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The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act is drafted.

2001

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Within weeks of 9/11, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) commissions a draft of the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act.

The act is intended to strengthen the government's ability to respond to acts of bioterrorism and other outbreaks of disease. It will be criticized for failing to include checks and balances and being too broad, as it allows for the declaration of a public health emergency to be used to justify privacy violations and other rights abuses.

This will also impact foundation philanthropy requirements for organizations to have formal non-profits, and will put social justice organizations that have pro-Palestine campaigns at fisk of being defunded.