[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
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[H.R. 1098 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 1098


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 25, 2014

     Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 AN ACT


 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize certain programs 
       relating to traumatic brain injury and to trauma research.

    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 ``Traumatic Brain Injury 
Reauthorization Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. CDC PROGRAMS FOR PREVENTION AND SURVEILLANCE OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN 
              INJURY.

    (a) Prevention.--Section 393B(b)(3) of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C. 280b-1c(b)(3)) is amended by striking ``health-status 
goals for 2010, commonly referred to as Healthy People 2010'' and 
inserting ``health-status goals for 2020, commonly referred to as 
Healthy People 2020''.
    (b) Surveillance.--Subsection (b) of section 393C of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280b-1d) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(b) Not later than'' and inserting the 
        following:
    ``(b) Reports.--
            ``(1) Initial report.--Not later than''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Subsequent report.--Not later than 24 months after 
        the date of enactment of the Traumatic Brain Injury 
        Reauthorization Act of 2014, the Secretary, acting through the 
        Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 
        the Director of the National Institutes of Health and in 
        consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of 
        Veterans Affairs, shall submit to the relevant committees of 
        Congress a report that--
                    ``(A) identifies which recommendations in the 
                report under paragraph (1) have been adopted and which 
                recommendations in such report have not been adopted; 
                and
                    ``(B) includes a description of planned activities 
                to address each recommendation in such report that has 
                not been adopted.''.
    (c) Funding.--Section 394A of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 280b-3) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' after ``1994,'';
            (2) by striking the second period at the end; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following: ``Of the amounts 
        made available to carry out this part for each of fiscal years 
        2015 through 2019, there is authorized to be appropriated 
        $6,100,000 to carry out sections 393B and 393C.''.

SEC. 3. STATE GRANTS FOR PROJECTS REGARDING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY.

    Section 1252 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300d-52) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``, acting through the 
        Administrator of the Health Resources and Services 
        Administration,'';
            (2) in paragraphs (1)(A)(i) and (3)(E) of subsection (f), 
        by striking ``brain injury'' and inserting ``traumatic brain 
        injury'';
            (3) in subsection (h), by striking the comma after ``under 
        this section'' and inserting a comma before ``including''; and
            (4) by amending subsection (j) to read as follows:
    ``(j) Authorization of Appropriations.--For carrying out this 
section and section 1253, there is authorized to be appropriated 
$9,760,000 for each of fiscal years 2015 through 2019.''.

SEC. 4. STATE GRANTS FOR PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY SERVICES.

    Section 1253 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300d-53) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``, acting through the 
        Administrator of the Health Resources and Services 
        Administration (referred to in this section as the 
        `Administrator'),'';
            (2) in subsections (c), (d)(1), (e)(1), (e)(4), (g), (h), 
        and (j)(1), by striking ``Administrator'' each place it appears 
        and inserting ``Secretary'';
            (3) in subsection (h)--
                    (A) by striking the subsection heading and 
                inserting ``Reporting'';
                    (B) by striking ``Each protection and advocacy 
                system'' and inserting the following:
            ``(1) Reports by systems.--Each protection and advocacy 
        system''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Report by secretary.--Not later than 1 year after the 
        date of enactment of the Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization 
        Act of 2014, the Secretary shall prepare and submit to the 
        appropriate committees of Congress a report describing the 
        services and activities carried out under this section during 
        the period for which the report is being prepared.''.
            (4) in subsection (i)--
                    (A) by striking ``Administrator of the Health 
                Resources and Services Administration'' and inserting 
                ``Secretary''; and
                    (B) by striking ``by the Administrator'' and 
                inserting ``by the Secretary'';
            (5) in subsection (k), by striking ``subtitle C'' and 
        inserting ``subtitle C of title I'';
            (6) by striking subsection (l) (relating to authorization 
        of appropriations); and
            (7) by redesignating subsection (m) as subsection (l).

            Passed the House of Representatives June 24, 2014.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.