Title: Limiting CDC to Disease Control Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Limiting CDC to Disease Control Act
This bill modifies and limits the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue regulations to control communicable diseases.
Current law authorizes HHS to make and enforce regulations to prevent the introduction or spread of communicable diseases. In particular, current law provides that HHS may make and enforce regulations addressing (1) isolation and quarantine of infected individuals (subject to certain restrictions); and (2) inspection, fumigation, disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, destruction of infected animals or articles, and other measures that the department determines may be necessary. HHS has delegated this authority to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
This bill eliminates the authority of the CDC to make and enforce regulations that provide for other measures it determines may be necessary to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, thereby limiting the scope of its regulations to the other specific purposes set out in current law.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1615 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1615

To limit the scope of regulations issued by the Secretary of Health and 
    Human Services to control communicable diseases, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 13, 2021

   Mr. Paul 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 limit the scope of regulations issued by the Secretary of Health and 
    Human Services to control communicable diseases, 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 ``Limiting CDC to Disease Control 
Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITING THE SCOPE OF REGULATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 
              AND HUMAN SERVICES TO CONTROL COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.

    Section 361(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264(a)) 
is amended by striking ``The Surgeon General,'' and all that follows 
through ``may be necessary.'' at the end and inserting the following: 
``To prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable 
diseases from foreign countries into the States or possessions, or from 
one State or possession into any other State or possession, the 
Secretary may make and enforce regulations under this section--
            ``(1) for the measures authorized under subsections (b) 
        through (d); or
            ``(2) to provide for such inspection, fumigation, 
        disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, or destruction of 
        animals or articles found to be so infected or contaminated as 
        to be sources of dangerous infection to human beings.''.
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