Congress·In Committee·H.R. 4473

BIRD Health Act of 2025

Health Technology: U.S.-Israel Research Partnership

Jul 16, 2025·View on Congress.gov·Read full text

Next up: A house committeeNo action in 11 months

The BIRD Health Act of 2025 is currently in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Nothing has happened with this bill since July 2025, which means it has been stalled for 11 months. The committee must take action before the bill can move forward, but most bills like this never receive a vote.

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The bill has support from both parties and builds on a successful existing partnership model, but many bills struggle to get a full vote in a busy Congress.

Key Points

This bill creates the BIRD Health Program to help the United States and Israel work together on new medical technologies. It focuses on developing things like new medicines, medical devices, and artificial intelligence for healthcare.
The program would provide $10 million in funding every year from 2026 through 2032. These funds will support joint projects between American and Israeli companies, universities, and research groups.
Key goals include improving telemedicine, creating new vaccines, and making it easier to manufacture biological products. It also aims to help small startup companies bring their health inventions to the market faster.
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Israeli Ministry of Health will run the program together. They will pick projects based on how innovative they are and how much they could help patients in both countries.

Impact Analysis

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Milestones

2 milestones2 actions

Jul 16, 2025House

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Jul 16, 2025

Introduced in House

The bill was officially filed and given a number. It now enters the legislative queue.

No votes, news coverage, or related bills recorded for this bill yet.

Source Information

Document Type

Congressional Bill

Official Title

BIRD Health Act of 2025

Bill NumberHR 4473

Congress119th Congress

ChamberHouse of Representatives

Latest ActionReferred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Data Sources

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(8)

D: 4R: 4

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