[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3458 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3458

    To provide for the development and dissemination of educational 
  materials about responding to terrorist events involving a nuclear, 
   biological, or chemical element, and to provide for an emergency 
                        medicine alert network.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 11, 2001

 Mr. Shadegg introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide for the development and dissemination of educational 
  materials about responding to terrorist events involving a nuclear, 
   biological, or chemical element, and to provide for an emergency 
                        medicine alert network.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DEVELOPMENT AND DISSEMINATION OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ABOUT 
              RESPONDING TO TERRORIST EVENTS INVOLVING A NUCLEAR, 
              BIOLOGICAL, OR CHEMICAL ELEMENT.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
(hereafter in this section referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall make 
a grant or enter into a contract with a private nonprofit organization 
(meeting criteria established by the Secretary) to--
            (1) develop materials for teaching to physicians, nurses, 
        and other appropriate health care personnel the elements of a 
        core curriculum for responding, at a preparedness level, to a 
        terrorist event involving a nuclear, biological, or chemical 
        element;
            (2) develop materials for teaching the elements of a core 
        curriculum for an awareness level course to prepare the general 
        public to respond to such an event;
            (3) develop a core curriculum and materials for planning by 
        local governments, legislators, hospital administrators, chiefs 
        of police and fire departments, and local business leaders to 
        respond to such an event; and
            (4) provide for disseminating and teaching the materials 
        described in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) by all appropriate 
        means, including telemedicine, long-distance learning, and CD-
        ROMs.
    (b) Use of Technical Advisory Panels.--An organization receiving a 
grant for the purposes specified in subsection (a) may utilize one or 
more technical advisory panels to assist in the preparation of the 
curricula and materials described in such subsection.
    (c) Criteria for Selection of Grant Recipient.--The criteria 
established by the Secretary under subsection (a) shall require that, 
in order to be eligible for a grant or contract under such subsection, 
an organization shall have recent experience with the development of a 
core curriculum for responding to a terrorist event involving a 
nuclear, biological, or chemical element.
    (d) Establish and Maintain Data Base.--Establish and maintain a 
data base containing up-to-date information on the identities and 
current addresses (geographic and electronic) of doctors, nurses and 
other health care personnel who have received training in the 
curriculum described in subsection (a)(1) in order to update these 
personnel as new information becomes available.
    (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated for fiscal year 2002 and for each fiscal year thereafter 
such sums as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out this 
section.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF DATA BASE AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE ALERT 
              NETWORK.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
(hereafter in this section referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall make 
a grant or enter into a contract with a private nonprofit organization 
(meeting criteria established by the Secretary) to--
            (1) establish and maintain a mechanism (which shall be 
        known as the ``emergency medicine alert network'') for use by 
        the Secretary, State departments of health, and other 
        appropriate entities in transmitting to such personnel--
                    (A) information about a terrorist event involving a 
                nuclear, biological, or chemical element;
                    (B) information about changes in the recommended 
                methods for such personnel to respond to such an event; 
                and
                    (C) that allows for coordinated sharing and 
                discussion of essential information in real time across 
                jurisdictional and geographic boundaries.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002 and 
each fiscal year thereafter for the purpose of carrying out this 
section.
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