[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4906 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4906

  To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the National 
  Neurological Conditions Surveillance System, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 21, 2022

 Mr. Murphy (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen, and Mr. Cassidy) 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 amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the National 
  Neurological Conditions Surveillance System, 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 ``National Neurological Conditions 
Surveillance System Reauthorization Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF NATIONAL NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS 
              SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM.

    (a) Reports to Congress.--Subsection (i) of section 399S-1 of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280g-7a) is amended to read as 
follows:
    ``(i) Implementation Report.--Not less than every 2 years after the 
date of enactment of the National Neurological Conditions Surveillance 
System Reauthorization Act of 2022, the Secretary shall submit to the 
Congress a report concerning the implementation of this section. Each 
such report shall include information on--
            ``(1) the development and maintenance of the National 
        Neurological Conditions Surveillance System;
            ``(2) the type of information collected by the surveillance 
        system;
            ``(3) the use and availability of such information, 
        including guidelines for such use;
            ``(4) the use and coordination of data sources that collect 
        or maintain information on neurological diseases; and
            ``(5) any upcoming expansions of the National Neurological 
        Conditions Surveillance System to collect information with 
        respect to additional neurological diseases.''.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 399S-1(k) of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280g-7a(k)) is amended by striking 
``$5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 through 2022'' and inserting 
``$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 and 2024, $15,000,000 for 
fiscal year 2025, and $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 and 
2027''.
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