[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3840 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3840

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize certain contracts 
 and cooperative agreements with clinical laboratories for purposes of 
   delivery of medical products to the Strategic National Stockpile.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 6, 2023

   Mr. Dunn of Florida (for himself and Mrs. Dingell) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize certain contracts 
 and cooperative agreements with clinical laboratories for purposes of 
   delivery of medical products to 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 ``Ensuring Sufficient Supply of 
Testing Act''.

SEC. 2. CONTRACTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS WITH CLINICAL LABORATORIES 
              FOR THE STRATEGIC NATIONAL STOCKPILE.

    Section 319F-2(a)(5)(A) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
247d-6b(a)(5)(A)) is amended by inserting after ``contracts or 
cooperative agreements with vendors, which may include manufacturers or 
distributors of medical products,'' the following: ``as well as 
clinical laboratories,''.
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