1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Medical Device Sterilization Challenge Act of 2019 . 2. Medical device sterilization challenges (a) Authority Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of Food and Drugs shall establish a program to be known as Medical Device Sterilization Challenge for carrying out prize competitions described in this section under section 24 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 ( 15 U.S.C. 3719 ) relating to sterilization of medical devices. (b) Prize competitions In carrying out the program, the Director shall provide for prize competitions, including at least one prize competition to seek solutions with respect to each of the following goals: (1) Reduction of the human health hazards associated with ethylene oxide sterilization, including through reduction of— (A) the exposure to workers in such facilities; and (B) environmental emissions of ethylene oxide. (2) Reduction of the amount of time required to effectively sterilize devices by a factor of 2 or more to sterilize the same type and number of devices over commonly-used ethylene oxide technology without a proportional increase in cost. (3) Achievement of rapid implementation of new sterilization agents or methods that minimize conversion costs without decreasing facility throughput. (4) Provision of new or improved approaches to measuring, monitoring, and controlling ethylene oxide emissions, including detection at very low levels. (5) Analysis of public health risks of emissions from currently-available data with respect to emissions of public health or provision of— (A) new or improved tools that use data to better model emissions over time at the regional or local scale