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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1794
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish an Abraham
Accords Office within Food and Drug Administration, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH3, 2025
Mrs. H
ARSHBARGER (for herself, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. WEBERof Texas, Mr.
P
ETERS, Mr. HARRISof Maryland, and Mr. LEVIN) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce
A BILL
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to
establish an Abraham Accords Office within Food and
Drug Administration, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘United States-Abra-4
ham Accords Cooperation and Security Act of 2025’’. 5
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SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF ABRAHAM ACCORDS OFFICE 1
WITHIN FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION. 2
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Chapter X of the Federal Food, 3
Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 391 et seq.) is amend-4
ed by adding at the end the following: 5
‘‘SEC. 1015. ABRAHAM ACCORDS OFFICE. 6
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Secretary, acting through 7
the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, shall establish with-8
in the Food and Drug Administration an office, to be 9
known as the Abraham Accords Office, to be headed by 10
a director. 11
‘‘(b) O
FFICE.—Not later than 2 years after the date 12
of enactment of this section, the Secretary shall— 13
‘‘(1) in consultation with the governments of 14
Abraham Accords countries, as well as appropriate 15
United States Government diplomatic and security 16
personnel— 17
‘‘(A) select the location of the Abraham 18
Accords Office in an Abraham Accords country; 19
and 20
‘‘(B) establish such office; and 21
‘‘(2) assign to such office such personnel of the 22
Food and Drug Administration as the Secretary de-23
termines necessary to carry out the functions of 24
such office. 25
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‘‘(c) DUTIES.—The Secretary, acting through the Di-1
rector of the Abraham Accords Office, shall— 2
‘‘(1) after the Abraham Accords Office is estab-3
lished— 4
‘‘(A) as part of the Food and Drug Admin-5
istration’s work to strengthen the international 6
oversight of regulated commodities, provide 7
technical assistance to regulatory partners in 8
Abraham Accords countries on strengthening 9
regulatory oversight and converging regulatory 10
requirements for the oversight of regulated 11
products, including good manufacturing prac-12
tices and other issues relevant to manufacturing 13
medical products that are regulated by the 14
Food and Drug Administration; and 15
‘‘(B) facilitate interactions between the 16
Food and Drug Administration and interested 17
parties in Abraham Accords countries, including 18
by sharing relevant information regarding 19
United States regulatory pathways with such 20
parties, and facilitate feedback on the research, 21
development, and manufacturing of products 22
regulated in accordance with this Act; and 23
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‘‘(2) carry out other functions and activities as 1
the Secretary determines to be necessary to carry 2
out this section. 3
‘‘(d) A
BRAHAMACCORDSCOUNTRYDEFINED.—In 4
this section, the term ‘Abraham Accords country’ means 5
a country identified by the Department of State as having 6
signed the Abraham Accords Declaration. 7
‘‘(e) N
ATIONALSECURITY.—Nothing in this section 8
shall be construed to require any action inconsistent with 9
a national security recommendation provided by the Fed-10
eral Government.’’. 11
(b) R
EPORT TOCONGRESS.— 12
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 3 years after 13
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 14
Health and Human Services shall submit to the 15
Congress a report on the Abraham Accords Office, 16
including— 17
(A) an evaluation of how the Office has ad-18
vanced progress toward conformance with Food 19
and Drug Administration regulatory require-20
ments by manufacturers in the Abraham Ac-21
cords countries; 22
(B) a numerical count of parties that the 23
Office has helped facilitate interactions or feed-24
back pursuant to section 1015(c)(1)(B) of the 25
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Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (as 1
added by subsection (a)); 2
(C) a summary of technical assistance pro-3
vided to regulatory partners in Abraham Ac-4
cords countries pursuant to subparagraph (A) 5
of such section 1015(c)(1); and 6
(D) recommendations for increasing and 7
improving coordination between the Food and 8
Drug Administration and entities in Abraham 9
Accords countries. 10
(2) A
BRAHAM ACCORDS COUNTRY DEFINED .— 11
In this subsection, the term ‘‘Abraham Accords 12
country’’ has the meaning given such term in section 13
1015(d) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 14
Act (as added by subsection (a)). 15
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