Limiting CDC to Disease Control Act

Bill: 117-s-1615
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2021-05-13
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Department of Health and Human Services

Health promotion and preventive care

Infectious and parasitic diseases
Latest action: action_date: 2021-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-05-13
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Limiting CDC to Disease Control Act</strong></p> <p>This bill modifies and limits the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue regulations to control communicable diseases.</p> <p>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).</p> <p>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.

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1615 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 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Limiting CDC to Disease Control Act . 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. .