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US. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-524
PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SUPPLIES
ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2023
MAY 23, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. McHENRY, from the Committee on Financial Services,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1166]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Financial Services, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1166) to enhance authorities under the Defense Produc-
tion Act of 1950 to respond to the public health emergencies, to
provide additional oversight of such authorities, and for other pur-
poses, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with
an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Public Health Emergency Medical Supplies En-
hancement Act of 2023.
SEC. 2. PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES.
(a) FUTURE PREPAREDNESS FOR HEALTH EMERGENCIES.-Section 702(14) of the
Defense Production Act of 1950 is amended by striking and critical infrastructure
protection and restoration and inserting , critical infrastructure protection and res-
toration, and public health emergency preparedness and response activities.
(b) PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY.-The Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C.
4501 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 711 the following:
SEC. 712. PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES.
(a) SCARCE AND CRITICAL MATERIALS.-During a public health emergency, any
medical equipment or supplies determined by the Secretary of Health and Human
Services or the Secretary of Homeland Security to be scarce and critical materials
essential to the national defense for purposes of section 101 may be deemed by the
President to be a scarce and critical material essential to the national defense for
purposes of section 101 and otherwise meet the requirements of section 101(b), and
funds available to implement this Act may be used for the purchase, production (in-
cluding the construction, repair, and retrofitting of government-owned facilities as
necessary), or distribution of such medical equipment or supplies.
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