[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2817 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2817

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a national system 
    to collect health-related data on fatalities caused by firearms.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 1993

Mrs. Schroeder 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 provide for a national system 
    to collect health-related data on fatalities caused by firearms.

    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 ``Firearm Fatality Reporting System 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM FOR HEALTH-RELATED DATA ON FIREARM 
              FATALITIES.

    Part J of title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
280b et seq.), as redesignated by section 2008(i)(2)(B) of Public Law 
103-43, is amended by inserting after section 392 the following 
section:

    ``national system for health-related data on firearm fatalities

    ``Sec. 392A. (a) In General.--The Secretary, acting through the 
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall 
cooperate with the States for the purpose of establishing, to the 
extent practicable, a national system to collect, organize, and make 
available such data relating to fatalities caused by firearms as the 
Secretary determines may be useful to public officials in making 
decisions on the protection of the public health with respect to 
firearms.
    ``(b) Uniform Criteria Regarding Collection of Data.--In carrying 
out subsection (a), the Secretary, in order to ensure the utility of 
the data collected under such subsection, shall develop criteria for 
uniform practices in the collection and organization of the data.
    ``(c) Certain Categories of Data.--The Secretary shall seek to 
ensure that, with respect to the fatality involved, the data collected 
under subsection (a) includes the following:
            ``(1) With respect to the firearm, the following: Type, 
        make, model, and caliber.
            ``(2) With respect to the intent to kill, a specification 
        of which of the following categories applies: A homicide, a 
        suicide, or an accident; or it is unknown which of such 
        categories applies.
            ``(3) Demographic characteristics of the victim.
            ``(4) Demographic characteristics of the individual who 
        discharged the firearm.
            ``(5) With respect to the type of setting in which the 
        shooting occurred, a specification of which of the following 
        categories applies: At the home of the victim, at the workplace 
        of the victim, while the victim was commuting, or at a public 
        accommodation, or in such other types of settings as the 
        Secretary may identify.
    ``(d) Cooperation Among Federal Agencies.--The heads of Federal 
agencies shall cooperate in order to ensure that the Federal Government 
does not carry out duplicative activities in collecting the data 
described in subsection (a).
    ``(e) Biennial Report.--Not later than February 1 of 1996 and of 
every second year thereafter, the Secretary 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 
that, with respect to implications for the public health--
            ``(1) contains an analysis of the data collected under 
        subsection (a); and
            ``(2) contains such recommendations of the Secretary for 
        administrative and legislative initiatives regarding such 
        analysis as the Secretary determines to be appropriate.''.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 394 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280b-3) is 
amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a)'' before ``To carry out''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following subsection:
    ``(b) To carry out section 392A, there are authorized to be 
appropriated $3,500,000 for fiscal year 1994, and such sums as may be 
necessary for each of the fiscal years 1995 and 1996.''.

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