(c) EVALUATION OF BARRIERS TO RAPID DELIVERY OF MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES.— 

(1) RAPID DELIVERY STUDY.—The Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response may conduct a study on issues that have the potential to adversely affect the handling and rapid delivery of medical countermeasures to individuals during public health emergencies occurring in the United States. 

(2) NOTICE TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 9 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response shall notify the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate if the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response does not plan to conduct the study under paragraph (1) and shall provide such committees a summary explanation for such decision. 

(3) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 1 year after the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response con- ducts the study under paragraph (1), such Assistant Secretary shall submit a report to the Committee on Energy and Com- merce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate con- taining the findings of such study. 

## SEC. 303. CONSIDERATIONS FOR AT-RISK INDIVIDUALS. 

(a) AT-RISK INDIVIDUALS IN THE NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY STRATEGY.—Section 2802(b)(4)(B) (42 U.S.C. 300hh–1(b)(4)(B)) is amended— 

(1) by striking ‘‘this section and sections 319C–1, 319F, and 319L,’’ and inserting ‘‘this Act,’’; and 

(b) COUNTERMEASURE CONSIDERATIONS.—Section 319L(c)(6) (42 U.S.C. 247d–7e(c)(6)) is amended— 

(2) by inserting ‘‘with relevant characteristics that warrant consideration during the process of researching and developing such countermeasures and products’’ before the period. 

(c) BIOSURVEILLANCE OF EMERGING PUBLIC HEALTH THREATS.— Section 2814 is amended— 

(1) in paragraph (7), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and inserting a semicolon; 

(2) in paragraph (8), by striking the period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

‘‘(9) facilitate coordination to ensure that, in implementing the situational awareness and biosurveillance network under section 319D, the Secretary considers incorporating data and information from Federal, State, local, Tribal, and territorial public health officials and entities relevant to detecting emerging public health threats that may affect at-risk individ- uals, such as pregnant and postpartum women and infants, including adverse health outcomes of such populations related to such emerging public health threats.’’. 

## SEC. 304. IMPROVING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE CONSIDERATIONS FOR CHILDREN. 

Part B of title III (42 U.S.C. 243 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 319D the following: 

(2) by striking ‘‘special’’ and inserting ‘‘access or functional’’. 

(1) by striking ‘‘elderly’’ and inserting ‘‘older adults’’; and 

(3) by adding at the end the following: 

Deadline. Summary. 

