Healthcare spending bill draft includes many BIO requests

The House Appropriations Committee is set to mark up today the fiscal year 2023 spending bill for Health and Human Services (HHS), which would allocate $242.1 billion to improve public health infrastructure, including many of BIO’s requests.

Here are a few proposals BIO requested, which made it in the draft legislation:

• $845 million ($100 million above FY22 enacted level) for Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)
• $855 million ($10 million above FY22) for the Strategic National Stockpile
• $800 million ($20 million above FY22) for Project BioShield
• $353.2 million ($100 million above FY22) for FY23-FY25 for CDC’s Global Health Protection
• $382 million ($117 million above FY22) for pandemic influenza
• $35 million ($15 million above FY22) for the CDC’s Advanced Molecular Detection program
• Report language (page 235) regarding antimicrobial resistance requesting a “professional judgement budget estimate to support a comprehensive, long-term program for the development and procurement of novel antibiotics.”

Click here to read the full list of BIO’s requests for the year.