Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 120.djvu/2884

 PUBLIC LAW 109–417—DEC. 19, 2006

120 STAT. 2853

‘‘(c) DEPLOYMENT OF DETAILED OR ASSIGNED OFFICERS.—For purposes of pay, allowances, and benefits of a Commissioned Corps officer who is detailed or assigned to a Federal entity, the deployment of such officer by the Secretary in response to an urgent or emergency public health care need shall be deemed to be an authorized activity of the Federal entity to which the officer is detailed or assigned.’’. (c) PERSONNEL DEPLOYMENT AUTHORITY.— (1) PERSONNEL DETAILED.—Section 214 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 215) is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(e) Except with respect to the United States Coast Guard and the Department of Defense, and except as provided in agreements negotiated with officials at agencies where officers of the Commissioned Corps may be assigned, the Secretary shall have the sole authority to deploy any Commissioned Corps officer assigned under this section to an entity outside of the Department of Health and Human Services for service under the Secretary’s direction in response to an urgent or emergency public health care need (as defined in section 203A(a)(5)).’’. (2) NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS.—Section 331(f) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254d(f)(1)) is amended by inserting before the period the following: ‘‘, except when such members are Commissioned Corps officers who entered into a contract with Secretary under section 338A or 338B after December 31, 2006 and when the Secretary determines that exercising the authority provided under section 214 or 216 with respect to any such officer to would not cause unreasonable disruption to health care services provided in the community in which such officer is providing health care services’’.

TITLE III—ALL-HAZARDS MEDICAL SURGE CAPACITY SEC. 301. NATIONAL DISASTER MEDICAL SYSTEM.

(a) NATIONAL DISASTER MEDICAL SYSTEM.—Section 2812 of subtitle B of title XXVIII of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300hh–11 et seq.), as redesignated by section 102, is amended— (1) by striking the section heading and inserting ‘‘NATIONAL DISASTER MEDICAL SYSTEM’’; (2) by striking subsection (a); (3) by redesignating subsections (b) through (h) as subsections (a) through (g); (4) in subsection (a), as so redesignated— (A) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency’’ and inserting ‘‘Department of Homeland Security’’; and (B) in paragraph (3)(C), by striking ‘‘Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002’’ and inserting ‘‘Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act’’; (5) in subsection (b), as so redesignated, by— (A) striking the subsection heading and inserting ‘‘MODIFICATIONS’’; (B) redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and

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