[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1575 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1575

 To direct the Secretary of State to make available to the Director of 
   the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention copies of consular 
  reports of death of United States citizens, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 21, 2019

Mr. Portman (for himself and Ms. Warren) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of State to make available to the Director of 
   the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention copies of consular 
  reports of death of United States citizens, 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 ``American Students Abroad Act''.

SEC. 2. COPIES OF CONSULAR REPORTS OF DEATH OF U.S. CITIZENS ABROAD TO 
              BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND 
              PREVENTION.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of State shall make available to the 
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for each 
calendar quarter a copy of each report described in subsection (b) that 
is issued during the preceding calendar quarter.
    (b) Report Described.--The report described in this subsection is a 
report issued by a United States embassy or consulate relating to the 
death of a United States citizen in a foreign country upon receipt by 
the embassy or consulate of the foreign death certificate or finding of 
death by a local competent authority.

SEC. 3. SURVEILLANCE BY CDC OF DEATHS OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS ABROAD.

    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. SURVEILLANCE OF DEATHS OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS ABROAD.

    ``The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, shall expand and intensify the programs 
and activities of the Centers for surveillance of deaths of United 
States citizens occurring abroad, including through the use of the 
reports made available to the Director pursuant to section 2 of the 
American Students Abroad Act.''.
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