HR 8073 116th Congress House Health Blood and blood diseases Cardiovascular and respiratory health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Correctional facilities and imprisonment Department of Health and Human Services Educational facilities and institutions Emergency medical services and trauma care Food industry and services Government information and archives Health information and medical records Health programs administration and funding Health technology, devices, supplies Homelessness and emergency shelter Hospital care Indian social and development programs Infectious and parasitic diseases Intergovernmental relations Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care Meat

Improving COVID–19 Data Transparency Act

Introduced: August 21, 2020 Introduced by: Beyer, Donald S. Democratic · Virginia See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 2 steps

Introduced

In committee

Reported out

Passed House

Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Aug 21, 2020

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Aug 21, 2020

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Improving COVID-19 Data Transparency Act

This bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take certain actions with respect to reporting and modeling COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) data. It also requires health information technology, as a condition of certification by HHS, to automatically generate and transmit reports of possible reportable conditions from electronic health records to public health agencies.

The CDC must standardize the reporting of COVID-19 data by governmental health departments, including information related to contact tracing and surveillance, hospital admissions and outcomes, outbreaks, and community compliance with preventive measures. The CDC must also post and periodically update this information on its website.

In addition, the CDC must provide sufficient information about federal COVID-19 models to allow them to be reproduced, and HHS must enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to study issues related to COVID-19 modeling, including the data sources used in the models.

The CDC must also deliver a weekly televised presentation that is open to the media on its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication that reports surveillance statistics and other public health information and recommendations.

What's happening now August 21, 2020

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Committees of jurisdiction 1