Senate Bills - 109th Congress

S. 1828—The Influenza Vaccine Security Act of 2005

On October 6, 2005, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) introduced S. 1828, the Influenza Vaccine Security Act of 2005, to amend the Public Health Service (PHS) Act to improve and secure an adequate supply of influenza vaccine. Research provisions would require (1) the NIAID to solicit proposals for research into improved technologies for influenza vaccine development, (2) the Director, NIAID, acting jointly with the Director of the Institute’s Intramural Program and the Scientific Director of the Vaccine Research Center, to review its extramural vaccine development research grants to identify research with potential for providing the nation with improved technologies for vaccine production that could be marketed in this country within 10 years of enactment of the bill, and (3) the Director, NIAID, to provide supplementary grant funding for such research identified. Authorized would be $100,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2007 through 2011. S. 1828 is cosponsored by Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) and was referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

Legislative Update (December 2006): Attacking Viral Influenza Across Nations Act of 2005