# Public Law 116–22 116th Congress 

To reauthorize certain programs under the Public Health Service Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to public health security and all-hazards preparedness and response, 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019’’. 

(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 

Sec. 2. References in Act. 

## TITLE I—STRENGTHENING THE NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY STRATEGY 

Sec. 101. National Health Security Strategy. 

Sec. 201. Improving benchmarks and standards for preparedness and response. 

Sec. 202. Amendments to preparedness and response programs. 

Sec. 203. Regional health care emergency preparedness and response systems. 

Sec. 204. Military and civilian partnership for trauma readiness. 

Sec. 205. Public health and health care system situational awareness and bio- surveillance capabilities. 

Sec. 206. Strengthening and supporting the public health emergency rapid re- sponse fund. 

Sec. 207. Improving all-hazards preparedness and response by public health emer- gency volunteers. 

Sec. 208. Clarifying State liability law for volunteer health care professionals. 

Sec. 209. Report on adequate national blood supply. 

Sec. 210. Report on the public health preparedness and response capabilities and capacities of hospitals, long-term care facilities, and other health care facilities. 

Sec. 301. Strengthening and assessing the emergency response workforce. 

Sec. 302. Health system infrastructure to improve preparedness and response. 

Sec. 303. Considerations for at-risk individuals. 

Sec. 304. Improving emergency preparedness and response considerations for chil- dren. 

Sec. 305. National advisory committees on disasters. 

Sec. 306. Guidance for participation in exercises and drills. 

Sec. 401. Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. 

Sec. 402. Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise. 

Sec. 403. Strategic National Stockpile. 

Sec. 404. Preparing for pandemic influenza, antimicrobial resistance, and other sig- nificant threats. 

## TITLE II—IMPROVING PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE 

## TITLE III—REACHING ALL COMMUNITIES 

## TITLE IV—PRIORITIZING A THREAT-BASED APPROACH 

# An Act 

June 24, 2019 

[S. 1379] 

Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019. 42 USC 201 note. 

