United StatesSenate Bill 1607S 1607

INSPECT Act

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Last progress May 6, 2025 (7 months ago)

Introduced on May 6, 2025 by Eric Stephen Schmitt

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May 6, 2025 (7 months ago)

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

This bill creates new Inspector General positions at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The President must appoint one person for each of these three roles within one year of the bill becoming law . It also says no extra money will be added for this; the work must be paid for using funds already set aside for the Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services .

It updates federal law to list NIH, CDC, and FDA as agencies that have their own Inspector General positions, alongside other agencies already named in the law .

Key point	What it means
Who is affected	NIH, CDC, and FDA will each have an Inspector General position
What changes	Federal law is amended to add these positions and name the appointing officials
When	Appointments must happen within one year after the bill becomes law
Funding	No new money; uses existing HHS Inspector General funds

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