[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2581 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2581

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a health survey 
        regarding Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2009

      Ms. Bordallo (for herself, Mr. Honda, Mr. Faleomavaega, Mr. 
    Abercrombie, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Al Green of Texas, and Mr. Sablan) 
 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 health survey 
        regarding Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders.

    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 ``Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific 
Islander Health Survey Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH SURVEY.

    Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 243 
et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 317T the following:

``SEC. 317U. NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH SURVEY.

    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary shall award a contract or grant to 
an entity to develop and conduct a health survey regarding Native 
Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders in the 50 States, the District of 
Columbia, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the 
Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau--
            ``(1) to identify the unmet health and health care needs of 
        such Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders; and
            ``(2) to establish baseline health information (to the 
        extent such information is lacking) to achieve equity in health 
        information for the Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander 
        community.
    ``(b) Targeting of Data Collection.--Efforts to collect data 
pursuant to this section shall be targeted to those States, the 
District of Columbia, territories, and affiliated Pacific jurisdictions 
with the highest concentrations of Native Hawaiians and other Pacific 
Islanders based on the regular decennial census conducted for 2010.
    ``(c) Analysis.--The Secretary shall award a contract or grant to 
an entity--
            ``(1) to analyze and prepare the data collected under this 
        section for distribution; and
            ``(2) to submit the data, analysis, and any corresponding 
        documents to the National Center for Health Statistics for 
        internal review.
    ``(d) Public Availability.--The Secretary shall, to the extent 
appropriate, make publically available the data, measures, and analysis 
collected or generated pursuant to this section.
    ``(e) Report.--Not later than the end of fiscal year 2015, the 
Secretary shall submit a report to the Congress on the activities 
carried out under this section and the data, measures, and analysis 
collected or generated pursuant to this section.
    ``(f) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this section, 
there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary 
for the period of fiscal years 2010 through 2015, of which not less 
than $8,000,000 shall be for carrying out subsection (c).''.
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