[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2622 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2622

    To clarify the application of the appointment and confirmation 
 requirements for the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and 
                              Prevention.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 27, 2023

   Mr. Cruz introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
    To clarify the application of the appointment and confirmation 
 requirements for the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and 
                              Prevention.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Accountability for the CDC, 
improving Congressional Oversight, and Ratification of its Director 
Act'' or the ``ACCORD Act''.

SEC. 2. APPOINTMENT AND CONFIRMATION OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE CDC.

    Section 2101(b) of division FF of the Consolidated Appropriations 
Act, 2023 (Public Law 117-328) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: ``Any Director of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention that is in place on the day before such effective date shall 
be subject to the appointment requirements of such section 305(a), 
effective January 20, 2025.''.
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