[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3364 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3364

  To provide for a study on the transmission of respiratory syncytial 
         virus transmission in schools and daycare facilities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 9, 2021

  Mr. Kennedy 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 provide for a study on the transmission of respiratory syncytial 
         virus transmission in schools and daycare facilities.

    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 ``Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) 
Impact Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDING.

    Congress finds that, according to the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention, each year in the United States, respiratory syncytial 
virus leads to nearly 2,100,000 outpatient visits from children under 
the age of 5 years old, leading to approximately 58,000 
hospitalizations within this population.

SEC. 3. STUDY ON RSV TRANSMISSION.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall seek to enter into 
a contract with the National Academy of Sciences, under which such 
National Academy studies respiratory syncytial virus transmission in 
schools and daycare facilities and the impact such virus has on the 
economy, including through parents' absences from work, and reports to 
Congress on the findings of such study.
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