Bill Detail
S. 4494
Congress: 119
Title
American Cures Act
Summary
American Cures Act This bill permanently funds several federal agencies and programs that perform biomedical research. The bill provides specified funding for the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Defense health program, and the Department of Veterans Affairs medical and prosthetics research program. The bill exempts the funding from sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals. It also exempts the budgetary effects of the funding from the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010 and the Senate PAYGO rule.
Sponsor
Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Status as of Jun 19, 9:48 AM · synced 20d ago
Introduced
2026-05-12
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Bill Engagement
American Cures Act This bill permanently funds several federal agencies and programs that perform biomedical research.