Amendment to Executive Order 13295 Relating to Certain Influenza Viruses and Quarantinable Communicable Diseases
Signed April 1, 2005·George W. Bush·70 FR 17299
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Plain-language summary
Amends Executive Order 13295 by adding influenza caused by novel or reemergent viruses that are causing, or could cause, a pandemic to the list of quarantinable communicable diseases. The change, made on the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services in consultation with the Surgeon General, expands the diseases for which federal quarantine authority under the Public Health Service Act may be applied. The order states it creates no enforceable legal rights or benefits for any party against the federal government.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264(b)), it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
Amends: EO 13295, April 4, 2003
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13375 of April 1, 2005
Amendment to Executive Order 13295 Relating to Certain
Influenza Viruses and Quarantinable Communicable Diseases
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including section 361(b) of the Public Health
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264(b)), it is hereby ordered as
follows:
Section 1. Based upon the recommendation of the
Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation
with the Surgeon General, and for the purpose set forth
in section 1 of Executive Order 13295 of April 4, 2003,
section 1 of such order is amended by adding at the end
thereof the following new subsection:
“(c) Influenza caused by novel or reemergent influenza
viruses that are causing, or have the potential to
cause, a pandemic.”.
Sec. 2. This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, entities,
officers, employees or agents, or any other person.
(Presidential Sig.)B
THE WHITE HOUSE,
April 1, 2005.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed April 1, 2005. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.