[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 666 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 666

   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 the most recent versions of the Standard 
 Certificates of Live Birth and Death and the Standard Report of Fetal 
                                 Death.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 11, 2011

 Mr. Cohen (for himself, Mr. Conyers, and Mr. Butterfield) 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 the most recent versions of the Standard 
 Certificates of Live Birth and Death and the Standard Report of Fetal 
                                 Death.

    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 ``Birth Certificate Enhancement Act of 
2011''.

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 provide 
        such funds as may be necessary to support States in 
        implementing the most recent versions of the Standard 
        Certificates of Live Birth and Death and the Standard Report of 
        Fetal Death and purchasing data from these vital records. In 
        carrying out the preceding sentence, the Secretary shall give 
        priority to collecting statistics on infant mortality.''.
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