HR 4411 · 115th Congress 2017–2019, ended

American Students Abroad Act

Fact sheet

Latest action · Nov 17, 2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedNov 15, 2017
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

American Students Abroad Act

This bill directs the Department of State to make available to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for each calendar quarter a copy of the report issued by a U.S. embassy or consulate relating to the overseas death of a U.S. citizen.

The Public Health Service Act is amended to direct the CDC to expand its surveillance programs of U.S. citizen deaths abroad, including through the use of the reports made available pursuant to the Ravi Thackurdeen Travel Safety Act.

Cosponsors 1

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on May 17, 2018.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-NYYvette D. ClarkeMay 17, 2018

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Nov 17, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  2. Nov 15, 2017Introduced in House
  3. Nov 15, 2017Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Nov 15, 2017Introduced in House

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