Sec. 201. Public health emergencies
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Section 319 of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 247d ) is amended— in subsection (b)— in paragraph (1)— in the first sentence, by inserting before the period the following: , or if the Secretary determines there is the significant potential for a public health emergency, to allow the Secretary to rapidly respond to the immediate needs resulting from such public health emergency or potential public health emergency ; and by inserting after the first sentence the following: The Secretary shall plan for the expedited distribution of amounts in the Fund to appropriate agencies and entities. ; by redesignating paragraph
(2)as paragraph (3); by inserting after paragraph
(1)the following: The Secretary may use amounts in the Fund established under paragraph (1)— to facilitate coordination between and among Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial entities and public and private health care entities that the Secretary determines may be affected by a public health emergency or potential public health emergency referred to in paragraph
(1)(including communication of such entities with relevant international entities, as applicable); to make grants, provide for awards, enter into contracts, and conduct supportive investigations pertaining to such a public health emergency or potential public health emergency, including further supporting programs under sections 319C–1 and 319C–2; to facilitate and accelerate, as applicable, advanced research and development of security countermeasures (as defined in section 319F–2), qualified countermeasures (as defined in section 319F–1), or qualified pandemic or epidemic products (as defined in section 319F–3), that are applicable to such a public health emergency or potential public health emergency; to strengthen biosurveillance capabilities and laboratory capacity to identify, collect, and analyze information regarding such a public health emergency or potential public health emergency, including the systems under section 319D; to support initial emergency operations and assets related to preparation and deployment of intermittent disaster-response personnel under section 2812, and the Medical Reserve Corps under section 2813; and to carry out other activities, as the Secretary determines applicable and appropriate. ; and by inserting after paragraph (3), as so redesignated, the following: Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2018, the Secretary, in coordination with the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, shall conduct a review of the Fund under this subsection, and provide recommendations to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives on policies to improve such Fund for the uses described in paragraph (2). The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a review of the Fund under this subsection, including the uses and the resources available in the Fund. Not later than 4 years after the date of enactment of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2018, the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate a report on such review, including recommendations related to such review. ; and in subsection (c), by striking section. and inserting section or funds otherwise provided for emergency response. . Section 319(e)(8) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 247d(e)(8) ) is amended by striking 2018 and inserting 2023 .
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