Title: American Students Abroad Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
American Students Abroad Act
This bill directs the Department of State to make available to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for each calendar quarter a copy of the report issued by a U.S. embassy or consulate relating to the overseas death of a U.S. citizen.
The Public Health Service Act is amended to direct the CDC to expand its surveillance programs of U.S. citizen deaths abroad, including through the use of the reports made available pursuant to the Ravi Thackurdeen Travel Safety Act.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4411 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4411

 To direct the Secretary of State to make available to the Director of 
   the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention copies of consular 
  reports of death of United States citizens, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 15, 2017

  Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York introduced the following bill; 
  which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in 
   addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of State to make available to the Director of 
   the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention copies of consular 
  reports of death of United States citizens, 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 ``American Students Abroad Act''.

SEC. 2. COPIES OF CONSULAR REPORTS OF DEATH OF U.S. CITIZENS ABROAD TO 
              BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND 
              PREVENTION.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of State shall make available to the 
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for each 
calendar quarter a copy of each report described in subsection (b) that 
is issued during the preceding calendar quarter.
    (b) Report Described.--The report described in this subsection is a 
report issued by a United States embassy or consulate relating to the 
death of a United States citizen in a foreign country upon receipt by 
the embassy or consulate of the foreign death certificate or finding of 
death by a local competent authority.

SEC. 3. SURVEILLANCE BY CDC OF DEATHS OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS ABROAD.

    The Public Health Service Act is amended by inserting after section 
317T of such Act (42 U.S.C. 247b-22) the following:

``SEC. 317U. SURVEILLANCE OF DEATHS OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS ABROAD.

    ``The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, shall expand and intensify the programs 
and activities of the Centers for surveillance of deaths of United 
States citizens occurring abroad, including through the use of the 
reports made available to the Director pursuant to section 2 of the 
Ravi Thackurdeen Travel Safety Act.''.
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