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S. 4227 119th Congress Senate

Preventing Illegal Laboratories and Protecting Public Health Act of 2026

Official title: A bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, to carry out a program unde… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, to carry out a program under which the Secretary requires each covered distributor of a highly pathogenic agent to comply with certain logbook requirements, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 26, 2026 Introduced by: Catherine Cortez Masto Democratic · Nevada See on congress.gov
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Mar 26, 2026
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Mar 26, 2026
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4227: Preventing Illegal Laboratories and Protecting Public Health Act of 2026. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4227/
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"S. 4227: Preventing Illegal Laboratories and Protecting Public Health Act of 2026." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4227/.
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S. 4227, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4227/.
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