S.Amdt. 1706

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.”.