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US HR4228

US HR4228
RARE Act of 2019 Rare disease Advancement, surveillance Research, and Education Act of 2019


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Introduced
09/06/2019
In Committee
09/09/2019
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
12/31/2020

Introduced Session

116th Congress

Bill Summary

To expand and improve the programs and activities of the Department of Health and Human Services for awareness, education, research, surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment concerning rare diseases and conditions. The bill reauthorizes through FY2024 the National Institutes of Health Rare Disease Regional Centers of Excellence and expands activities to facilitate research and increase awareness of rare diseases and conditions. (Rare diseases and conditions are those with a prevalence of fewer than 200,000 individuals in the United States.) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may expand infrastructure and activities to track the epidemiology of up to four rare diseases and conditions and incorporate this information into a National Rare Disease or Condition Surveillance System. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality must expand its activities to increase health care providers' awareness of rare diseases and conditions. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, or another appropriate entity, must update the 2010 report Rare Diseases and Orphan Products: Accelerating Research and Development.

AI Summary

This bill, the Rare disease Advancement, surveillance Research, and Education Act of 2019 or the RARE Act of 2019, aims to expand and improve the programs and activities of the Department of Health and Human Services for awareness, education, research, surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment concerning rare diseases and conditions. The key provisions of the bill are: 1. Reauthorizing through fiscal year 2024 the National Institutes of Health Rare Disease Regional Centers of Excellence and expanding activities to facilitate research and increase awareness of rare diseases and conditions. 2. Allowing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to expand infrastructure and activities to track the epidemiology of up to four rare diseases and conditions, and incorporate this information into a National Rare Disease or Condition Surveillance System. 3. Requiring the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to expand its activities to increase health care providers' awareness of rare diseases and conditions. 4. Directing the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, or another appropriate entity, to update the 2010 report on Rare Diseases and Orphan Products: Accelerating Research and Development.

Committee Categories

Business and Industry, Health and Social Services

Sponsors (77)

André Carson (D)* Cindy Axne (D),  Nanette Barragán (D),  Karen Bass (D),  Joyce Beatty (D),  Lisa Blunt Rochester (D),  Susan Brooks (R),  Julia Brownley (D),  Larry Bucshon (R),  G. Butterfield (D),  Tony Cárdenas (D),  Sean Casten (D),  Judy Chu (D),  Yvette Clarke (D),  Lou Correa (D),  Angie Craig (D),  Danny Davis (D),  Peter DeFazio (D),  Theodore Deutch (D),  Lloyd Doggett (D),  Eliot Engel (D),  Abby Finkenauer (D),  Brian Fitzpatrick (R),  John Garamendi (D),  Raúl Grijalva (D),  Josh Harder (D),  Alcee Hastings (D),  Kendra Horn (D),  Richard Hudson (R),  Sheila Jackson-Lee (D),  Eddie Johnson (D),  Dave Joyce (R),  Robin Kelly (D),  Joseph Kennedy (D),  Ro Khanna (D),  Peter King (R),  Ann Kuster (D),  Al Lawson (D),  Barbara Lee (D),  John Lewis (D),  Ben Ray Luján (D),  Stephen Lynch (D),  Tom Malinowski (D),  Carolyn Maloney (D),  Sean Maloney (D),  Roger Marshall (R),  Doris Matsui (D),  Lucy McBath (D),  Jim McGovern (D),  Jerry McNerney (D),  Gregory Meeks (D),  Gwen Moore (D),  Stephanie Murphy (D),  Jerry Nadler (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Tom O'Halleran (D),  Donald Payne (D),  Mark Pocan (D),  Ayanna Pressley (D),  David Price (D),  Jamie Raskin (D),  Harley Rouda (D),  Lucille Roybal-Allard (D),  Dutch Ruppersberger (D),  Bobby Rush (D),  John Rutherford (R),  Jan Schakowsky (D),  Terri Sewell (D),  Mikie Sherrill (D),  Albio Sires (D),  Darren Soto (D),  Tom Suozzi (D),  Bennie Thompson (D),  Marc Veasey (D),  Peter Visclosky (D),  Jackie Walorski (R),  Peter Welch (D), 

Last Action

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (on 09/09/2019)

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