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Congress – Corona virus timeline

Another Congress related Coronavirus timeline:

May 15 2019

House introduces the H&HS appropriations bill HR 2740

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2740/text

June 19 2019

House vote (226-203) on H&HS appropriations and passed to the Senate

Sept 18 2019

Senate vote 51-44

Sept 19 2019

President Trump signs EO 13887 that allowed CDC to redirect available funds toward flu season research and vaccination.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/09/24/2019-20804/modernizing-influenza-vaccines-in-the-united-states-to-promote-national-security-and-public-health

Oct 1 2019

Start of the fiscal year and no appropriations bill passed by Congress for H&HS and the CDC

Oct 28-Nov 1 2019

House and Senate combine overdue appropriations bills into HR 1865

note: HR 1865 was not an appropriations bill, it was originally titled

"National Law Enforcement Museum Commemorative Coin Act"

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1865/summary/55

Dec 17-19 2019

House and Senate finally agree to amends and pass HR 1865, retitled by amendment

"Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020"

Dec 20 2019

President Trump signs the overdue appropriations bill into law

note: HR 1865 appropriation Reduced funding from FY 2019 and the introduced bill for

immunization and respiratory diseases $44,750,000

public health preparedness and response $615,000,000

Mar 4-6 2020

Congress introduces, passes and the President signs H.R.6074 - Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 ($8.3 billion emergency appropriations in 2 days)

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6074/text

note: delays by Congress to fulfill their responsibility to appropriate funds, meant that CDC was restricted on what work it could perform and relied on the Executive Order to redirect available funding for almost 3 months.