[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3302 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3302

 Establishing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Emergency 
 Response Fund for the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention to provide assistance for a public health emergency, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 8, 2016

  Mrs. Boxer 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


 
 Establishing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Emergency 
 Response Fund for the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention to provide assistance for a public health emergency, 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 ``Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention Emergency Response Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION EMERGENCY RESPONSE 
              FUND.

    (a) Establishment.--There is established in the Treasury of the 
United States a fund to be known as the ``Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention Emergency Response Fund'' (referred to in this Act as 
the ``Fund'').
    (b) Obligations and Expenditures.--
            (1) Requirements.--Subject to the requirements under 
        subsection (d) and in accordance with paragraph (2), the 
        Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
        (referred to in this Act as the ``Director'') may obligate and 
        expend amounts in the Fund in the event the Director activates 
        emergency operations in response to a public health emergency 
        or potential public health emergency.
            (2) Purpose.--Subject to paragraph (1), the Director may 
        obligate and expend amounts in the Fund as necessary to detect, 
        prepare for, or respond to public health threats domestically 
        and abroad.
    (c) Coordination.--In obligating and expending amounts in the Fund, 
the Director may coordinate with other Federal and State entities, as 
appropriate, including through the awarding or transfer of amounts in 
the Fund to such other entities.
    (d) Congressional Oversight.--
            (1) Notice.--The Director shall submit to the President, 
        the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, and the 
        Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, 
        and any other relevant committee, notice of any plan to 
        obligate or expend amounts in the Fund.
            (2) Reporting.--Not less than every 60 days, the Director 
        shall provide regular briefings and submit a written report, to 
        the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, the Committee on 
        Appropriations of the House of Representatives, and any other 
        relevant committee, detailing the use of any amounts obligated 
        or expended from the Fund during the applicable fiscal year.
            (3) Requirements for amounts greater than $1,000,000,000.--
        The Director may obligate or expend amounts in the Fund that 
        are greater than $1,000,000,000 in any fiscal year in 
        accordance with a plan submitted under paragraph (1)--
                    (A) not prior to 30 days after submitting notice of 
                such plan; and
                    (B) only if a joint resolution of disapproval of 
                such plan is not enacted within 30 days of such 
                submission.

SEC. 3. APPROPRIATIONS OF UNOBLIGATED FUNDS.

    (a) In General.--There is appropriated to the Fund, out of any 
monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available 
until expended--
            (1) for fiscal year 2017, $2,000,000,000; and
            (2) for fiscal year 2018 and each fiscal year thereafter, 
        an amount calculated under subsection (b) for such fiscal year.
    (b) Calculation.--For purposes of subsection (a)(2), the amount 
calculated for a fiscal year under this subsection is the difference 
between $2,000,000,000 and the amount available in the Fund for such 
fiscal year.

SEC. 4. EMERGENCY DESIGNATIONS.

    (a) In General.--The amounts appropriated under section 3(a) are 
designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the 
Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)).
    (b) Designation in Senate.--In the Senate, the amounts appropriated 
under section 3(a) are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 403(a) of S. Con. Res. 13 (111th Congress), the concurrent 
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010.
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