113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 1098 

AN ACT 

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

to trauma research. 

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 ‘‘Traumatic Brain In3 jury Reauthorization Act of 2014’’. 

4 SEC. 2. CDC PROGRAMS FOR PREVENTION AND SURVEIL5 LANCE OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY. 

6 (a) PREVENTION.—Section 393B(b)(3) of the Public 

7 Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280b–1c(b)(3)) is amended 

8 by striking ‘‘health-status goals for 2010, commonly re9 ferred to as Healthy People 2010’’ and inserting ‘‘health10 status goals for 2020, commonly referred to as Healthy 

11 People 2020’’. 

12 (b) SURVEILLANCE.—Subsection (b) of section 393C 

13 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280b–1d) is 

14 amended— 

15 (1) by striking ‘‘(b) Not later than’’ and insert16 ing the following: 

17 ‘‘(b) REPORTS.— 

18 ‘‘(1) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than’’; and 

19 (2) by adding at the end the following: 

20 ‘‘(2) SUBSEQUENT REPORT.—Not later than 24 

21 months after the date of enactment of the Trau22 matic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2014, the 

23 Secretary, acting through the Director of the Cen24 ters for Disease Control and Prevention and the Di25 rector of the National Institutes of Health and in 

26 consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the 
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1 Secretary of Veterans Affairs, shall submit to the 

2 relevant committees of Congress a report that— 

3 ‘‘(A) identifies which recommendations in 

4 the report under paragraph (1) have been 

5 adopted and which recommendations in such re6 port have not been adopted; and 

7 ‘‘(B) includes a description of planned ac8 tivities to address each recommendation in such 

9 report that has not been adopted.’’. 

10 (c) FUNDING.—Section 394A of the Public Health 

11 Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280b–3) is amended— 

12 (1) by striking ‘‘and’’ after ‘‘1994,’’; 

13 (2) by striking the second period at the end; 

14 and 

15 (3) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘Of the 

16 amounts made available to carry out this part for 

17 each of fiscal years 2015 through 2019, there is au18 thorized to be appropriated $6,100,000 to carry out 

19 sections 393B and 393C.’’. 

20 SEC. 3. STATE GRANTS FOR PROJECTS REGARDING TRAU21 MATIC BRAIN INJURY. 

22 Section 1252 of the Public Health Service Act (42 

23 U.S.C. 300d–52) is amended— 
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1 (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘, acting 

2 through the Administrator of the Health Resources 

3 and Services Administration,’’; 

4 (2) in paragraphs (1)(A)(i) and (3)(E) of sub5 section (f), by striking ‘‘brain injury’’ and inserting 

6 ‘‘traumatic brain injury’’; 

7 (3) in subsection (h), by striking the comma 

8 after ‘‘under this section’’ and inserting a comma 

9 before ‘‘including’’; and 

10 (4) by amending subsection (j) to read as fol11 lows: 

12 ‘‘(j) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For 

13 carrying out this section and section 1253, there is author14 ized to be appropriated $9,760,000 for each of fiscal years 

15 2015 through 2019.’’. 

16 SEC. 4. STATE GRANTS FOR PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY 

17 SERVICES. 

18 Section 1253 of the Public Health Service Act (42 

19 U.S.C. 300d–53) is amended— 

20 (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘, acting 

21 through the Administrator of the Health Resources 

22 and Services Administration (referred to in this sec23 tion as the ‘Administrator’),’’; 
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1 (2) in subsections (c), (d)(1), (e)(1), (e)(4), (g), 

2 (h), and (j)(1), by striking ‘‘Administrator’’ each 

3 place it appears and inserting ‘‘Secretary’’; 

4 (3) in subsection (h)— 

5 (A) by striking the subsection heading and 

6 inserting ‘‘REPORTING’’; 

7 (B) by striking ‘‘Each protection and advo8 cacy system’’ and inserting the following: 

9 ‘‘(1) REPORTS BY SYSTEMS.—Each protection 

10 and advocacy system’’; and 

11 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

12 ‘‘(2) REPORT BY SECRETARY.—Not later than 

13 1 year after the date of enactment of the Traumatic 

14 Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2014, the Sec15 retary shall prepare and submit to the appropriate 

16 committees of Congress a report describing the serv17 ices and activities carried out under this section dur18 ing the period for which the report is being pre19 pared.’’. 

20 (4) in subsection (i)— 

21 (A) by striking ‘‘Administrator of the 

22 Health Resources and Services Administration’’ 

23 and inserting ‘‘Secretary’’; and 

24 (B) by striking ‘‘by the Administrator’’ 

25 and inserting ‘‘by the Secretary’’; 
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1 (5) in subsection (k), by striking ‘‘subtitle C’’ 

2 and inserting ‘‘subtitle C of title I’’; 

3 (6) by striking subsection (l) (relating to au4 thorization of appropriations); and 

5 (7) by redesignating subsection (m) as sub6 section (l). 

Passed the House of Representatives June 24, 2014. 

Attest: 

Clerk. 

113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 1098 

AN ACT 

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