NATIONAL STRATEGY.

SEC. 101. NATIONAL STRATEGY. Section 317E of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247b–6) is amended—(1) by striking the heading for the section and inserting the following: “national strategy for combating and eliminating tuberculosis”;(2) by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:“(b) Research and Development; Demonstration Projects; Education and Training.—With respect to the prevention, treatment, control, and elimination of tuberculosis, the Secretary may, directly or through grants to public or nonprofit private entities, carry out the following:“(1) Research, with priority given to research and development concerning latent tuberculosis infection, strains of tuberculosis resistant to drugs, and research concerning cases of tuberculosis that affect certain populations at risk for tuberculosis.“(2) Research and development and related activities to develop new tools for the elimination of tuberculosis, including drugs, diagnostics, vaccines, and public health interventions, such as directly observed therapy and non-pharmaceutical intervention, and methods to enhance detection and response to outbreaks of tuberculosis, including multidrug resistant tuberculosis. The Secretary is encouraged to give priority to programmatically relevant research so that new tools can be utilized in public health practice.“(3) Demonstration projects for—“(A) the development of regional capabilities to prevent, control, and eliminate tuberculosis and prevent multidrug resistant and extensively drug resistant strains of tuberculosis;“(B) the intensification of efforts to reduce health disparities in the incidence of tuberculosis;“(C) the intensification of efforts to control tuberculosis along the United States-Mexico border and among United States-Mexico binational populations, including through expansion of the scope and number of programs that—“(i) detect and treat binational cases of tuberculosis; and“(ii) treat high-risk cases of tuberculosis referred from Mexican health departments;“(D) the intensification of efforts to prevent, detect, and treat tuberculosis among foreign-born persons who are in the United States;122 STAT. 4197“(E) the intensification of efforts to prevent, detect, and treat tuberculosis among populations and settings documented as having a high risk for tuberculosis; and“(F) tuberculosis detection, control, and prevention.“(4) Public information and education activities.“(5) Education, training, clinical skills improvement activities, and workplace exposure prevention for health professionals, including allied health personnel and emergency response employees.“(6) Support of Centers to carry out activities under paragraphs (1) through (4).“(7) Collaboration with international organizations and foreign countries in carrying out such activities.“(8) Develop, enhance, and expand information technologies that support tuberculosis control including surveillance and database management systems with cross-jurisdictional capabilities, which shall conform to the standards and implementation specifications for such information technologies as recommended by the Secretary.”; and(3) in subsection (d), by adding at the end the following:“(3) Determination of amount of nonfederal contributions.—“(A) Priority.—In awarding grants under subsection (a) or (b), the Secretary shall give highest priority to an applicant that provides assurances that the applicant will contribute non-Federal funds to carry out activities under this section, which may be provided directly or through donations from public or private entities and may be in cash or in kind, including equipment or services.“(B) Federal amounts not to be included as contributions.—Amounts provided by the Federal Government, or services assisted or subsidized to any significant extent by the Federal Government, may not be included in determining the amount of non-Federal contributions as described in subparagraph (A).”.