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kind: "diff"
citation: "S. 849"
bill: "115-s-849"
heading: "Strengthening Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health Act"
from: "rs"
from_label: "Reported in Senate"
to: "es"
to_label: "Engrossed in Senate"
sections_amended: 2
sections_added: 0
sections_removed: 0
url: "https://uscodex.org/bills/115/s/849/changes/es"
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# S. 849 — what changed

S. 849, Strengthening Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health Act — 2 sections amended between Reported in Senate and Engrossed in Senate.

Edits are marked `<del>struck</del>` and `<ins>inserted</ins>`.

## Sec. 2 Reauthorization of Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health program

- Section 317S of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247b–21) is amended—
- (1) in subsection (a)(1)(B)—
  - (A) by inserting “including programs to address emerging infectious mosquito-borne diseases,” after “control programs,”; and
  - (B) by inserting “or improving existing control programs” before the period at the end;
- (2) in subsection (b)—
  - (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting “, including improvement,” after “operation”;
  - (B) in paragraph (2)—
    - (i) in subparagraph (A)—
      - (I) in clause (ii), by striking “or” at the end;
      - (II) in clause (iii), by striking the semicolon at the end and inserting “, including an emerging infectious mosquito-borne disease that presents a serious public health threat; or”; and
      - (III) by adding at the end the following:
        - “(iv) a public health emergency due to the incidence or prevalence of a mosquito-borne disease that presents a serious public health threat.”
    - (ii) in subparagraph (D), by inserting “or that demonstrates to the Secretary that the control program is consistent with existing State mosquito control <del>plans, </del><ins>plans </ins>or policies, or other applicable State preparedness plans” before the period at the end;
  - (C) in paragraph (4)(C), by striking “that extraordinary” and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting “that—
    - “(i) extraordinary economic conditions in the political subdivision or consortium of political subdivisions involved justify the waiver; or
    - “(ii) the geographical area covered by a political subdivision or consortium for a grant under paragraph (1) has an extreme <ins>mosquito control </ins>need due to—
    - “(I) the size or density of the <ins>potentially impacted </ins>human population;
    - “(II) the size or density of <del>the </del><ins>a </ins>mosquito <del>population; </del><ins>population that requires heightened control; </ins>or
    - “(III) the severity of the mosquito-borne disease, such that expected serious adverse health outcomes for the human population justify the waiver.”
  - (D) by amending paragraph (6) to read as follows:
    - “(6) Number of grants—A political subdivision or a consortium of political subdivisions may not receive more than one grant under paragraph (1).”
- (3) in subsection (f)—
  - (A) in paragraph (1), by striking <del>“$100,000,000 for </del><ins>“for </ins>fiscal year 2003, and such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2004 through 2007” and inserting <del>“$130,000,000 for </del><ins>“for </ins>each of fiscal years <del>2017 </del><ins>2018 </ins>through 2022”;
  - (B) in paragraph (2), by striking “the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002” and inserting “other medical and public health preparedness and response laws”; and
  - (C) in paragraph (3)—
    - (i) in the heading, by striking “2004” and inserting “2018”; and
    - (ii) by striking “2004” and inserting “2018”.

## Sec. 3 Epidemiology-laboratory capacity grants

- Section 2821 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300hh–31) is amended—
- (1) in subsection (a)(1), by inserting “, including mosquito and other vector-borne diseases,” after “infectious diseases”; and
- (2) in subsection (b), by striking “2010 through 2013” and inserting <del>“2017 </del><ins>“2018 </ins>through 2022”.