§300hh–31 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of Health, through the CDC Director, must set up a grant program to give money to state, local, and tribal health departments that meet CDC rules. Academic centers that help those health departments may also get money. The grants must help public health agencies watch for and respond to infectious diseases and other health threats by: improving people who do disease tracking and monitoring (including mosquito and other vector-borne diseases), making labs and electronic test reporting better, building information systems and a national data exchange that follow national guidance and an advisory council’s set functions, and creating and using prevention and control plans. Congress authorized $190,000,000 for each fiscal year 2019 through 2023 to run the program, if money is provided. Each year at least $95,000,000 must go to disease tracking and prevention/control work, at least $60,000,000 must go to information systems, and at least $32,000,000 must go to lab improvements and electronic reporting.

Title 42, §300hh–31

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(a)Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall establish an Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity Grant Program to award grants to State health departments as well as local health departments and tribal jurisdictions that meet such criteria as the Director determines appropriate. Academic centers that assist State and eligible local and tribal health departments may also be eligible for funding under this section as the Director determines appropriate. Grants shall be awarded under this section to assist public health agencies in improving surveillance for, and response to, infectious diseases and other conditions of public health importance by—

(1)strengthening epidemiologic capacity to identify and monitor the occurrence of infectious diseases, including mosquito and other vector-borne diseases, and other conditions of public health importance;

(2)enhancing laboratory practice as well as systems to report test orders and results electronically;

(3)improving information systems including developing and maintaining an information exchange using national guidelines and complying with capacities and functions determined by an advisory council established and appointed by the Director; and

(4)developing and implementing prevention and control strategies.

(b)There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $190,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023, of which—

(1)not less than $95,000,000 shall be made available each such fiscal year for activities under paragraphs (1) and (4) of subsection (a);

(2)not less than $60,000,000 shall be made available each such fiscal year for activities under subsection (a)(3); and

(3)not less than $32,000,000 shall be made available each such fiscal year for activities under subsection (a)(2).

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2019—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 116–22, § 607(b)(1), inserted “, including mosquito and other vector-borne diseases,” after “infectious diseases”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 116–22, § 607(b)(2), substituted “2019 through 2023” for “2010 through 2013” in introductory provisions.

§300hh–31 Epidemiology-laboratory capacity grants

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Title 42, §300hh–31

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