[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 88 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3203]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1706. Mr. PAUL (for himself, Mr. Tuberville, and Mr. Marshall) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 
1260, to establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in 
the National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub 
program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, 
science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to 
establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

  At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. ENSURING THAT THE SCOPE OF CERTAIN REGULATIONS OF 
                   THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES IS 
                   LIMITED TO CONTROLLING COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.

       Section 361(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
     264(a)) is amended by striking ``The Surgeon General,'' and 
     all that follows through ``may be necessary.'' at the end and 
     inserting the following: ``To prevent the introduction, 
     transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign 
     countries into the States or possessions, or from one State 
     or possession into any other State or possession, the 
     Secretary may make and enforce regulations under this 
     section--
       ``(1) for the measures authorized under subsections (b) 
     through (d); or
       ``(2) to provide for such inspection, fumigation, 
     disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, or destruction 
     of animals or articles found to be so infected or 
     contaminated as to be sources of dangerous infection to human 
     beings.''.
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