Ryan White Update

Dear Ryan White Stakeholders:

I wanted to pass along some information regarding the Ryan White Reauthorization. As of last night, the Senate reported out the manager’s amendment passed out of the HELP Committee on May 17th, with no changes (for your convenience the reported version is attached). Please recognize that it is not the agreed upon, final language because, as you are aware, in dealing with the outstanding formula issues, those go well beyond “technical and conforming” changes.

Here’s our current thinking regarding process: The House Energy and Commerce Committee plans to have a mark up on the latest and greatest version of the bill (probably only going through the full committee) the second week in September. Soon thereafter, the Senate will take the House language on the Senate bill as a manager’s substitute and move the bill through the Senate floor. After that, the House will act on the Senate bill.

As for substance: We are working diligently to finalize the actual bill language. Because we understand the relevance of the GAO data runs in your analysis of the language, we will get the GAO information on the data runs to you as soon as possible. We are asking that, if you chose to provide comments on the latest bill language, especially if they revolve around the funding formulas, that you work to build a consensus among diverging views and situations (e.g., old versus new epidemic, names-based versus code-based, etc.) because that is the easiest way for us to be able to consider those comments.

Thanks again for all of your hard work. We look forward to continuing to work with you in the days ahead.

Lesley Stewart
U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
Senator Michael B. Enzi – Chairman
Phone: 202-224-0623
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