H.R. 6600 · 116th Congress
Point-of-Care Testing Prize Competitions Act of 2020
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Donald Beyer
- Introduced
- 2020-04-23
- Latest action
- 2020-04-23 · Introduced in House
Summary
Point-of-Care Testing Prize Competitions Act of 2020
This bill requires the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in consultation with the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST), to conduct a prize competition for institutions of higher education in order to incentivize research on point-of-care testing that is capable of detecting current or past infection with COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) and meets other specified criteria. The NIST must assist the NIH with the development of certain validation protocols and standards for the testing.