Who it affects
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Public health departments
- Wastewater monitoring partners
In committeePublic health
SEWER Act
H.R. 766 · House bill · Introduced Jan. 28, 2025
The SEWER Act would give legal authority to the CDC’s wastewater monitoring program and require expanded disease monitoring involving public health departments.
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What it would do
- The bill would give legal authority to the CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System.
- It would require the CDC to expand and increase the program’s work monitoring disease-causing germs in wastewater.
- Required monitoring would include the viruses causing COVID-19, flu, mpox, dengue, West Nile, and RSV.
- The program provides funding and guidance to public health departments for wastewater monitoring.
- Health departments and other partners coordinate sampling and share data with the CDC.
Written with AI from the official summary by Congress's research office.
How South Carolina voted
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Groups that lobbied on it and gave to SC's members
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Official record
Official title, sponsor and status
- Official title
- To amend the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary to award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to eligible entities to establish, maintain, or improve activities related to the detection and monitoring of infectious diseases through wastewater for public health emergency preparedness and response purposes, and for other purposes.
- Sponsor
- Rep. Garcia, Robert (D-CA)
- Introduced
- Jan. 28, 2025
- Cosponsors
- 2
- Committees
- House Energy and Commerce Committee
- Latest action
- Jan. 28, 2025 · Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Official summary from the Congressional Research Service
Surveilling Effluent Water for Epidemic Response Act or the SEWER Act This bill provides statutory authority for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) program, which detects and monitors pathogens in wastewater. It requires the CDC to expand and intensify the activities of the NWSS, including with respect to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), influenza, mpox, dengue, West Nile virus, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The NWSS provides funding and guidance to public health departments for wastewater surveillance activities. Under the NWSS, health departments and other partners coordinate on wastewater surveillance at sampling sites and share data with the CDC. The NWSS was initially implemented to monitor SARS-CoV-2 and has since expanded to include influenza A, avian influenza A, mpox, and RSV.
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