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S 1615 117th Congress Senate Health Administrative law and regulatory procedures Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Department of Health and Human Services Health promotion and preventive care Infectious and parasitic diseases

Limiting CDC to Disease Control Act

Introduced: May 13, 2021 Introduced by: Paul, Rand Republican · Kentucky See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
May 13, 2021
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Limiting CDC to Disease Control Act

This bill modifies and limits the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue regulations to control communicable diseases.

Current law authorizes HHS to make and enforce regulations to prevent the introduction or spread of communicable diseases. In particular, current law provides that HHS may make and enforce regulations addressing (1) isolation and quarantine of infected individuals (subject to certain restrictions); and (2) inspection, fumigation, disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, destruction of infected animals or articles, and other measures that the department determines may be necessary. HHS has delegated this authority to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

This bill eliminates the authority of the CDC to make and enforce regulations that provide for other measures it determines may be necessary to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, thereby limiting the scope of its regulations to the other specific purposes set out in current law.

What's happening now May 13, 2021

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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