[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6010 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6010

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the 
 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish a registry of 
 women who are diagnosed during pregnancy as having been infected with 
   Zika virus and the children of such women, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 13, 2016

 Mr. Bilirakis (for himself, Mr. Pierluisi, Mr. Posey, Mr. Sires, Mr. 
Curbelo of Florida, and Mr. Diaz-Balart) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the 
 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish a registry of 
 women who are diagnosed during pregnancy as having been infected with 
   Zika virus and the children of such women, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Zika Pregnancy and Infant Registry 
Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. ZIKA VIRUS PATIENT REGISTRY.

    Title III of the Public Health Service Act is amended by inserting 
after section 317T of such Act (42 U.S.C. 247b-22) the following:

``SEC. 317U. ZIKA VIRUS PATIENT REGISTRY.

    ``(a) In General.--The Director of the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention (in this section referred to as the `Director') shall 
establish and maintain a registry of--
            ``(1) women who are diagnosed during pregnancy as having 
        been infected with Zika virus (in this section referred to as 
        the `registry'); and
            ``(2) the children of such women.
    ``(b) Contents.--The registry--
            ``(1) shall include the identity of women and children 
        described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a); and
            ``(2) may include--
                    ``(A) any symptoms and other adverse events 
                experienced by such women and children that may be 
                associated with Zika virus; and
                    ``(B) other information pertaining to--
                            ``(i) the health of women described in 
                        subsection (a)(1) and monitoring and testing of 
                        such women during pregnancy;
                            ``(ii) the results of evaluation and 
                        testing at birth of children described in 
                        subsection (a)(2); and
                            ``(iii) the health and development of 
                        children described in subsection (a)(2) through 
                        the first five years of life or, at the 
                        Director's discretion, longer.
    ``(c) Availability of Information Only for Research.--The Director 
may make information in the registry available only for research.''.
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