Health Education Labor and Pensions Bill VI
S. 1486
A BILL
To
ensure that the United States is prepared for an attack using biological or
chemical weapons.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the `Biological and Chemical Weapons Preparedness Act of 2001'..
`The Congress declares that the National Biological or Chemical Terrorism Preparedness Goals (referred to in this title as the `Preparedness Goals') are the following:
`(1) FIRST RESPONDERS- By the year 2010, each first-responder (including law enforcement, fire, rescue, emergency medical services, emergency management, medical, and allied health professionals) will have adequate capacity, including coordination with other public and private stakeholders, response training, resources, technology, and workforce, necessary to effectively prepare for, and respond to, a biological or chemical terrorist attack.
`(2) PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENTS- By the year 2010, each public health department will have adequate capacity, including coordination with other public and private stakeholders, response training, resources, technology, and workforce, necessary to effectively prepare for, and respond to, a biological or chemical terrorist attack.
`(3) DISEASE SURVEILLANCE- By the year 2010, each State and local government will participate in, and have uninterrupted access to, sophisticated, electronic disease surveillance, interoperable networks and data protocols, information exchange, and immediate access to medical data, treatment guidelines, and health alerts.
`(4) LABORATORY READINESS- By the year 2010, Federal, State, local, and public and private stakeholders will collectively ensure laboratory readiness for a biological or chemical attack, including the development of a nationwide laboratory response system, response training, capacity building, and coordination assistance.
`(5) EMERGENCY ROOMS- By the year 2010, local emergency rooms will have adequate capacity, including coordination with other public and private stakeholders, response training, resources, technology, workforce, surge capacity, biocontainment, and decontamination capabilities necessary to effectively prepare for, and respond to, a biological or chemical terrorist attack.
`(6) AGRICULTURAL BIOLOGICAL OR CHEMICAL ATTACKS- By the year 2010, each State and local government will have adequate capacity, including coordination with other public and private stakeholders, response training, resources, technology, and workforce, necessary to effectively prepare for, and respond to, an agricultural biological or chemical terrorist attack.
`(7) HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH WORKFORCE- By the year 2010, Federal, State, and local stakeholders will collectively ensure health care workforce readiness for a biological or chemical attack, including efforts to expand and strengthen the health care and public health workforce in key biopreparedness priority workforce areas as needed in an emergency.
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