3.0.0 2792 2023-01-13T04:48:19Z 2023-01-13T04:48:19Z Senate S S 2006-05-11 109 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2006-05-11T22:09:15Z 2006-05-11 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2006-05-11 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4476) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2006-05-11 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress G000445 Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH] Judd Gregg R NH N Health Agriculture and Food Agriculture in foreign trade Animal diseases Animals Biological warfare Communicable diseases Communication in medicine Continuing education Curricula Disaster relief Drug resistance in microorganisms Economics and Public Finance Education Emergency Management Emergency medicine Environmental Protection Federal aid to health facilities Foreign Trade and International Finance Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Health facilities Health information systems Health surveys Higher education Identification devices Imports Interstate relations Medicaid Medical education Medical laboratories Medical statistics Medical tests Medicare Performance measurement Poisons Public health administration Public health personnel Social Welfare Syndromes Health 00 2006-05-11 Introduced in Senate 2006-06-14T15:02:16Z Emergency Preparedness and Response Security, Accountability, and Flexibility Enhancement Act or the SAFE ACT - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise provisions relating to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies preparedness grants, including to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop measurable critical benchmarks and performance standards.

Authorizes the Secretary to develop a real-time surveillance program for collecting and reporting information on notifiable diseases and conditions (infectious diseases, environmental exposures or poisons, and other conditions, the real-time surveillance and control of which in the United States constitute a critical public health need). Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish a national electronic surveillance program for such diseases. Provides for a health alert in the case of a public health emergency or other circumstance requiring active surveillance.

Requires the Secretary to award grants to enable states to conduct surveillance and report with respect to notifiable diseases. Makes ineligible for certain funding states or health care providers that do not report notifiable diseases.

Allows grantees to use grant funds to develop benchmarks for meeting critical capacity for food or water borne disease detection and response.

Requires the Director to provide for the evaluation of the progress made by state and local governments in meeting the benchmarks established under this Act.

Requires the Secretary to establish procedures for the inspection, screening, and quarantine of live animals entering the United States for commercial purposes.

Requires the federal agency partners of the National Disaster Medical System to conduct a review of the National Disaster Medical System infrastructure.

]]> SAFE Act Display Title SAFE Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to revise and extend certain provisions of the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced SAFE Act Short Titles as Introduced Emergency Preparedness and Response Security, Accountability, and Flexibility Enhancement Act Introduced in Senate 2006-05-11T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s2792is/xml/BILLS-109s2792is.xml 2006-05-11 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.