Title: Medical Preparedness Allowable Use Act
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
Medical Preparedness Allowable Use Act
This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the use of Urban Area Security Initiative and State Homeland Security Grant Program funding for enhancing medical preparedness, medical surge capacity, and mass prophylaxis capabilities, including the development and maintenance of an initial pharmaceutical stockpile, including medical kits, and diagnostics sufficient to protect first responders, their families, immediate victims, and vulnerable populations from a chemical or biological event.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 437 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 437

 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to codify authority under 
    existing grant guidance authorizing use of Urban Area Security 
   Initiative and State Homeland Security Grant Program funding for 
   enhancing medical preparedness, medical surge capacity, and mass 
                       prophylaxis capabilities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 11, 2017

 Mr. Bilirakis (for himself and Mrs. Brooks of Indiana) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                                Security

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to codify authority under 
    existing grant guidance authorizing use of Urban Area Security 
   Initiative and State Homeland Security Grant Program funding for 
   enhancing medical preparedness, medical surge capacity, and mass 
                       prophylaxis capabilities.

    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 ``Medical Preparedness Allowable Use 
Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF CERTAIN HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT FUNDS FOR ENHANCING 
              MEDICAL PREPAREDNESS, MEDICAL SURGE CAPACITY, AND MASS 
              PROPHYLAXIS CAPABILITIES.

    Section 2008 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 609) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraphs (10) through (14) 
                as paragraphs (11) through (15), respectively; and
                    (B) by inserting after paragraph (9) the following 
                new paragraph (10):
            ``(10) enhancing medical preparedness, medical surge 
        capacity, and mass prophylaxis capabilities, including the 
        development and maintenance of an initial pharmaceutical 
        stockpile, including medical kits, and diagnostics sufficient 
        to protect first responders, their families, immediate victims, 
        and vulnerable populations from a chemical or biological 
        event;''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)(3)(B), by striking ``subsection 
        (a)(10)'' and inserting ``subsection (a)(11)''.
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