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Promoting Public Health Information Act

Introduced: March 2, 2022 Introduced by: Murphy, Christopher Democratic · Connecticut See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Mar 2, 2022
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Promoting Public Health Information Act

This bill sets out programs and activities to support the communication and dissemination of evidence-based public health information, with a particular focus on communication during public health emergencies.

Specifically, it temporarily establishes an advisory committee to report on and make recommendations about, for example, the role and impact of misinformation on responses to public health emergencies and strategies to improve communication during such emergencies. The committee terminates four years after the bill's enactment.

Additionally, the Department of Health and Human Services must support the development of initiatives that promote fact-based public health and medical information to the public and educate the public on identifying misinformation.

What's happening now March 2, 2022

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

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1