[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1478 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1478

 To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an 
    agreement with the National Academy of Medicine under which the 
   National Academy agrees to conduct a one-year study assessing the 
 effectiveness of current vital statistics reporting and data sharing 
   between State, local, Tribal, and Federal agencies, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 2, 2021

   Mr. Taylor (for himself, Ms. Castor of Florida, and Mr. Schrader) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an 
    agreement with the National Academy of Medicine under which the 
   National Academy agrees to conduct a one-year study assessing the 
 effectiveness of current vital statistics reporting and data sharing 
   between State, local, Tribal, and Federal agencies, 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 ``Vital Standardization of Thoughtful 
Administrative Techniques and Statistics Act of 2021'' or the ``Vital 
STATS Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. STUDY ON EFFECTIVENESS OF VITAL STATISTICS REPORTING.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Medicine under 
which the National Academy agrees to conduct a one-year study assessing 
the effectiveness of current vital statistics reporting and data 
sharing between State, local, Tribal, and Federal agencies and the 
degree to which there is divergence between State, local, Tribal, and 
Federal vital statistics reporting.
    (b) Report.--The agreement entered into under subsection (a) shall 
require the National Academy of Medicine to, not later 1 year after the 
date on which the agreement is entered into, to submit to Congress a 
report containing the findings of the study conducted pursuant to such 
subsection. Such report shall include recommendations with respect to--
            (1) coordination and standardization of State, local, 
        Tribal, and Federal vital statistics reporting methods, 
        including the efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency of 
        such reporting; and
            (2) the feasibility of setting national standards for death 
        reporting and collecting vital statistics.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $1,000,000, to remain available 
until expended.
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