American Cures Act (S. 4494)

American Cures Act

This bill permanently funds several federal agencies and programs that perform biomedical research.

The bill provides specified funding for

• the National Institutes of Health,
• the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
• the Department of Defense health program, and
• the Department of Veterans Affairs medical and prosthetics research program.

The bill exempts the funding from sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.

It also exempts the budgetary effects of the funding from the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010 and the Senate PAYGO rule.