State Strategic Stockpile Act of 2026

This bill would extend a federal pilot program that gives awards to states to build and maintain stockpiles of medical products for emergencies, moving its deadlines from 2024 and 2025 to 2028 and 2029. It would allow the program to support regional efforts, not only individual state efforts. States receiving awards would have to coordinate with local health care, health, and emergency management officials and look for ways to share best practices with other states. The bill would authorize such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2027 through 2031, add regional stockpiling to a required Government Accountability Office report, and remove the words "as appropriate" from a requirement that a federal medical countermeasures group consult state, local, Tribal, and territorial public health officials.

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Sponsors

• Margaret Wood Hassan Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors