[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4982 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4982

  To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for treatment of 
 certain respiratory protective devices as covered countermeasures for 
 purposes of targeted liability protections for pandemic and epidemic 
     products and security countermeasures, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 5, 2019

  Mr. Bacon (for himself, Mr. Langevin, and Mr. Tonko) 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 provide for treatment of 
 certain respiratory protective devices as covered countermeasures for 
 purposes of targeted liability protections for pandemic and epidemic 
     products and security countermeasures, 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 ``Health Care Workforce Protection Act 
of 2019''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF RESPIRATORY PROTECTIVE DEVICES AS COVERED 
              COUNTERMEASURES.

    Section 319F-3(i)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
247d-6d(i)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) a respiratory protective device that is 
                approved under part 84 of title 42, Code of Federal 
                Regulations (or successor regulations).''.
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