COVID–19 Data Transparency Act

COVID-19 Data Transparency Act

This bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to standardize reporting by government health departments of COVID-19 data, including information related to hospital admissions, testing, contact tracing, and transmission rates.

In addition, the CDC must publicly post and periodically update this information on its website with individually identifiable information excluded.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7674 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7674

    To require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention to create a standardized method for State, Tribal, and local 
 health departments to report to the Centers with respect to COVID-19, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 20, 2020

Mr. Beyer (for himself, Ms. Sewell of Alabama, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, 
 Mr. Serrano, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. Horsford, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Perlmutter, 
  Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Cisneros, Ms. Dean, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. 
   Langevin, Ms. McCollum, Mrs. Axne, Ms. Porter, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. 
 Grijalva, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Gabbard, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Welch, 
 Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. Sablan, Ms. Sherrill, Ms. Spanberger, Mr. Gonzalez 
   of Texas, and Mr. Engel) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention to create a standardized method for State, Tribal, and local 
 health departments to report to the Centers with respect to COVID-19, 
                        and for other purposes.

    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 ``COVID-19 Data Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. STANDARDIZED METHOD FOR HEALTH DEPARTMENT REPORTING.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention shall create a standardized method for State, Tribal, and 
local health departments to report to the Centers with respect to 
COVID-19 the following:
            (1) Daily hospitalizations of patients in the respective 
        jurisdiction with a confirmed or presumed case of COVID-19.
            (2) Daily numbers of such patients in the intensive care 
        unit.
            (3) Daily numbers of such patients on ventilators.
            (4) How long such patients have been in the hospital.
            (5) Daily numbers of diagnostic and serological tests 
        administered for SARS-CoV-2 with respect to patients in the 
        respective jurisdiction, disaggregated by--
                    (A) the type of test; and
                    (B) the testing positivity rate of each type of 
                test.
            (6) The sensitivity and specificity of each such type of 
        test.
            (7) Daily numbers and percentages of contacts traced with 
        respect to patients in the respective jurisdiction.
            (8) The rate of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the 
        respective jurisdiction.
    (b) Posting by CDC.--The Director of the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention shall--
            (1) post the information described in paragraphs (1) 
        through (8) of subsection (a), to the extent such information 
        is in the possession of the Centers, on the public website of 
        the Centers, except that such posting shall exclude any 
        individually identifiable information; and
            (2) to the extent feasible disaggregate such information by 
        State, Tribal, and local jurisdiction.
    (c) Updates.--The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention--
            (1) shall, as appropriate, periodically update the method 
        posted under subsection (a); and
            (2) may revise and expand the reporting categories listed 
        in such subsection.
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