Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act

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Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act

Long title	An act to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to Public Health Security and all-hazards preparedness and response, and for other purposes.
Enacted by	the 109th United States Congress
Citations
Public law	109-417
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 3678 by Richard Burr (R–NC) on July 18, 2006 Committee consideration by United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 19, 2006

On December 19, 2006, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA), Public Law No. 109-417, was signed into law by President George W. Bush. First introduced in the House by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) and Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), PAHPA had broad implications for the United States Department of Health and Human Services's (HHS) preparedness and response activities. Among other things, the act amended the Public Health Service Act to establish within the department a new Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR); provided new authorities for a number of programs, including the advanced development and acquisitions of medical countermeasures; and called for the establishment of a quadrennial National Health Security Strategy.

The purpose of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act is "to improve the Nation's public health and medical preparedness and response capabilities for emergencies, whether deliberate, accidental, or natural."^[1]

The law was most recently reauthorized by Congress in 2013.^[2] After it lapsed, an amended version, the Pandemic All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act, was signed into law in June 2019.^[3]