S.Amdt. 2819

SA 2819. Mr. JOHNSON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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 H of title X, insert the following:

SEC. 10__. STUDY ON PHARMACEUTICAL INGREDIENTS.

The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall seek to
enter into an agreement with the RAND Corporation under which
the RAND Corporation--
(1) studies--
(A) the extent to which drug manufacturers use foreign
sources for precursor chemicals and active pharmaceutical
ingredients for the manufacture of drugs for the United
States market; and
(B) any statutory, regulatory, or other barriers to
domestic production of such chemicals and ingredients; and
(2) submits a report on such study to the Secretary of
Health and Human Services.
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