S.Amdt. 1005

SA 1005. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2018 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year,
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:

SEC. __. AFFORDABLE ZIKA VACCINE.

The Secretary of Health and Human Services may approve an
application under section 351(a) of the Public Health Service
Act (42 U.S.C. 262(a)) for a vaccine against the Zika virus
developed in whole or in part by the Walter Reed Army
Institute for Research and the Department of the Army only if
the application meets the criteria for approval pursuant to
such section and the sponsor--
(1) is the Walter Reed Army Institute for Research or the
Department of the Army; or
(2) has entered into a licensing agreement with the
Secretary of Defense to provide for the manufacturing and
introduction into interstate commerce of such vaccine and
such agreement provides--
(A) that the manufacturing and marketing of such vaccine is
non-exclusive; or
(B) for the reasonable pricing of such vaccine.
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