[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3334 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3334

   To amend the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of 
    Health and Human Services, acting through the Center for Health 
     Statistics, to allocate such sums as may be necessary for the 
       collection of statistics from enhanced birth certificates.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2009

  Mr. Cohen 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 direct the Secretary of 
    Health and Human Services, acting through the Center for Health 
     Statistics, to allocate such sums as may be necessary for the 
       collection of statistics from enhanced birth certificates.

    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 ``Enhanced Birth Certificate Research 
Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. COLLECTION OF STATISTICS FROM ENHANCED BIRTH CERTIFICATES.

    Subsection (n) of section 306 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 242k) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(4) Of the amount appropriated for the Center each fiscal year, 
the Secretary, acting through the Center, shall use such funds as may 
be necessary to collect statistics from enhanced birth certificates. In 
carrying out the preceding sentence, the Secretary shall give priority 
to collecting statistics on infant mortality.''.
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