I will support legislation requiring the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the National Biodefense Science Board to establish a National Emergency Biodefense Network using private blockchain technology to monitor Strategic National Stockpile and state biodefense supplies.

H.R. 6607 will require the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the National Biodefense Science Board to establish the National Emergency Biodefense Network (“the Network”) that will use private blockchain technology to monitor the availability of supplies in the SNS and in each state, ensuring both have adequate inventories.

Lynch introduced legislation that would create a blockchain-based National Emergency Biodefense Network to track Strategic National Stockpile and state supplies.

Rep. Lynch Introduces Bill To Enhance Transparency Of Supplies In Strategic National Stockpile | Press Releases | Congressman Stephen Lynch
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Congressman Stephen F. Lynch was first sworn in to the United States Congress in October 2001. In the 119th Congress, Congressman Lynch is a member of the Financial Services Committee, where he serves as Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Artificial Intelligence.

Confirms Lynch remained in federal office through the 119th Congress and had a role relevant to digital assets, but this does not show action on the specific biodefense blockchain promise.

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About | Congressman Stephen Lynch
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As a Member of Congress, I am actively involved in sponsoring and drafting legislation about issues that are important to you. Legislation I’m Sponsoring. Legislation I’m Co-Sponsoring.

Lynch’s official site points to Congress.gov sponsored and cosponsored legislation records; searches did not identify Lynch-sponsored or cosponsored legislation matching the promised National Emergency Biodefense Network/private blockchain proposal.

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Sponsored Legislation | Congressman Stephen Lynch
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Latest Action: 06/24/2019 Became Public Law No: 116-22. This bill has the status Became Law. This bill reauthorizes, revises, and establishes several programs and entities relating to public health emergency preparedness and response.

A major biodefense/preparedness law became law, but it was not the promised private-blockchain National Emergency Biodefense Network legislation and does not establish that Lynch individually delivered the promise.

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S.1379 - Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019 | Congress.gov
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No matching text found for "blockchain". No matching text found for "National Emergency Biodefense Network". No matching text found for "National Biodefense Science Board".

The enacted 2019 preparedness law did not contain the key promised terms: blockchain, National Emergency Biodefense Network, or National Biodefense Science Board involvement in such a network.

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Text - S.1379 - Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019 | Congress.gov
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The Secretary... shall maintain a stockpile or stockpiles of drugs, vaccines and other biological products, medical devices, and other supplies... The Secretary, in managing the stockpile... shall... ensure that adequate procedures are followed... for inventory management and accounting... [and] devise plans for effective and timely supply-chain management of the stockpile.

Current SNS law requires inventory/accounting and supply-chain management, which overlaps with the monitoring goal, but it does not require a private blockchain National Emergency Biodefense Network.

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42 U.S. Code § 247d-6b - Strategic National Stockpile and security countermeasure procurements
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The Secretary shall establish the National Biodefense Science Board... to provide expert advice and guidance to the Secretary on scientific, technical and other matters... The Board shall... advise the Secretary... provide recommendations and findings for expanded, intensified, and coordinated biodefense research and development activities.

Existing law makes the National Biodefense Science Board advisory; it does not require the Board and HHS Secretary to establish a private blockchain network for stockpile and state supply monitoring.

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42 U.S. Code § 247d-7g - National Biodefense Science Board and working groups
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Today President Joe Biden will sign National Security Memorandum-15 (NSM-15) and launched the National Biodefense Strategy and Implementation Plan... It outlines a set of bold goals... across 20 Federal Agencies to detect, prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from biological incidents.

The executive branch launched a national biodefense strategy, but this was not the promised federal legislation and did not establish a private blockchain network for the Strategic National Stockpile and state biodefense supplies.

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FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Releases Strategy to Strengthen Health Security and Prepare for Biothreats | The White House
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