About the bill
Are Texas and other fast-growing states getting shortchanged on vaccines based on outdated population numbers?
Context
The federal government allocates COVID-19 vaccines to the states using a pro rata formula, based on each state’s adult population as of 2018. By using numbers from three years ago, though, the fastest-growing states since then are likely getting shortchanged.
A Houston Chronicle analysis in mid-March, comparing each state’s population of adults older than 18 and comparing that to the cumulative number of doses allocated to all 50 states and Washington, D.C., estimated Texas had been shortchanged about 83,000 doses at that time. (Although Imelda Garcia, the head of Texas’s Expert Vaccine Allocation Panel, claimed the shortchange at the time was 2 million.)
A bipartisan coalition of Congress members from Texas wrote to …
Sponsor and status
117th Congress (2021–2023)
This bill was introduced on March 1, 2021, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote.
Although this bill was not enacted, its provisions could have become law by being included in another bill. It is common for legislative text to be introduced concurrently in multiple bills (called companion bills), re-introduced in subsequent sessions of Congress in new bills, or added to larger bills (sometimes called omnibus bills).
4 Cosponsors (4 Republicans)
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History
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Mar 1, 2021
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Introduced
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Jun 15, 2021
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Considered by Health
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H.R. 1452 (117th) was a bill in the United States Congress.
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Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 1452. This is the one from the 117th Congress.
This bill was introduced in the 117th Congress, which met from Jan 3, 2021 to Jan 3, 2023. Legislation not passed by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.
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