119-hr675

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 675 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 675

To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in collaboration 
 with the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and the 
 Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and in 
 coordination with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, to establish a program of entering into partnerships 
 with eligible domestic manufacturers to ensure the availability of 
 qualified personal protective equipment to prepare for and respond to 
 national health or other emergencies, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 January 23, 2025

 Mr. Griffith introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently 
 determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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 A BILL

To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in collaboration 
 with the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and the 
 Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and in 
 coordination with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, to establish a program of entering into partnerships 
 with eligible domestic manufacturers to ensure the availability of 
 qualified personal protective equipment to prepare for and respond to 
 national health or other emergencies, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Domestic Security Using Production 
Partnerships and Lessons from Yesterday Act of 2025'' or the ``Domestic 
SUPPLY Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL DEFENSE AND HEALTH SECURITY DOMESTIC MANUFACTURING 
 PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary, in collaboration with the Assistant 
Secretary for Preparedness and Response and the Director of the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, and in coordination with the 
Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall 
establish a program of entering into partnerships with eligible 
domestic manufacturers to ensure the availability of qualified personal 
protective equipment for preparing for, and responding to, public 
health emergencies.

    (b) Contractual Purchasing Agreements.--

    (1) Process.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
 enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall finalize a process 
 for entering into contractual purchasing agreements with 
 eligible domestic manufacturers to implement the partnerships 
 described in subsection

    (a) .

    (2) Contents.--The contractual purchasing agreements 
 entered into under this section, collectively, shall--
        (A) guarantee the availability of supplies and 
 manufacturing lines to produce qualified personal 
 protective equipment in amounts specified by the 
 Secretary to prepare for and respond to public health 
 emergencies; and
        (B) fulfill such other requirements as are--
            (i) deemed necessary by the Secretary to 
 prepare for and respond to a public health 
 emergency; and
            (ii) covered under the contractual 
 purchasing agreement.
            (c) Eligible Domestic Manufacturers.--To be eligible to participate 
in a partnership described in subsection

    (a) , a manufacturer shall--

    (1) be headquartered in the continental United States;

    (2) manufacture in the continental United States 50 percent 
 of their of the products in 2026, 75 percent of their products 
 by 2027, and 100 percent of their products by 2028 to be 
 supplied to the Federal Government pursuant to such 
 partnership;

    (3) be majority owned and operated by United States 
 citizens;

    (4) have supply agreements in place to verify supply chain 
 security and sourcing; and

    (5) attest in writing to the fact that the manufacturer's 
 entire product lines meet or exceed all applicable quality 
 guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
 and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
            (d) Qualified Personal Protective Equipment.--

    (1) In general.--The Secretary shall maintain a list of 
 products that are eligible for treatment as qualified personal 
 protective equipment under this section.

    (2) Requirements.--To be included on the list under 
 paragraph

    (1) , a product shall--
        (A) meet or exceed all applicable quality 
 guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and 
 Prevention and the Occupational Safety and Health 
 Administration;
        (B) have been cleared under 

section 510

    (k) of the 
 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 
 360

    (k) ); and
            (C) be priced using fair-market benchmarks 
 established by the Secretary.

    (e) 

=== Definitions. ===
-In this section:

    (1) The term ``public health emergency'' means a public 
 health emergency for which a declaration is in effect under 
 

section 319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d).

    (2) The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Health 
 and Human Services.

SEC. 3. DOMESTIC PROCUREMENT OF CLOTHING OR EQUIPMENT USED TO PREVENT 
 THE TRANSMISSION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

    (a) In General.--No agency of the Federal government or of a State 
or local government may use Federal funds made available on or after 
the date of the enactment of this Act to procure clothing or equipment 
used to prevent the transmission of infectious disease that is 
manufactured outside the United States.

    (b) Exceptions.--The exceptions in subparagraphs
        (A) and
        (B) of 
subsection

    (a)

    (2) of 

section 8302 of title 41, United States Code, 
shall apply with respect to the prohibition in paragraph

    (1) of this 
subsection to the same extent and in the same manner as such exceptions 
apply with respect to the prohibition in subsection

    (a)

    (1) of such 

section 8302.
            (c) Exception Documentation.--In the case of an exception described 
in subsection

    (b) , documentation, including a detailed justification 
for the use of the exception, shall be submitted by the official 
responsible for applying the exception.

SEC. 4. REPORT ON THE IMPACT OF CHANGES TO PPE REQUIREMENTS ON 
 FRONTLINE WORKER SAFETY.

 Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the 
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, shall 
submit a report to the Congress on--

    (1) the changes to the Federal requirements applicable to 
 personal protective equipment that have taken place since the 
 beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic; and

    (2) the impact of these changes on the safety of physicians 
 and other medical professionals caring for patients face-to-
 face during the years 2020 and 2021.
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