H.R. 976 · 117th Congress
Ensuring Transparent Honest Information on COVID–19 Act
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Kathy Castor
- Introduced
- 2021-02-11
- Latest action
- 2021-02-12 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Summary
Ensuring Transparent Honest Information on COVID-19 Act or the ETHIC Act
This bill retroactively requires states and other jurisdictions to report specified COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a condition of receiving certain COVID-19 funding.
The bill also requires the Department of Health and Human Services to commission a study from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on public health data infrastructure.