later than 180 days after publication of the
standards described in paragraph (2)(C), any inefficiencies or
deficiencies in the application.
``(5) Program of support.--The Secretary shall establish a
program to assist State, local, and private health care
entities, such as rural, critical access, or community
hospitals, that do not have an automated vendor management
system in developing or obtaining such a system.
``(6) Authorization of appropriations.--There are
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for the
acquisition and development of an application under this
section, $250,000,000 to remain available for fiscal years 2022
through 2027.''.
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