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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 7510 

To provide for a study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, 

and Medicine on the potential benefits on population health outcomes 

of incorporating into the Federal legislative process tools that measure 

the impacts of proposed legislation (including in areas outside of health 

care) on health and health disparities, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 9, 2020 

Mr. COX of California (for himself, Mr. TRONE, Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, Ms. 

BROWNLEY of California, Mr. ENGEL, and Ms. PORTER) introduced the 

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

To provide for a study by the National Academies of 

Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on the potential 

benefits on population health outcomes of incorporating 

into the Federal legislative process tools that measure 

the impacts of proposed legislation (including in areas 

outside of health care) on health and health disparities, 

and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Assimilating Health 

3 and Equity Assessments into Decision-making of 2020’’ 

4 or ‘‘AHEAD Act of 2020’’. 

5 SEC. 2. STUDY TO ASSESS THE VALUE OF USING TOOLS TO 

6 MEASURE THE IMPACTS OF PROPOSED FED7 ERAL LEGISLATION ON HEALTH AND HEALTH 

8 DISPARITIES. 

9 (a) STUDY.—The Secretary of Health and Human 

10 Services (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) 

11 shall enter into an arrangement with the National Acad12 emies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (or, if the 

13 National Academies decline to enter into such arrange14 ment, with another appropriate entity such as the Na15 tional Academy of Public Administration) under which, 

16 not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this 

17 Act, the National Academies (or other appropriate entity) 

18 will complete a study— 

19 (1) to examine the potential benefits on popu20 lation health outcomes of incorporating into the Fed21 eral legislative process tools that measure the im22 pacts of proposed legislation (including in areas out23 side of health care) on health and health disparities; 

24 (2) to formulate recommendations on inte25 grating such tools into the Federal legislative proc26 ess to achieve better population health outcomes; 


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1 (3) to formulate recommendations on how be2 havioral and nudge research on the health and eq3 uity effects of policies may translate into evaluative 

4 tools for policymakers; and 

5 (4) in consultation with the Comptroller Gen6 eral of the United States, the Director of the Con7 gressional Budget Office, and the Director of the 

8 Congressional Research Service, to formulate rec9 ommendations on how such tools should be incor10 porated into the Federal legislative process. 

11 (b) TOOLS TO BE CONSIDERED.—The tools consid12 ered under the study under subsection (a) shall include 

13 health impact assessments, and may include any other 

14 tools of analysis that analyze the potential impacts on 

15 health and health disparities of incorporating the findings 

16 of such reviews and analyses of proposed Federal legisla17 tion and accompanying budgetary scores. 

18 (c) SPECIFIC POPULATIONS TO BE CONSIDERED.— 

19 The study under subsection (a) shall consider the impacts 

20 described in such subsection on health and health dispari21 ties within specific populations including communities of 

22 color, youth, women, older adults, sexual and gender mi23 norities, individuals living in rural and Tribal commu24 nities, individuals living in regions with persistent poverty, 

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1 abilities, individuals who are homeless, and individuals in2 volved with the criminal justice system, among others. 

3 (d) REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after the date 

4 of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a re5 port to the Congress on the results of the study under 

6 subsection (a). 

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