Bill > HR5142

This bill, the Vaccine Injury Compensation Modernization Act of 2023, aims to make updates to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). Key provisions include: establishing a minimum of 10 special masters to adjudicate VICP cases, increasing the compensation amounts for vaccine-related deaths and pain/suffering, extending the statute of limitations to file VICP claims from 36 months to 5 years, adding COVID-19 vaccines to the VICP Vaccine Injury Table, and requiring the transfer of pending COVID-19 vaccine injury claims from the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program to the VICP. The bill also requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit budgets outlining the resource needs for the VICP and Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program for fiscal years 2024-2028.