Appendix C: Key Legislative Authorities
The Public Health Service Act (42 U.S. Code), notably the below Sections:
- Sec. 2811-1. PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES ENTERPRISE
Relevant Executive Orders
- EO 13676: Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
- EO 13985: Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through the Federal Government
- EO 13988: Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation
- EO 13994: Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats
- EO 13995: Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery
- EO 13996: Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats
- EO 13997: Improving and Expanding Access to Care and Treatments for COVID-19
- EO 14001: A Sustainable Public Health Supply Chain
- EO 14005: Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America's Workers
- EO 14017: America's Supply Chains
- EO 14036: Promoting Competition in the American Economy