National MS Disease Registry Act
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National MS Disease Registry Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, to: (1) develop a system to collect data on multiple sclerosis (MS); and (2) establish a national surveillance system for the collection and storage of such data, including a population-based registry of U.S. cases of MS.
Requires the Secretary to establish the Advisory Committee on the MS National Surveillance System.
Allows the Secretary to award grants to, and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with, public or private nonprofit entities for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on MS.
Requires the Secretary to: (1) identify, build upon, expand, and coordinate existing data and surveillance systems, surveys, registries, and other federal public health and environmental infrastructure wherever possible; and (2) provide for research access to MS data.
Requires the Secretary to ensure that epidemiological and other types of information collected are made available to agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the Department of Defense (DOD).
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5874: National MS Disease Registry Act. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-5874/
"H.R. 5874: National MS Disease Registry Act." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-5874/.
H.R. 5874, 110th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-5874/.
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