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Alert: Senate Releases 2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill/ Update PASSED

Below Article Update 12/23/2022: Following Senate passage by a 68-29 vote on Thursday, Dec. 22, the House passed an omnibus appropriations bill by a 221-205-1 vote on Friday, Dec. 23.  The President is expected to sign the measure.  To allow more time for full enactment of the omnibus, Congress passed a third continuing resolution for FY 2023 through Dec. 30, which the President signed on Friday, Dec. 23. 

Alert: Senate Releases 2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill:  The Senate has just released the 2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill.2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill The Explanatory Statement includes, under Emerging & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, $26M for Lyme, as well as much language on Lyme/VBD. It also incorporates activities in HR117-403 which includes Lyme language LDA provided to Congress.

The passage of an Omnibus through the end of FY23 is uncertain at this time.


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Division H-departments of labor, health and human services, and education, and related agencies appropriations act, 2023.