The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Monday night passed by voice vote an amended version of the PEPFAR Stewardship and Oversight Act, introduced last week by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the committee’s ranking member, the Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks” blog reports. The amended version included, among other things, additional reporting requirements on TB/HIV co-infection and health workforce training, according to the blog. “The committee’s action Monday night coincided with the official end date of the Lantos Hyde Act, which reauthorized [PEPFAR] for five years in 2008,” the blog notes. In the House, Reps. Ed Royce (R-Calif.) and Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), joined by Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), “last week introduced an identical bill to the one originally introduced in the Senate committee,” the blog adds (Barton, 10/1).