Preventing Foreign Attempts To Erode Healthcare Innovation Act
Summary
Preventing Foreign Attempts to Erode Healthcare Innovation Act This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to support, allow, or facilitate the negotiation or approval of any measure at the World Trade Organization to waive intellectual property rights, including the waiver proposed by India and South Africa to suspend certain provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights to facilitate the prevention, containment, and treatment of COVID-19.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced May 18, 2021
Last action May 18, 2021
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Committee
1
May 18, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
upper
May 18, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Tim Scott
RRepublican
Co
Chuck Grassley
RRepublican
Co
Patrick J. Toomey
RRepublican
Co
Richard Burr
RRepublican
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