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H.R.1274
Sponsor: Rep Pelosi, Nancy (introduced 3/24/1999)
Latest Major Action: 4/6/1999 Referred to House subcommittee
Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit for medical research related to developing vaccines against widespread diseases.
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TITLE(S):  (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)
STATUS: (color indicates Senate actions)
3/24/1999:
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
3/24/1999:
Referred to House Ways and Means
3/24/1999:
Referred to House Commerce
4/6/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

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COSPONSORS(39), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Rep Berkley, Shelley - 11/5/1999 Rep Bonior, David E. - 5/13/1999
Rep Christensen, Donna MC - 5/13/1999 Rep Clayton, Eva M. - 9/28/1999
Rep Cummings, Elijah E. - 11/17/1999 Rep Dixon, Julian C. - 5/13/1999
Rep Doyle, Michael F. - 9/28/1999 Rep English, Phil - 5/13/1999
Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 3/24/1999 Rep Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. - 10/4/1999
Rep Foley, Mark - 10/5/1999 Rep Frost, Martin - 5/13/1999
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 9/28/1999 Rep Inslee, Jay - 8/2/1999
Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 10/14/1999 Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila - 10/7/1999
Rep Jefferson, William J. - 5/13/1999 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 3/24/1999
Rep Lantos, Tom - 5/13/1999 Rep Lee, Barbara - 9/21/1999
Rep Lewis, John - 3/24/1999 Rep Lofgren, Zoe - 8/2/1999
Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 11/18/1999 Rep Matsui, Robert T. - 3/24/1999
Rep McDermott, Jim - 3/24/1999 Rep McGovern, James P. - 10/7/1999
Rep McNulty, Michael R. - 3/24/1999 Rep Meeks, Gregory W. - 10/4/1999
Rep Morella, Constance A. - 9/21/1999 Rep Payne, Donald M. - 11/2/1999
Rep Rahall, Nick J., II - 9/21/1999 Rep Rangel, Charles B. - 3/24/1999
Rep Romero-Barcelo, Carlos A. - 9/28/1999 Rep Smith, Christopher H. - 9/21/1999
Rep Tauscher, Ellen O. - 8/2/1999 Rep Thurman, Karen L. - 5/13/1999
Rep Weiner, Anthony D. - 5/13/1999 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 3/24/1999
Rep Wynn, Albert Russell - 5/13/1999


SUMMARY AS OF:
3/24/1999--Introduced.

Lifesaving Vaccine Technology Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish an income tax credit for 30 percent of the qualified expenses (excluding amounts funded by any grant, contract, or otherwise by another person or any governmental entity) for medical research related to developing vaccines against widespread diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, or any infectious disease (of a single etiology) which, according to the World Health Organization, causes over one million human deaths annually.

States that any qualified vaccine research expenses for a taxable year to which an election under this Act applies shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining the credit allowable for increasing research expenditures.

Denies such a credit with respect to any vaccine research (other than human clinical testing) conducted outside the United States.

States that the vaccine research credit shall include an amount equal to 20 percent of the amount paid by the taxpayer to acquire qualified research stock in a corporation if the corporation waives its own right to the credit and meets other specified criteria.

Declares that it is the sense of Congress that if the vaccine research credit is allowed to any corporation or shareholder of a corporation, the corporation should certify to the Secretary of the Treasury that, within one year after that vaccine is first licensed, the corporation will establish a good faith plan utilizing technology transfer, differential pricing, in-country production, or other mechanisms to maximize international access to high quality and affordable vaccines.

Directs the Institute of Medicine to study and report to Congress on the effectiveness of the vaccine research credit in stimulating vaccine research.

Expresses the sense of Congress that the President and Federal agencies (including the Departments of State, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury) should work together in vigorous support of the creation and funding of a multi-lateral, international effort, such as a vaccine purchase fund, to accelerate the introduction of vaccines to which the vaccine research credit applies and of other priority vaccines into the poorest countries in the world.

Expresses the sense of Congress that flexible or differential pricing for vaccines, providing lowered prices for the poorest countries, is one of several valid strategies to accelerate the introduction of vaccines in developing countries.