1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preventing Illegal Laboratories and Protecting Public Health Act of 2024 . 2. Requiring certain sellers of highly infectious agents To keep a logbook of sales (a) Program The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, shall carry out a program under which the Secretary requires each regulated seller of a highly infectious agent to comply with the logbook requirements of subsection (c). (b) List of highly infectious agents (1) Development The Secretary shall develop and maintain a list of all agents that meet the definition of a highly infectious agent in subsection (e). (2) Initial list The Secretary shall develop the initial list required by paragraph (1) not later than 12 months after the date of enactment of this Act. (3) Periodic review The Secretary shall periodically review and update the list required by paragraph (1). (4) Consultation; consideration In developing and updating the list required by paragraph (1), the Secretary shall— (A) consult with relevant agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Homeland Security; (B) take into consideration the latest edition of Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health (or any successor to such publication); and (C) take into consideration the latest edition of NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules published by the National Institutes of Health (or any successor to such publication). (c) Logbook requirements (1) In general Each regulated seller shall maintain, in accordance with criteria issued by the Secretary, an electronic list (in this section referred to as a logbook ) of the sales by such seller of each highly infectious agent on the list under subsection (b) that identifies— (A) the agent by name