Title: Detection and Response to Emerging Highly Communicable Infectious Disease Events Act
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
Detection and Response to Emerging Highly Communicable Infectious Disease Events Act
This bill directs the National Biosurveillance Integration Center of the Department of Homeland Security to detect, as early as possible, an emerging highly communicable infectious disease event (currently, limited to a biological event) of national concern that presents a risk to the United States or U.S. infrastructure or key assets.
The center shall report to the National Security Council and the congressional homeland security committees within 72 hours of confirmation of such infectious disease event being detected.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6505 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6505

 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to clarify the role of the 
   National Biosurveillance Integration Center of the Department of 
Homeland Security regarding an emerging highly communicable infectious 
       disease event of national concern, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 14, 2020

 Ms. Jackson Lee introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce, 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 amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to clarify the role of the 
   National Biosurveillance Integration Center of the Department of 
Homeland Security regarding an emerging highly communicable infectious 
       disease event of national concern, 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 ``Detection and Response to Emerging 
Highly Communicable Infectious Disease Events Act''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL BIOSURVEILLANCE INTEGRATION CENTER.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (c) of section 316 of the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 195b) is amended by inserting ``, 
including an emerging highly communicable infectious disease event,'' 
after ``biological event''.
    (b) Reporting.--Section 316 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is 
amended by--
            (1) redesignating subsections (h) through (j) as 
        subsections (i) through (k), respectively; and
            (2) inserting after subsection (g) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(h) Reporting.--The Directing Officer of the NBIC shall report to 
the National Security Council, the Committee on Homeland Security of 
the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate within 72 hours of confirmation 
of an emerging highly communicable infectious disease event of national 
concern being detected.''.
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