[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4351 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4351

To require States and hospitals to report COVID-19 health data directly 
           to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 29, 2020

 Mr. Whitehouse (for himself, Mrs. Feinstein, and Mr. Reed) 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 require States and hospitals to report COVID-19 health data directly 
           to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    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 ``Transparent Reporting and Use of 
Statistics in the Transmission of Coronavirus Data Collection'' or the 
``TRUST CDC Act''.

SEC. 2. SHARING OF COVID-19 HEALTH DATA.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding the updates to the guidance of the 
White House Coronavirus Task Force entitled, ``COVID-19 Guidance for 
Hospital Reporting and FAQs For Hospitals, Hospital Laboratory, and 
Acute Care Facility Data Reporting'', issued on July 10, 2020, States 
and hospitals required to report data with respect to COVID-19 pursuant 
to such guidance shall report such information directly to the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, and shall not be required to report 
such data to the Department of Health and Human Services as described 
in such updates.
    (b) Public Posting of Data; Updates.--The Director of the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention shall--
            (1) not later than 7 days after the date of enactment of 
        this Act, reinstate the website of such agency containing 
        COVID-19 data, including the number of cases, deaths, and 
        diagnostic and serologic tests per State; and
            (2) update such data on such website daily thereafter.
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