To amend the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary to award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to eligible entities to establish, maintain, or improve activities related to the detection and monitoring of infectious diseases through wastewater for public health emergency preparedness and response purposes, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, To amend the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary to award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to eligible entities to establish, maintain, or improve activities related to the detection and monitoring of infectious diseases through wastewater for public health emergency preparedness and response purposes, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients. The main policy domain is Healthcare, Energy, Environment.
Who Benefits and How
health care providers and patients may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, health care providers and patients may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section HDD7FE9697DE74B4D8E42E085658685FC: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Surveilling Effluent Water for Epidemic Response Act or the SEWER Act.
- Section HA52A4F6C676A4D63A852AC1A0671852A: 2. National Wastewater Surveillance System Subtitle C of title XXVIII of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300hh–31 et seq.) is amended by adding at the...
- Section H95DE96F02B2A4CB9B592F964F97BA30F: 2827. National Wastewater Surveillance System The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and in coordination...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, To amend the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary to award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to eligible entities to establish, maintain, or improve activities related to the detection and monitoring of infectious diseases through wastewater for public health emergency preparedness and response purposes, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Energy, Environment
Primary Purpose
This bill, To amend the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary to award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to eligible entities to establish, maintain, or improve activities related to the detection and monitoring of infectious diseases through wastewater for public health emergency preparedness and response purposes, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- health care providers and patients
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- health care providers and patients
Sponsors
Robert Garcia
D-CA | Primary Sponsor
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Robert Garcia of California (for himself and Mr. Bacon) …
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → The Secretary identified in the operative section
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