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Input: Consider Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Social Security and Medicare
Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

(a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
(1) fiscal pressures will mount as an aging population
increases the Government's obligations to provide retirement
income and health services;
(2) Social Security and Medicare surpluses should be
reserved for strengthening and preserving the Social Security
trust funds; and
(3) preserving Social Security and Medicare surpluses would
restore confidence in the long-term financial integrity of
Social Security and Medicare.
(b) Purpose.--It is the purpose of this Act to prevent the Social
Security and Medicare hospital insurance trust funds from being used
for any purpose other than providing retirement and health security.

SEC. 3. PROTECTION OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE SURPLUSES.

(a) Protection of Social Security and Medicare Surpluses.--Title
III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the
end the following new section:

''protection for social security and hospital insurance surpluses

''Sec. 316. (a) Protection for Social Security and Hospital
Insurance Surpluses.--
''(1) Concurrent resolutions on the budget.--
''(A) In general.--It shall not be in order in the
House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any
concurrent resolution on the budget, or an amendment
thereto or conference report thereon, that would set
forth a surplus for any fiscal year that is less than
the surplus of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust
Fund for that fiscal year.
''(B) Exception.--(i) Subparagraph (A) shall not
apply to the extent that a violation of such
subparagraph would result from an assumption in the
resolution, amendment, or conference report, as
applicable, of an increase in outlays or a decrease in
revenue relative to the baseline underlying that
resolution for social security reform legislation or
medicare reform legislation for any such fiscal year.
''(ii) If a concurrent resolution on the budget, or
an amendment thereto or conference report thereon,
would be in violation of subparagraph (A) because of an
assumption of an increase in outlays or a decrease in
revenue relative to the baseline underlying that
resolution for social security reform legislation or
medicare reform legislation for any such fiscal year,
then that resolution shall include a statement
identifying any such increase in outlays or decrease in
revenue.
''(2) Spending and tax legislation.--
''(A) In general.--It shall not be in order in the
House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any
bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or
conference report if--
''(i) the enactment of that bill or
resolution, as reported;
''(ii) the adoption and enactment of that
amendment; or
''(iii) the enactment of that bill or
resolution in the form recommended in that
conference report,
would cause the surplus for any fiscal year covered by
the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on
the budget to be less than the surplus of the Federal
Hospital Insurance Trust Fund for that fiscal year.
''(B) Exception.--Subparagraph (A) shall not apply
to social security reform legislation or medicare
reform legislation.
''(b) Enforcement.--
''(1) Budgetary levels with respect to concurrent
resolutions on the budget.--For purposes of enforcing any point
of order under subsection (a)(1), the surplus for any fiscal
year shall be--
''(A) the levels set forth in the later of the
concurrent resolution on the budget, as reported, or in
the conference report on the concurrent resolution on
the budget; and
''(B) adjusted to the maximum extent allowable
under all procedures that allow budgetary aggregates to
be adjusted for legislation that would cause a decrease
in the surplus for any fiscal year covered by the
concurrent resolution on the budget (other than
procedures described in paragraph (2)(A)(ii)).
''(2) Current levels with respect to spending and tax
legislation.--
''(A) In general.--For purposes of enforcing
subsection (a)(2), the current levels of the surplus
for any fiscal year shall be--
''(i) calculated using the following
assumptions--
''(I) direct spending and revenue
levels at the baseline levels
underlying the most recently agreed to
concurrent resolution on the budget;
and
''(II) for the budget year,
discretionary spending levels at
current law levels and, for outyears,
discretionary spending levels at the
baseline levels underlying the most
recently agreed to concurrent
resolution on the budget; and
''(ii) adjusted for changes in the surplus
levels set forth in the most recently agreed to
concurrent resolution on the budget pursuant to
procedures in such resolution that authorize
adjustments in budgetary aggregates for updated
economic and technical assumptions in the mid-
session report of the Director of the
Congressional Budget Office.
Such revisions shall be included in the first current
level report on the congressional budget submitted for
publication in the Congressional Record after the
release of such mid-session report.
''(B) Budgetary treatment.--Outlays (or receipts)
for any fiscal year resulting from social security or
medicare reform legislation in excess of the amount of
outlays (or less than the amount of receipts) for that
fiscal year set forth in the most recently agreed to
concurrent resolution on the budget or the section
302(a) allocation for such legislation, as applicable,
shall not be taken into account for purposes of
enforcing any point of order under subsection (a)(2).
''(3) Disclosure of hi surplus.--For purposes of enforcing
any point of order under subsection (a), the surplus of the
Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund for a fiscal year shall
be the levels set forth in the later of the report accompanying
the concurrent resolution on the budget (or, in the absence of
such a report, placed in the Congressional Record prior to the
consideration of such resolution) or in the joint explanatory
statement of managers accompanying such resolution.
''(c) Additional Content of Reports Accompanying Budget Resolutions
and of Joint Explanatory Statements.--The report accompanying any
concurrent resolution on the budget and the joint explanatory statement
accompanying the conference report on each such resolution shall
include the levels of the surplus in the budget for each fiscal year
set forth in such resolution and of the surplus or deficit in the
Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, calculated using the assumptions
set forth in subsection (b)(2)(A).
''(d) Definitions.--As used in this section:
''(1) The term 'medicare reform legislation' means a bill
or a joint resolution to save Medicare that includes a
provision stating the following: 'For purposes of section
316(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, this Act
constitutes medicare reform legislation.'.
''(2) The term 'social security reform legislation' means a
bill or a joint resolution to save social security that
includes a provision stating the following: 'For purposes of
section 316(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, this
Act constitutes social security reform legislation.'.
''(e) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or suspended
in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the
Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of
the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required in
the Senate to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point
of order raised under this section.
''(f) Effective Date.--This section shall cease to have any force
or effect upon the enactment of social security reform legislation and
medicare reform legislation.''.
(b) Conforming Amendment.--The item relating to section 316 in the
table of contents set forth in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget
and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended to read as follows:

''Sec. 316. Protection for Social Security and hospital insurance
surpluses.''.

SEC. 4. PRESIDENT'S BUDGET.

(a) Protection of Social Security and Medicare Surpluses.--If the
budget of the Government submitted by the President under section
1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, recommends a surplus for any
fiscal year that is less than the surplus of the Federal Hospital
Insurance Trust Fund for that fiscal year, then it shall include a
detailed proposal for social security reform legislation or medicare
reform legislation.
(b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall cease to have any force
or effect upon the enactment of social security reform legislation and
medicare reform legislation as defined by section 316(d) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974.

Output: Social Security and Medicare Protection Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any concurrent resolution on the budget (or related measure) that would set forth a surplus for any fiscal year less than the surplus of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund for that fiscal year.

Creates an exception to such point of order if a violation of it would result from an assumption in the measure of an increase in outlays or a decrease in revenue relative to the baseline underlying the measure for Social Security or Medicare reform legislation for any such year.

Makes it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any (spending or tax) measure if its enactment would cause the surplus for any fiscal year covered by the most recently agreed to budget resolution to be less than the surplus of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund for that fiscal year. Creates an exception to such point of order similar to the other one.

Declares that, if the President's budget recommends an on-budget surplus for any fiscal year less than the surplus of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund for that fiscal year, then it shall include a detailed proposal for Social Security or Medicare reform legislation.

Input: Consider Input: SEC. 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Community Partnerships Against Crime
Act'', or ''COMPAC''.

SEC. 2. COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AGAINST CRIME.

(a) Conforming Provisions.--(1) Section 5001 of the Anti-Drug Abuse
Act of 1988 is amended--
(A) by striking

''Chapter 2--Public and Assisted Housing Drug Elimination''

and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

''Chapter 2--Community Partnerships Against Crime'';

(B) by striking ''Congressional findings.'' and
inserting in lieu thereof the following:
''Purposes.''; and
(C) by adding after

''Sec. 5130. Authorization of appropriations.''
the following:

''Sec. 5131. Technical assistance.''.
(2) The heading for chapter 2 of subtitle C of title V of the Anti-
Drug Abuse Act of 1988 is amended to read as follows:

''CHAPTER 2--COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AGAINST CRIME''.

(b) Short Title, Purposes, and Authority To Make Grants.--Sections
5121, 5122, and 5123 of the Public and Assisted Housing Drug
Elimination Act of 1990 are amended to read as follows:

''SEC. 5121. SHORT TITLE.

''This chapter may be cited as the 'Community Partnerships Against
Crime Act of 1993'.

''SEC. 5122. PURPOSES.

''The purposes of this chapter are to--
''(1) substantially expand and enhance the Federal
Government's commitment to eliminating crime in public housing;
''(2) broaden the scope of the Public and Assisted Housing
Drug Elimination Act of 1990 to apply to all types of crime,
and not simply crime that is drug-related;
''(3) target opportunities for long-term commitments of
funding primarily to public housing agencies with serious crime
problems;
''(4) encourage the involvement of a broad range of
community-based groups, and residents of neighboring housing
that is owned or assisted by the Secretary, in the development
and implementation of anti-crime plans;
''(5) reduce crime and disorder in and around public
housing through the expansion of community-oriented policing
activities and problem solving;
''(6) provide training, information services, and other
technical assistance to program participants; and
''(7) establish a standardized assessment system to
evaluate need among public housing agencies, and to measure
progress in reaching crime reduction goals.

''SEC. 5123. AUTHORITY TO MAKE GRANTS.

''The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in accordance
with the provisions of this chapter, may make grants, for use in
eliminating crime in and around public and other federally assisted
low-income housing projects (1) to public housing agencies (including
Indian housing authorities) and (2) using amounts appropriated for
fiscal year 1994 only, to private, for-profit and nonprofit owners of
federally assisted low-income housing. In designing the program, the
Secretary shall consult with the Attorney General.''.
(c) Eligible Activities.--Section 5124 of such Act is amended--
(1) by striking ''(a) Public and Assisted Housing.--'';
(2) by inserting in the introductory material, immediately
after ''used in'', the following: ''and around'';
(3) in paragraph (3), by inserting immediately before the
semicolon the following: '', such as fencing, lighting,
locking, and surveillance systems'';
(4) by striking paragraph (4)(A) and inserting in lieu
thereof the following new subparagraph:
''(A) to investigate crime; and'';
(5) in paragraph (6)--
(A) by striking ''in and around public or other
federally assisted low-income housing projects''; and
(B) by striking ''and'' after the semicolon;
(6) in paragraph (7)--
(A) by striking ''where a public housing agency
receives a grant,'';
(B) by striking ''drug abuse'' and inserting in
lieu thereof ''crime''; and
(C) by striking the period at the end and inserting
in lieu thereof a colon;
(7) by adding the following new paragraphs after paragraph
(7):
''(8) the employment or utilization of one or more
individuals, including law enforcement officers, made available
by contract or other cooperative arrangement with State or
local law enforcement agencies, to engage in community- and
problem-oriented policing involving interaction with members of
the community on proactive crime control and prevention;
''(9) youth initiatives, such as activities involving
training, education, after school programs, cultural programs,
recreation and sports, career planning, and entrepreneurship
and employment; and
''(10) resident service programs, such as job training,
education programs, and other appropriate social services which
address the contributing factors of crime.''; and
(8) by striking subsection (b).
(d) Applications.--Section 5125 of such Act is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) by adding the paragraph designation ''(1)''
immediately after ''In general.--'';
(B) in the first sentence, by striking '', a public
housing resident management corporation,'';
(C) in the second sentence, by striking ''drug-
related crime on the premises of'' and inserting in
lieu thereof the following: ''crime in and around'';
and
(D) by adding the following new paragraphs at the
end:
''(2) The Secretary shall, by regulation issued after
notice and opportunity for public comment, set forth criteria
for establishing a class of public housing agencies that have
especially severe crime problems. Any public housing agency
within this class may submit an application for a one-year
grant under this chapter that, subject to the availability of
appropriated amounts, shall be renewed for a period not
exceeding the four subsequent years: Provided, That the
Secretary finds, after an annual or more frequent performance
review, that the public housing agency is performing under the
terms of the grant and applicable laws in a satisfactory manner
and meets such other requirements as the Secretary may
prescribe.
''(3) Any eligible applicant may submit an application for
a grant for a period of up to two years. The Secretary may
accord a preference to applications seeking a subsequent grant
under this paragraph if the grant is to be used to continue or
expand activities assisted under a previous grant under this
paragraph and the Secretary finds that the applicant's program
under the prior grant is being managed soundly and demonstrates
success. Any preferences under the preceding sentence shall not
unreasonably prejudice the opportunities of other public
housing agencies to be awarded grants under this paragraph.'';
(2) in subsection (b)--
(A) in the introductory material, by striking
''subsections (c) and (d)'' and inserting in lieu
thereof ''subsections (a) and (c)'';
(B) in paragraph (1), by striking ''drug-related
crime problem in'' and inserting in lieu thereof the
following: ''crime problem in and around'';
(C) in paragraph (2), by inserting immediately
after ''crime problem in'' the following: ''and
around''; and
(D) in paragraph (4), by inserting after ''local
government'' the following: '', local community-based
non-profit organizations, local resident organizations
that represent the residents of neighboring projects
that are owned or assisted by the Secretary,'';
(3) in subsection (c)(2) by striking ''drug-related'' the
two places it appears; and
(4) by striking subsection (d).
(e) Definitions.--Section 5126 of such Act is amended by striking
paragraphs (1) and (2), and renumbering paragraphs (3) and (4) as
paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively.
(f) Implementation.--Section 5127 of such Act is amended to read as
follows:

''SEC 5127. IMPLEMENTATION.

''The Secretary shall issue regulations to implement this chapter
within 180 days of the enactment of the Community Partnerships Against
Crime Act.''.
(g) Reports.--Section 5128 of such Act is amended by striking
''drug-related crime in'' and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
''crime in and around''.
(h) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 5130 of such Act is
amended--
(1) in the first sentence of subsection (a), by striking
''$175,000,000 for fiscal year 1993'' and all that follows and
inserting in lieu thereof: ''$265,000,000 for fiscal year 1994
and $325,000,000 for fiscal year 1995.'';
(2) in subsection (b)--
(A) by striking ''Set-Asides'' and inserting in
lieu thereof ''Set-Aside'';
(B) by striking the first sentence;
(C) by striking ''drug elimination'';
(D) by striking ''fiscal years 1993 and 1994''; and
(E) by striking ''and 5.0 percent'' and all that
follows through the end of the sentence and inserting
in lieu thereof a period; and
(3) by striking subsection (c) and section 520(k) of the
Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act.
(i) Technical Assistance.--Such Act is further amended by adding at
the end thereof the following new section:

''SEC. 5131. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.

''Of the amounts appropriated annually for each of fiscal years
1994 and 1995 to carry out this chapter, the Secretary is authorized to
use up to $10,000,000, directly or indirectly, under grants, contracts,
cooperative agreements, or otherwise, to provide training, information
services, and other technical assistance to public housing agencies and
other entities with respect to their participation in the program
authorized by this chapter. Such technical assistance may include the
establishment and operation of the clearinghouse on drug abuse in
public housing and the regional training program on drug abuse in
public housing under sections 5143 and 5144 of this Act. The Secretary
is also authorized to use the foregoing amounts for obtaining
assistance in establishing and managing assessment and evaluation
criteria and specifications, and obtaining the opinions of experts in
relevant fields.''.

Output: Community Partnerships Against Crime Act, or COMPAC - Amends the Public and Assisted Housing Drug Elimination Act of 1990 to expand the use of anti-drug crime public housing grants to all types of crime.
Makes long-term (one-year initial, five-year total) grants available to public housing authorities with especially severe crime problems. Makes other applicants eligible for two-year grants, with preference for subsequent funding.

Input: Consider Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Strengthening Public Health
Protections in Major Disasters and Emergencies Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND SAFETY OF INDIVIDUALS IN A DISASTER
AREA.

Title IV of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act is amended by inserting after section 408 (42 U.S.C.
5174) the following:

''SEC. 409. PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND SAFETY OF INDIVIDUALS IN DISASTER
AREA.

''(a) Definitions.--In this section, the following definitions
apply:
''(1) Individual.--The term 'individual' includes--
''(A) a worker or volunteer who responded to
Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita or responds to a
major disaster or emergency, including--
''(i) a police officer;
''(ii) a firefighter;
''(iii) an emergency medical technician;
''(iv) any participating member of an urban
search and rescue team; and
''(v) any other relief or rescue worker or
volunteer that the President determines to be
appropriate;
''(B) a worker who responds to a disaster by
assisting in the cleanup or restoration of critical
infrastructure in and around a disaster area;
''(C) a person whose place of residence is in a
disaster area;
''(D) a person who is employed in or attends
school, child care, or adult day care in a building
located in a disaster area; and
''(E) any other person that the President
determines to be appropriate.
''(2) Medical institution.--The term 'medical institution'
includes a hospital facility (as such term is defined in
section 391 of the Energy Policy Conservation Act (42 U.S.C.
6371) and an accredited public or nonprofit school of medicine.
''(3) Program.--The term 'program' means a program
described in subsection (b) that is carried out for a disaster
area.
''(4) Substance of concern.--The term 'substance of
concern' means a chemical or other substance that is associated
with potential acute or chronic human health effects, the risk
of exposure to which could potentially be increased as the
result of a disaster, as determined by the President.
''(b) Program.--
''(1) In general.--If the President determines that 1 or
more substances of concern are being, or have been, released in
an area declared to be a major disaster area under this Act,
the President may carry out a program for the protection,
assessment, monitoring, and study of the health and safety of
individuals to ensure that--
''(A) the individuals are adequately informed about
and protected against potential health impacts of any
substance of concern and potential mental health
impacts in a timely manner;
''(B) the individuals are monitored and studied
over time, including through baseline and follow-up
clinical health examinations, for--
''(i) any short- and long-term health
impacts of any substance of concern; and
''(ii) any mental health impacts;
''(C) the individuals receive health care referrals
as needed and appropriate; and
''(D) information from any such monitoring and
studies is used to prevent or protect against similar
health impacts from future disasters.
''(2) Activities.--A program under paragraph (1) may
include such activities as--
''(A) collecting and analyzing environmental
exposure data;
''(B) developing and disseminating information and
educational materials;
''(C) performing baseline and follow-up clinical
health and mental health examinations and taking
biological samples;
''(D) establishing and maintaining an exposure
registry;
''(E) studying the short- and long-term human
health impacts of any exposures through epidemiological
and other health studies; and
''(F) providing assistance to individuals in
determining eligibility for health coverage and
identifying appropriate health services.
''(3) Timing.--To the maximum extent practicable,
activities under any program established under paragraph (1)
(including baseline health examinations) shall be commenced in
a timely manner that will ensure the highest level of public
health protection and effective monitoring.
''(4) Participation in registries and studies.--
''(A) In general.--Participation in any registry or
study that is part of a program under paragraph (1)
shall be voluntary.
''(B) Protection of privacy.--The President shall
take appropriate measures to protect the privacy of any
participant in a registry or study described in
subparagraph (A).
''(5) Cooperative agreements.--
''(A) In general.--The President may carry out a
program under paragraph (1) through a cooperative
agreement with a medical institution, including a local
health department, or a consortium of medical
institutions.
''(B) Selection criteria.--To the maximum extent
practicable, the President shall select to carry out a
program under paragraph (1) a medical institution or a
consortium of medical institutions that--
''(i) is located near--
''(I) the disaster area with
respect to which the program is carried
out; and
''(II) any other area in which
there reside groups of individuals that
worked or volunteered in response to
the disaster; and
''(ii) has appropriate experience in the
areas of environmental or occupational health,
toxicology, and safety, including experience
in--
''(I) developing clinical protocols
and conducting clinical health
examinations, including mental health
assessments;
''(II) conducting long-term health
monitoring and epidemiological studies;
''(III) conducting long-term mental
health studies; and
''(IV) establishing and maintaining
medical surveillance programs and
environmental exposure or disease
registries.
''(6) Involvement.--
''(A) In general.--In establishing and maintaining
a program under paragraph (1), the President shall
involve interested and affected parties, as
appropriate, including representatives of--
''(i) Federal, State, and local government
agencies;
''(ii) groups of individuals that worked or
volunteered in response to the disaster in the
disaster area;
''(iii) local residents, businesses, and
schools (including parents and teachers);
''(iv) health care providers; and
''(v) other organizations and persons.
''(B) Committees.--Involvement under subparagraph
(A) may be provided through the establishment of an
advisory or oversight committee or board.
''(7) Privacy.--The President shall carry out each program
under paragraph (1) in accordance with regulations relating to
privacy promulgated under section 264(c) of the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C.
11320d-2 note; Public Law 104-191).
''(c) Reports.--Not later than 1 year after the establishment of a
program under subsection (b)(1), and every 5 years thereafter, the
President, or the medical institution or consortium of such
institutions having entered into a cooperative agreement under
subsection (b)(5), shall submit to the Secretary of Homeland Security,
the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Labor, the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and appropriate
committees of Congress a report on programs and studies carried out
under the program.''.

SEC. 3. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES REPORT ON HURRICANE KATRINA AND
RITA DISASTER AREA HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AND MONITORING.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary
of Health and Human Services, and the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency shall jointly enter into a contract
with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study and prepare a
report on disaster area health and environmental protection and
monitoring.
(b) Expertise.--The report under subsection (a) shall be prepared
with the participation of individuals who have expertise in--
(1) environmental health, safety, and medicine;
(2) occupational health, safety, and medicine;
(3) clinical medicine, including pediatrics;
(4) toxicology;
(5) epidemiology;
(6) mental health;
(7) medical monitoring and surveillance;
(8) environmental monitoring and surveillance;
(9) environmental and industrial hygiene;
(10) emergency planning and preparedness;
(11) public outreach and education;
(12) State and local health departments;
(13) State and local environmental protection departments;
(14) functions of workers that respond to disasters,
including first responders;
(15) public health and family services;
(16) environmental justice; and
(17) health and health care disparities.
(c) Contents.--The report under subsection (a) shall provide advice
and recommendations regarding protecting and monitoring the health and
safety of individuals potentially exposed to any chemical or other
substance associated with potential acute or chronic human health
effects as the result of a disaster, including advice and
recommendations regarding--
(1) the establishment of protocols for the monitoring of
and response to chemical or substance releases in a disaster
area for the purpose of protecting public health and safety,
including--
(A) chemicals or other substances for which samples
should be collected in the event of a disaster,
including a terrorist attack;
(B) chemical- or substance-specific methods of
sample collection, including sampling methodologies and
locations;
(C) chemical- or substance-specific methods of
sample analysis;
(D) health-based threshold levels to be used and
response actions to be taken in the event that
thresholds are exceeded for individual chemicals or
other substances;
(E) procedures for providing monitoring results
to--
(i) appropriate Federal, State, and local
government agencies;
(ii) appropriate response personnel; and
(iii) the public;
(F) responsibilities of Federal, State and local
agencies for--
(i) collecting and analyzing samples;
(ii) reporting results; and
(iii) taking appropriate response actions;
and
(G) capabilities and capacity within the Federal
Government to conduct appropriate environmental
monitoring and response in the event of a disaster,
including a terrorist attack; and
(2) other issues as specified by the Secretary of Homeland
Security, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be
appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this section.

SEC. 4. PREDISASTER HAZARD MITIGATION.

Section 203(m) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5133(m)) is amended by striking
''December 31, 2008'' and inserting ''September 30, 2010''.

SEC. 5. PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES BLOCK GRANTS; USE OF ALLOTMENTS.

Section 1904(a)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
300w-3(a)(1)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (G)--
(A) by striking ''through (F)'' and inserting
''through (G)''; and
(B) by redesignating such subparagraph as
subparagraph (H); and
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (F), the following:
''(G) Community outreach and education programs and
other activities designed to address and prevent health
and health care disparities.''.
Output: Strengthening Public Health Protections in Major Disasters and Emergencies Act of 2007 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to carry out a program for the protection, assessment, monitoring, and study of the health and safety of individuals who responded to Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita or who respond to a major disaster or emergency, if chemicals or substances associated with potential acute or chronic human health effects were or are released in a major disaster area.

Makes participation voluntary. Requires the President to take appropriate measures to protect the privacy of registry or study participants. Authorizes the President to carry out such a program through a cooperative agreement with a medical institution (including a local health department) or a consortium of medical institutions. Requires the President to carry out such a program in accordance with certain privacy regulations.

Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enter jointly into a contract with the National Academy of Sciences to study and report on disaster area health and environmental protection and monitoring.

Extends through September 30, 2010, the President's authority to establish a program to provide technical and financial assistance to state and local governments for the implementation of cost-effective predisaster hazard mitigation measures.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize payments from allotments made to a state for community outreach and education programs and other activities designed to prevent health and health care disparities.