[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3161 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3161

 To establish the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Emergency 
  Response Fund to provide assistance with respect to a public health 
                   emergency, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 28, 2018

   Mr. Brown 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 establish the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Emergency 
  Response Fund to provide assistance with respect to 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 2018''.

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.--Subject to subsection (d), 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 Level 1 emergency operations, 
as necessary to detect, prepare for, or respond to a natural or manmade 
disaster, disease outbreak, or other public health emergency, 
domestically or 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 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 frequently 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 60-day period.
            (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) only if a 
        joint resolution of disapproval of such plan is not enacted 
        within 30 days of such submission.
    (e) Appropriations.--
            (1) In general.--There is appropriated to the Fund, out of 
        any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to 
        remain available until expended--
                    (A) for fiscal year 2019, $2,000,000,000; and
                    (B) for fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year 
                thereafter, if the unobligated amount remaining in the 
                Fund on the first day of the applicable fiscal year is 
                less than $2,000,000,000, the amount equal to the 
                difference between $2,000,000,000 and the unobligated 
                amount remaining in the Fund on the first day of such 
                fiscal year.
            (2) Emergency designation.--
                    (A) Statutory paygo.--This subsection is 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) Senate designation.--In the Senate, this 
                subsection is designated as an emergency requirement 
                pursuant to section 4112(a) of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th 
                Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for 
                fiscal year 2018.
            (3) Limitation.--Amounts appropriated under this Act shall 
        supplement, and not supplant other Federal, State, and local 
        governmental amounts provided for public health response 
        activities, including amounts provided through any emergency 
        supplemental appropriations Act.
    (f) GAO Reports.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act and annually thereafter for 4 years, the Comptroller 
General of the United States shall submit a report to Congress on the 
Federal response to infectious disease outbreaks during the reporting 
period, best practices for emergency public health response and 
interagency coordination, the use of funding sources in public health 
emergency response, and the use of the Fund established by this Act.
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