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<meta><dc:title>118 HR 7189 ENR: To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize a national congenital heart disease research, surveillance, and awareness program, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>7189</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="118">One Hundred Eighteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="2">A T T  H  E S  E  C  O  N  D S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-four</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize a national congenital heart disease research, surveillance, and awareness program, and for other purposes.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula>
<section id="d1495e62" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/7189/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Congenital Heart Futures Reauthorization Act of 2024</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d1495e72" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/7189/s2" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num class="fontsize12" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>REAUTHORIZATION OF NATIONAL CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE RESEARCH, SURVEILLANCE, AND AWARENESS PROGRAM.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="x6989faac-7d3a-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" style="-uslm-lc:I650120">   Section 399V–2 of the Public Health Service Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s280g–13">42 U.S.C. 280g–13</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y6989faad-7d3a-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/7189/s2/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> subsections (f) and (g) as subsections (g) and (h), respectively;</content></paragraph><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y6989faae-7d3a-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/7189/s2/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after subsection (e) the following:<quotedContent><subsection class="indentDown1 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y698a6fdf-7d3a-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="f">“(f) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Report and Strategy<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y698a6fe0-7d3a-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">“(1) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Report<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><chapeau>Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of the Congenital Heart Futures Reauthorization Act of 2024, the Secretary shall issue a report to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate including the following:</chapeau><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y698a6fe1-7d3a-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">“(A) </num><content>A description of past and present activities of the Department of Health and Human Services to increase awareness and knowledge of the public with respect to congenital heart disease, including efforts to address the lifelong needs of congenital heart disease patients.</content></subparagraph><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y698a6fe2-7d3a-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">“(B) </num><content>An assessment of past and present activities of the Department of Health and Human Services to increase education and training of health care providers with respect to congenital heart disease, including efforts to address the lifelong needs of congenital heart disease patients.</content></subparagraph><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y698a6fe3-7d3a-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="C">“(C) </num><content>A description of the current workforce capacity in the United States of health care providers who treat adult patients living with congenital heart disease.</content></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y698a6fe4-7d3a-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">“(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Strategy<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y698a6fe5-7d3a-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">“(A) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Development; submission to congress<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><chapeau>Not later than 1 year after submitting the report required by paragraph (1), the Secretary shall develop and submit to Congress a strategy for improving efforts to increase awareness and knowledge of the public and education and training of health care providers with respect to congenital heart disease. Such strategy shall include findings and recommendations to—</chapeau><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y698a6fe6-7d3a-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" style="-uslm-lc:I650126"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="i">“(i) </num><content>address any public awareness and research gaps and opportunities related to the lifelong needs of congenital heart disease patients, including long-term health outcomes, quality of life, mental health, and health care utilization;</content></clause><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y698a6fe7-7d3a-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" style="-uslm-lc:I650126"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>address any shortages in the current workforce of health care providers who treat adult patients living with congenital heart disease, which may include strategies to enhance fellowship training programs or other continuing education programs; and</content></clause><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y698a6fe8-7d3a-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" style="-uslm-lc:I650126"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>foster collaboration and dissemination of information across Federal agencies, health care providers, researchers, and patient organizations.</content></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y698a6fe9-7d3a-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">“(B) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Consultation<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><content>In developing the strategy under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall, as appropriate, consult with qualified stakeholder groups, including patient organizations, health care professionals, research entities, health insurance providers, accrediting organizations, and relevant Federal agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the Health Resources and Services Administration.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent>; and</content></paragraph><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y698a6fea-7d3a-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/7189/s2/3" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><content>in subsection (h), as so redesignated, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2020 through 2024</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2025 through 2029</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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