[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1647 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1647

   To amend title V of the Social Security Act to extend funding for 
  family-to-family health information centers, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                 May 23 (legislative day, May 22), 2019

 Mr. Grassley (for himself and Mr. Menendez) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title V of the Social Security Act to extend funding for 
  family-to-family health information centers, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Supporting Family-to-Family Health 
Information Centers Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that family-to-family health information centers--
            (1) assist families of children with disabilities or 
        special health care needs to improve the well-being of 
        children;
            (2) provide information to families regarding resources 
        available to help children with disabilities or special health 
        care needs;
            (3) work with representatives of health care organizations 
        to facilitate collaboration between families of such children 
        and professionals and organizations in the health care system;
            (4) since fiscal year 2007, the first year the Secretary of 
        Health and Human Services began to develop and support such 
        centers, they have spread to the extent that family-to-family 
        information centers now operate in all 50 States; and
            (5) since fiscal year 2018, these centers have been, and 
        continue to be, developed in the territories and for Indian 
        tribes.

SEC. 3. EXTENSION FOR FAMILY-TO-FAMILY HEALTH INFORMATION CENTERS.

    Section 501(c) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 701(c)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(A)(vii), by striking ``and 2019'' and 
        inserting ``through 2024''; and
            (2) in paragraph (3)(C), by striking ``fiscal years 2018 
        and 2019'' and inserting ``fiscal year 2018 and each fiscal 
        year thereafter''.
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