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107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3458
To provide for the development and dissemination of educational materials
about responding to terrorist events involving a nuclear, biological, or
chemical element, and to provide for an emergency medicine alert net-
work.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
DECEMBER 11, 2001
Mr. SHADEGG introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To provide for the development and dissemination of edu-
cational materials about responding to terrorist events
involving a nuclear, biological, or chemical element, and
to provide for an emergency medicine alert network.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. DEVELOPMENT AND DISSEMINATION OF EDU-
CATIONAL MATERIALS ABOUT RESPONDING
TO TERRORIST EVENTS INVOLVING A NU-
CLEAR, BIOLOGICAL, OR CHEMICAL ELE-
MENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and
Human Services (hereafter in this section referred to as
the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall make a grant or enter into a con-
tract with a private nonprofit organization (meeting cri-
teria established by the Secretary) to—
(1) develop materials for teaching to physicians,
nurses, and other appropriate health care personnel
the elements of a core curriculum for responding, at
a preparedness level, to a terrorist event involving a
nuclear, biological, or chemical element;
(2) develop materials for teaching the elements
of a core curriculum for an awareness level course
to prepare the general public to respond to such an
event;
(3) develop a core curriculum and materials for
planning by local governments, legislators, hospital
administrators, chiefs of police and fire departments,
and local business leaders to respond to such an
event; and
(4) provide for disseminating and teaching the
materials described in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3)
by all appropriate means, including telemedicine,
long-distance learning, and CD–ROMs.
(b) USE OF TECHNICAL ADVISORY PANELS.—An or-
ganization receiving a grant for the purposes specified in
subsection (a) may utilize one or more technical advisory
panels to assist in the preparation of the curricula and
materials described in such subsection.
(c) CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF GRANT RECIPI-
ENT.—The criteria established by the Secretary under
subsection (a) shall require that, in order to be eligible
for a grant or contract under such subsection, an organi-
zation shall have recent experience with the development
of a core curriculum for responding to a terrorist event
involving a nuclear, biological, or chemical element.
(d) ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN DATA BASE.—Estab-
lish and maintain a data base containing up-to-date infor-
mation on the identities and current addresses (geographic
and electronic) of doctors, nurses and other health care
personnel who have received training in the curriculum de-
scribed in subsection (a)(1) in order to update these per-
sonnel as new information becomes available.
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There
are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2002 and
for each fiscal year thereafter such sums as may be nec-
essary for the purpose of carrying out this section.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF DATA BASE AND EMERGENCY
MEDICINE ALERT NETWORK.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and
Human Services (hereafter in this section referred to as
the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall make a grant or enter into a con-
tract with a private nonprofit organization (meeting cri-
teria established by the Secretary) to—
(1) establish and maintain a mechanism (which
shall be known as the ‘‘emergency medicine alert
network’’) for use by the Secretary, State depart-
ments of health, and other appropriate entities in
transmitting to such personnel—
(A) information about a terrorist event in-
volving a nuclear, biological, or chemical ele-
ment;
(B) information about changes in the rec-
ommended methods for such personnel to re-
spond to such an event; and
(C) that allows for coordinated sharing and
discussion of essential information in real time
across jurisdictional and geographic boundaries.
(b) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be
necessary for fiscal year 2002 and each fiscal year there-
after for the purpose of carrying out this section.
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