To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to States and political subdivisions of States to support the improvement, renovation, or modernization of infrastructure at clinical laboratories that will help to improve SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 testing and response activities, including the expansion and enhancement of testing capacity at such laboratories.
Summary
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to award grants to states and localities for improving clinical laboratory infrastructure to expand COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) testing capacity.
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in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2021
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Introduced Mar 11, 2021
Last action Mar 12, 2021
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Mar 12, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
lower
Mar 11, 2021
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
lower
Mar 11, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
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Role
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Party
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Lizzie Fletcher
DDemocratic
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