This bill reauthorizes and updates parts of the Kay Hagan Tick Act. It makes wording changes to who may take part in related activities, adds language directing regional centers to increase capacity to identify, report, prevent, and respond to vector-borne diseases, and extends authorization dates for covered programs from 2021–2025 to 2026–2030.
The bill keeps in place programs that support regional centers of excellence and health department assistance for tick and other vector-borne diseases through 2030. These programs focus on surveillance, research, and building capacity to detect and respond to infections. For most people, the bill does not create immediate new services or requirements in the text provided.
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Supporters introduced the bill to continue and update the Kay Hagan Tick Act programs and to strengthen centers and health departments so they can better identify, report, prevent, and respond to tick-borne and other vector-borne diseases.
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