[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2201 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2201

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend programs 
          relating to the prevention and control of injuries.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 20, 1993

  Mr. Kreidler (for himself, Mr. Waxman, Mr. Moorhead, Mr. Towns, Mr. 
 Greenwood, Mr. McDermott, and Mrs. Morella) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend programs 
          relating to the prevention and control of injuries.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Injury Prevention and Control 
Amendments of 1993''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF REQUIREMENTS WITH RESPECT TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 
              AND SEXUAL ASSAULT.

    Part K of title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
280b et seq.) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating sections 393 and 394 as sections 394 
        and 394A, respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after section 392 the following section:

                 ``domestic violence and sexual assault

    ``Sec. 393. With respect to activities that are authorized in 
sections 391 and 392, the Secretary, acting through the Director of the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall carry out such 
activities with respect to domestic violence and sexual assault. 
Activities authorized in the preceding sentence include--
            ``(1) collecting data relating to the incidence of such 
        violence and assault;
            ``(2) making grants to public and nonprofit private 
        entities for the evaluation of programs whose purpose is to 
        prevent such violence and assault;
            ``(3) providing to the public information and education on 
        such violence and assault;
            ``(4) training health care providers to identify 
        individuals whose medical condition or statements indicate that 
        the individuals are victims of such violence or assault, and to 
        refer the individuals to entities that provide services 
        regarding such violence and assault; and
            ``(5) making grants to public and nonprofit private 
        entities for demonstration projects with respect to such 
        violence and assault.''.

SEC. 3. ADVISORY COMMITTEE; REPORTS.

    Section 394 of the Public Health Service Act, as redesigned by 
section 2(1) of this Act, is amended to read as follows:

                          ``general provisions

    ``Sec. 394. (a) The Secretary, acting through the Director of the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall establish an advisory 
committee to advise the Secretary and such Director with respect to the 
prevention and control of injuries.
    ``(b) Not later than February 1 of 1994 and of every second year 
thereafter, the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, shall submit to the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, and to the 
Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate, a report 
describing the activities carried out under this part during the 
preceding 2 fiscal years. Such report shall include a description of 
such activities that were carried out with respect to domestic violence 
and sexual assault and with respect to rural areas.''.

SEC. 4. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

    (a) Terminology.--Part K of title III of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C. 280b et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in the heading for such part, by striking ``Injury 
        Control'' and inserting ``Prevention and Control of Injuries''; 
        and
            (2) in section 392--
                    (A) in the heading for such section, by inserting 
                ``prevention and'' before ``control activities'';
                    (B) in subsection (a)(1), by inserting ``and 
                control'' after ``prevention''; and
                    (C) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``injuries 
                and injury control'' and inserting ``the prevention and 
                control of injuries''.
    (b) Provisions Relating to Public Law 102-531.--Part K of title III 
of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280b et seq.), as amended 
by section 301 of Public Law 102-531 (106 Stat. 3482), is amended--
            (1) in section 392(b)(2), by striking ``to promote injury 
        control'' and all that follows and inserting ``to promote 
        activities regarding the prevention and control of injuries; 
        and''; and
            (2) in section 391(b), by adding at the end the following 
        sentence: ``In carrying out the preceding sentence, the 
        Secretary shall disseminate such information to the public, 
        including through elementary and secondary schools.''.

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 394A of the Public Health Service Act, as redesignated by 
section 2(1) of this Act, is amended by striking ``To carry out'' and 
all that follows and inserting the following: ``For the purpose of 
carrying out this part, there are authorized to be appropriated 
$50,000,000 for fiscal year 1994, and such sums as may be necessary for 
each of the fiscal years 1995 through 1998.''.

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