Title: Combat Valley Fever Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Combat Valley Fever Act
This bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish a registry and award grants for the purpose of tracking cases of coccidioidomycosis (also known as Valley fever)—a lung infection caused by a certain fungus found in soil.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3114 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3114

To provide for the establishment of a national registry to track cases 
             of coccidioidomycosis, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 21, 2018

  Ms. Harris introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the establishment of a national registry to track cases 
             of coccidioidomycosis, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Combat Valley Fever Act''.

SEC. 2. TRACKING CASES OF COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS.

    (a) Registry.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
        (referred to in this section as the ``Secretary''), acting 
        through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and in 
        consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, shall establish 
        a registry for reports of cases of coccidioidomycosis.
            (2) Grant program.--The Secretary shall award grants to 
        States and State and local departments of health for the 
        purpose of supporting the surveillance of cases of 
        coccidioidomycosis within the applicable State, and the 
        reporting of any such cases to the registry established under 
        paragraph (1).
            (3) Year of diagnosis.--In listing cases of 
        coccidioidomycosis in the registry established under paragraph 
        (1), the Secretary shall attribute each case to the year in 
        which it was diagnosed.
    (b) Protocols and Guidelines.--The Secretary, in consultation with 
the Secretary of Agriculture, shall make publicly available any 
protocols and guidelines developed by the Department of Agriculture, 
the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, or appropriate professional health care organizations, for 
purposes of educating health care providers, farmers, and other 
agricultural workers regarding the most recent scientific and medical 
information on the etiology, transmission, diagnosis, surveillance, and 
treatment of coccidioidomycosis.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.
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