Improving Global Health Outcomes for Mothers and Infants: Lead efforts to pass the End Tuberculosis Now Act and support increased funding for child malnutrition, maternal health, and combating malaria and AIDS.
Lead efforts to pass the End Tuberculosis Now Act and support increased funding for child malnutrition, maternal health, malaria, and AIDS programs.
Occurrences
Evidence
Congress.gov shows H.R. 1776, the End Tuberculosis Now Act of 2023, was introduced on March 24, 2023 with Rep. Salazar as an original cosponsor; the bill was later ordered reported by voice vote in House Foreign Affairs on July 26, 2023, but the tracker still shows it as introduced rather than enacted.
Assessments
Salazar materially supported the End Tuberculosis Now Act during her current House service as an original cosponsor of H.R. 1776 in the 118th Congress, and the bill advanced through House Foreign Affairs by voice vote. However, the bill was not enacted and remained at the introduced/committee stage, so the promised passage of the Act was not delivered. The available evidence also does not establish that the broader increased funding for child malnutrition, maternal health, malaria, and AIDS programs was enacted because of her efforts. This merits partial credit for concrete same-term legislative effort, not full delivery.