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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 9007 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health 

and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, to conduct and support research and 

public health activities with respect to diabetes in minority populations, 

and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 17, 2020 

Mr. GARCI ́A of Illinois introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through 

the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, to conduct and support research and public 

health activities with respect to diabetes in minority populations, 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, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Inclusive Diabetes Re5 search and Education Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES. 

2 Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act 

3 (42 U.S.C. 243 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 

4 the following new section: 

5 ‘‘SEC. 317V. DIABETES IN MINORITY POPULATIONS. 

6 ‘‘(a) RESEARCH AND OTHER ACTIVITIES.— 

7 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting 

8 through the Director of the Centers for Disease 

9 Control and Prevention, shall conduct and support 

10 research and public health activities with respect to 

11 diabetes in minority populations. 

12 ‘‘(2) CERTAIN ACTIVITIES.—Activities under 

13 paragraph (1) regarding diabetes in minority popu14 lations shall include the following: 

15 ‘‘(A) Further enhancing the National 

16 Health and Nutrition Examination Survey by 

17 oversampling Asian Americans, Native Hawai18 ians, and Pacific Islanders in appropriate geo19 graphic areas to better determine the preva20 lence of diabetes in such populations as well as 

21 to improve the data collection of diabetes pene22 tration disaggregated into major ethnic groups 

23 within such populations. The Secretary shall en24 sure that any such oversampling does not re25 duce the oversampling of other minority popuVerDate Sep 11 2014 23:00 Jan 02, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H9007.IH H9007

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1 lations including African-American and Latino 

2 populations. 

3 ‘‘(B) Through the Division of Diabetes 

4 Translation— 

5 ‘‘(i) providing for prevention research 

6 to better understand how to influence 

7 health care systems changes to improve 

8 quality of care being delivered to such pop9 ulations; 

10 ‘‘(ii) carrying out model demonstra11 tion projects to design, implement, and 

12 evaluate effective diabetes prevention and 

13 control interventions for minority popu14 lations, including culturally appropriate 

15 community-based interventions; 

16 ‘‘(iii) developing and implementing a 

17 strategic plan to reduce diabetes in minor18 ity populations through applied research to 

19 reduce disparities and culturally and lin20 guistically appropriate community-based 

21 interventions; 

22 ‘‘(iv) supporting, through the national 

23 diabetes prevention program under section 

24 399V–3, diabetes prevention program sites 


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1 in underserved regions highly impacted by 

2 diabetes; and 

3 ‘‘(v) implementing, through the na4 tional diabetes prevention program under 

5 section 399V–3, a demonstration program 

6 developing new metrics measuring health 

7 outcomes related to diabetes that can be 

8 stratified by specific minority populations. 

9 ‘‘(b) EDUCATION.—The Secretary, acting through 

10 the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Pre11 vention, shall direct the Division of Diabetes Translation 

12 to conduct and support both programs to educate the pub13 lic on diabetes in minority populations and programs to 

14 educate minority populations about the causes and effects 

15 of diabetes. 

16 ‘‘(c) DIABETES; HEALTH PROMOTION, PREVENTION

17 ACTIVITIES, AND ACCESS.—The Secretary, acting through 

18 the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Pre19 vention and the National Diabetes Education Program, 

20 shall conduct and support programs to educate specific 

21 minority populations through culturally appropriate and 

22 linguistically appropriate information campaigns about 

23 prevention of, and managing, diabetes. 


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1 ‘‘(d) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the 

2 term ‘minority population’ means a racial and ethnic mi3 nority group, as defined in section 1707.’’. 

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