Public health surveillance bill
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Separate bills pending in the Senate (S. 3476) and House (H.R. 6905) would add grant authorities to state and local public health departments to improve their surveillance of infectious diseases and disease outbreaks. The bills were introduced in the Senate Sept. 11 by Sens. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and in the House Sept. 15 by Reps. Lee Terry, R-Neb., Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y