# 116-hr-7104: To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements to expand and enhance manufacturing capacity of vaccines and vaccine candidates to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.

116-hr-7104, To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements to expand and enhance manufacturing capacity of vaccines and vaccine candidates to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19., is a 116th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Kuster, Ann M. [D-NH-2] (D-NH); status Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 116-hr-7104
- Congress: 116
- Title: To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements to expand and enhance manufacturing capacity of vaccines and vaccine candidates to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.
- Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- Introduced: 2020-06-04
- Sponsor: Rep. Kuster, Ann M. [D-NH-2] (D-NH)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Health
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

This bill directs the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to award grants and enter into other transactions to increase the manufacturing of vaccines that prevent COVID-19.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. Jeffries, Hakeem S. [D-NY-8] (D-NY), 2020-06-04T00:00:00.000Z

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## Sources
- [116-hr-7104 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7104)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-7104 (as of 2025-11-18).