This bill prohibits the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from laying off or reorganizing staff at its foodborne illness surveillance and outbreak response divisions for one year following a multi-state or nationally significant foodborne illness outbreak. The prohibition applies to any staffing action that would remove one percent or more of employees in those divisions within a 60-day period. The legislation is designed to ensure that the CDC maintains sufficient personnel to rapidly respond to and contain foodborne illness outbreaks during the critical period following an outbreak event. The bill does not specify any new funding amounts or create new appropriations, but rather restricts the CDC's ability to reduce staffing in these specific divisions during outbreak response periods. No timeline for implementation beyond the one-year protection period is specified in the legislation.
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