Public Health and Border Security Act of 2022
Bill: H.R.7458 | Sponsor: Rep. Golden, Jared F. (D-ME)
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Public Health and Border Security Act of 2022
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to meet conditions related to notification and planning before terminating certain restrictions on imports and individuals entering the United States.
Current law authorizes HHS to restrict entries and imports from foreign countries to prevent the introduction of communicable diseases. HHS exercised this authority as part of its COVID-19 response, including to allow for the expulsion of undocumented migrants at the border without any asylum processing.
Under this bill, HHS may not terminate the restrictions for (1) at least 60 days after it notifies Congress of the end of the COVID-19 emergency, and (2) at least 30 days after it submits to Congress a plan for addressing the possible influx of migrants or imports resulting from lifting the restrictions.

To establish a procedure for terminating the suspension of entries and 
    imports from designated places related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Public Health and Border Security 
Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF SUSPENSION OF ENTRIES AND IMPORTS FROM 
              DESIGNATED PLACES RELATED TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

    (a) In General.--An order of suspension described in subsection (b) 
shall not be lifted before the date that is 60 days after the date on 
which the Secretary of Health and Human Services provides written 
notification to the appropriate authorizing and appropriating 
committees of Congress that the public health emergency declaration 
described in subsection (b) has been terminated.
    (b) Order of Suspension Described.--An order of suspension 
described in this subsection is an order of suspension issued under 
section 362 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 265) as a 
result of the public health emergency declaration relating to the 
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic under section 319 of such 
Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) made on January 31, 2020, including any renewal of 
such declaration.
    (c) Procedures During 60-Day Termination Window.--
            (1) Plan.--Not later than 30 days after the date on which a 
        written notification is provided under subsection (a) with 
        respect to an order of suspension described in subsection (b), 
        the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation 
        with the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the head of any 
        Federal agency, State, local, or Tribal government, and 
        nongovernmental organization that has a role in managing 
        outcomes associated with the suspension, as determined by the 
        Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall develop and 
        submit to the appropriate authorizing and appropriating 
        committees of Congress a plan to address any possible influx of 
        entries or imports related to the termination of such order.
            (2) Failure to submit.--If a plan under paragraph (1) is 
        not submitted to the appropriate authorizing and appropriating 
        committees of Congress within the 30-day period described in 
        such paragraph, not later than 7 days after the expiration of 
        such 30-day period, the Secretary of Health and Human 
        Services--
                    (A) shall notify such committees of Congress, in 
                writing, of the status of preparing such a plan and the 
                timing for submission as required under paragraph (1); 
                and
                    (B) delay the termination of an order of suspension 
                described in subsection (b) until the date that is 30 
                days after the date on which such plan is submitted to 
                such committees.
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