Legislation to reauthorize the Ryan White Act, which regulates the primary federal assistance program for low-income AIDS and HIV patients, is headed for President Obama’s desk.

The House on Wednesday cleared the bill by 408-9. The Senate had passed it two days ago by voice vote.

The measure would reauthorize through fiscal 2013 the law named after a young Indiana hemophiliac who became an activist in the fight against AIDS in the 1980s when he was expelled from school after contracting the disease from contaminated blood. He died in 1990 at age 18.

The bill would require states to adopt name-based reporting for patients by 2012. For privacy reasons, some states assign AIDS patients a code or number to use for the purpose of federal reporting requirements. However, other communicable diseases, such as tuberculosis, require name-based reporting.

The measure also would set a national testing goal of 5 million tests per year.