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American Cures Act
A bill to prioritize funding for an expanded and sustained national investment in biomedical research.
- Introduced
- Committee
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To President
- Became law
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.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- May 12, 2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. (text: CR S2239)
- May 12, 2026 Introduced in Senate
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