[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1814 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1814

 To amend title XXVIII of the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize 
       certain provisions relating to public health preparedness.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 7, 2011

Mrs. Gillibrand introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title XXVIII of the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize 
       certain provisions relating to public health preparedness.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Disaster Medical System 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH 
              PREPAREDNESS.

    Section 2812 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300hh-11) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(3), by adding at the end the 
        following:
                    ``(D) Administration.--The Secretary may determine 
                and pay claims for reimbursement for services under 
                subparagraph (A) directly or by contract providing for 
                payment in advance or by way of reimbursement.''; and
            (2) in subsection (g), by striking ``such sums as may be 
        necessary for each of the fiscal years 2007 through 2011'' and 
        inserting ``$56,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2012 through 
        2016''.
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