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Senate Bills - 110th Congress
Session I | Session II
S. 2313The Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resistance Act
On November 6, 2007, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced S. 2313, the Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resistance Act. Provisions would amend the Public Health Service Act, Section 319E, Antimicrobial Resistance Task Force, to require the Secretary of HHS to establish an Office of Antimicrobial Resistance (OAR) within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and a Public Health Antimicrobial Advisory Board. Members named to the existing Task Force would include a representative of the NIH, other HHS components and other Federal agencies. Provisions would also require the Secretary, acting through the Directors of OAR, CDC and NIH, in consultation with other Federal agencies, to develop an antimicrobial resistance strategic research plan to strengthen existing epidemiological, interventional, clinical, translational, and basic research efforts and funding. In addition, the Secretary, through the NIH and CDC, would be required to establish 10 Antimicrobial Resistance Clinical Research and Public Health Network sites. S. 2313 has one cosponsor and was referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP). The measure is similar to H.R. 3697, which was introduced on September 27 by Representative Jim Matheson (D-UT).
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