S1085-119

Introduced

To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement a pandemic preparedness and response program using artificial intelligence.

119th Congress Introduced Mar 14, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

The bill adds or tightens a compliance mandate provision: 2. Findings; sense of Congress Congress finds as follows: The COVID–19 pandemic revealed the need to better organize pathogen defense of the people of the United States, expands a appropriation, compliance mandate provision: 3. Establishment of MedShield program, and expands a appropriation, reporting req, compliance mandate provision: 4. Reporting. It relies on compliance mandates, appropriations, reporting requirements, and definition changes. The main policy areas are Healthcare.

Who Benefits and How

The available clause analysis does not identify a specific beneficiary group.

Who Bears the Burden and How

No clear private burden is identified from the available clause analysis; implementing agencies may still take on administrative work.

Key Provisions

  • Adds or tightens a compliance mandate provision: 2. Findings; sense of Congress Congress finds as follows: The COVID–19 pandemic revealed the need to better organize pathogen defense of the people of the United States....
  • Expands a appropriation, compliance mandate provision: 3. Establishment of MedShield program.
  • Expands a appropriation, reporting req, compliance mandate provision: 4. Reporting.
  • Adds or tightens a reporting req, definition change provision: 5.
  • Expands a appropriation provision: 6. Authorization of appropriations.

Evidence Chain:

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At a Glance

What This Bill Does

The bill adds or tightens a compliance mandate provision: 2. Findings; sense of Congress Congress finds as follows: The COVID–19 pandemic revealed the need to better organize pathogen defense of the people of the United States, expands a appropriation, compliance mandate provision: 3. Establishment of MedShield program, and expands a appropriation, reporting req, compliance mandate provision: 4. Reporting.

Key Policy Areas

Healthcare

Primary Purpose

The bill adds or tightens a compliance mandate provision: 2. Findings; sense of Congress Congress finds as follows: The COVID–19 pandemic revealed the need to better organize pathogen defense of the people of the United States, expands a appropriation, compliance mandate provision: 3. Establishment of MedShield program, and expands a appropriation, reporting req, compliance mandate provision: 4. Reporting.

Policy Domains

Healthcare

Legislative Progress

Introduced
Introduced Committee Passed
Mar 14, 2025

Mr. Rounds (for himself and Mr. Heinrich) introduced the following …

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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Healthcare
Actor Mappings
"the_commission"
→ The commission identified in the operative section
"secretary_of_health_and_human_services"
→ Secretary of Health and Human Services

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence" §idf92b3c72e1764d27aee74f434cab8042

such commission established under section 1051 of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (132 Stat. 1962

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