Relative to public health laboratories.

This measure would encourage the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to amend the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments regulations to, and the Congress and the President of the United States to enact legislation that would, allow qualified nondoctoral, nonboard certified persons to serve as laboratory directors of local public health laboratories, if they are qualified to direct those laboratories under the law of the state in which the laboratory is located, with the express goals of ensuring adequate local public health laboratory support for response to communicable disease events, ensuring an adequate supply of local public health laboratory directors, and ensuring protection for the balance of the nation by increasing national security through adequate disease identification. This measure would encourage specified federal entities to also encourage CMS and the Congress and President of the United States to accomplish these goals in this manner.