Program There is authorized to be appropriated $735,000,000 for fiscal year 2024 and each subsequent fiscal year for the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (g) Infectious Disease Rapid Response Reserve Fund There is authorized to be appropriated $35,000,000 for fiscal year 2024 and each subsequent fiscal year for the Infectious Disease Rapid Response Reserve Fund of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (h) Data Modernization Initiative There is authorized to be appropriated $175,000,000 for fiscal year 2024 and each subsequent fiscal year for the Public Health Data Modernization Initiative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (i) Health defense operations budget matters (1) Designation Section 251(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (H) Health defense operations (i) If, for any fiscal year, appropriations for discretionary accounts are enacted that the Congress designates in statute on an account-by-account basis as being for health defense operations, then the adjustment for that fiscal year shall be the total of such appropriations for that fiscal year. (ii) Any report or explanatory statement accompanying an appropriations Act that contains an account with amounts that are designated as being for health defense operations pursuant to clause (i) shall specify each program, project, or activity that will be funded by such amounts, and a specific dollar amount provided for each such program, project, or activity. . (2) Professional bypass budget Title IV of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 281 et seq. ) is amended by inserting after section 402B the following: 402C. Health defense operations professional bypass budget (a) In general For fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Director of the National Institutes of Health, and the Assistant