Sec. 245. Medical equipment and supplies grant program
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The Secretary of Commerce shall establish a program under which the Secretary shall award grants to manufacturers of medical equipment, medical devices, and medical supplies that are either headquartered in the United States or in an Americas partner country, or that are determined by the Secretary to have a significant presence in an Americas partner country, to assist the continued expansion of, and promote job growth within, this key economic sector for the Hemisphere. A medical equipment, medical device, or medical supply manufacturer in receipt of a grant awarded under this section shall use the amounts of that grant for new facilities or equipment, to retool old equipment, or to create or expand operations for medical equipment, medical device, or medical supply production in the United States or in an Americas partner country.
In carrying out this section, the Secretary— shall permit advances of grant amounts to manufacturers— prior to making qualifying expenditures; or as qualifying expenditures are made; and shall require a manufacturer to comply with safety, labor, health, and environmental standards specified by the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology; and may scale the amount of a grant depending on incremental employment achieved by the manufacturer.
In this section, the terms medical equipment, medical devices, and medical supplies means— for goods manufactured in Americas partner countries, goods within one of the following statistical reporting numbers utilized in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States: 9018.90.8000, classified as other instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental, or veterinary sciences ; 9018.39.0040, classified as bougies, drains, and sondes, and parts and accessories ; 9018.19.9560, classified as parts and accessories for electro-diagnostic apparatus, for use in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary science ; 9018.90.6000, classified as electro-surgical instruments and appliances and parts and accessories ; 9018.90.7580, classified as electro-medical instruments and appliances and parts and accessories ; 9021.39.0000, classified as other artificial parts of the body and parts and accessories ; 9018.39.0050, classified as cannulae and the like and parts and accessories) ; or any other statistical reporting number contained within the Harmonized Tariff Schedule ( 19 U.S.C. 1202 ) that refers to a type of medical equipment, medical device, or medical supply that is produced within an Americas partner country and helps secure America’s medical supply chain, as determined by the Secretary; and for goods manufactured in the United States, goods within each of the Schedule B export classifications codes maintained by the United States Census Bureau that are the equivalent of the products described in paragraph (1), as determined by the Secretary.
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Commerce $105,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2025 through 2029 to carry out the program under this section. Amounts authorized to be appropriated under this subsection are authorized to be obligated and expended in both the United States and in Americas partner countries.
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