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Union Calendar No. 337 

113TH CONGRESS 

2ND SESSION H. R. 1098 

[Report No. 113–456] 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize certain programs 

relating to traumatic brain injury and to trauma research. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 12, 2013 

Mr. PASCRELL (for himself and Mr. ROONEY) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

MAY 20, 2014 

Additional sponsors: Mr. PALLONE, Mr. TONKO, Mr. WELCH, Ms. ESHOO, Ms. 

MCCOLLUM, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. BARBER, Mr. PASTOR of Arizona, Mr. 

PRICE of North Carolina, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mr. COHEN, Ms. BROWN

of Florida, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mrs. 

CHRISTENSEN, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Ms. KUSTER, Mr. RANGEL, 

Mr. JOYCE, and Mr. MICHAUD

MAY 20, 2014 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 12, 2013] 


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A BILL 

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

to trauma research. 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Traumatic Brain Injury 

3 Reauthorization Act of 2013’’. 

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 referred 

9 to as Healthy People 2010’’ and inserting ‘‘health-status 

10 goals for 2020, commonly referred to as Healthy People 

11 2020’’. 

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

13 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 Traumatic 

22 Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2013, the Sec23 retary, acting through the Director of the Centers for 

24 Disease Control and Prevention and the Director of 

25 the National Institutes of Health and in consultation 

26 with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of 


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1 Veterans Affairs, shall submit to the relevant commit2 tees of Congress a report that— 

3 ‘‘(A) identifies which recommendations in 

4 the report under paragraph (1) have been adopt5 ed and which recommendations in such report 

6 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; and 

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

15 amounts made available to carry out this part for 

16 each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018, there is au17 thorized to be appropriated $6,100,000 to carry out 

18 sections 393B and 393C.’’. 

19 SEC. 3. STATE GRANTS FOR PROJECTS REGARDING TRAU20 MATIC BRAIN INJURY. 

21 Section 1252 of the Public Health Service Act (42 

22 U.S.C. 300d–52) is amended— 

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

24 through the Administrator of the Health Resources 

25 and Services Administration,’’; 


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1 (2) in paragraphs (1)(A)(i) and (3)(E) of sub2 section (f), by striking ‘‘brain injury’’ and inserting 

3 ‘‘traumatic brain injury’’; 

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

5 after ‘‘under this section’’ and inserting a comma be6 fore ‘‘including’’; and 

7 (4) by amending subsection (j) to read as follows: 

8 ‘‘(j) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For car9 rying out this section and section 1253, there is authorized 

10 to be appropriated $9,760,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 

11 through 2018.’’. 

12 SEC. 4. STATE GRANTS FOR PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY 

13 SERVICES. 

14 Section 1253 of the Public Health Service Act (42 

15 U.S.C. 300d–53) is amended— 

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

17 through the Administrator of the Health Resources 

18 and Services Administration (referred to in this sec19 tion as the ‘Administrator’),’’; 

20 (2) in subsections (c), (d)(1), (e)(1), (e)(4), (g), 

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

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

23 (3) in subsection (h)— 

24 (A) by striking the subsection heading and 

25 inserting ‘‘REPORTING’’; 


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1 (B) by striking ‘‘Each protection and advo2 cacy system’’ and inserting the following: 

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

4 and advocacy system’’; and 

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

6 ‘‘(2) REPORT BY SECRETARY.—Not later than 1 

7 year after the date of enactment of the Traumatic 

8 Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2013, the Sec9 retary shall prepare and submit to the appropriate 

10 committees of Congress a report describing the serv11 ices and activities carried out under this section dur12 ing the period for which the report is being pre13 pared.’’. 

14 (4) in subsection (i)— 

15 (A) by striking ‘‘Administrator of the 

16 Health Resources and Services Administration’’ 

17 and inserting ‘‘Secretary’’; and 

18 (B) by striking ‘‘by the Administrator’’ and 

19 inserting ‘‘by the Secretary’’; 

20 (5) in subsection (k), by striking ‘‘subtitle C’’ 

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

22 (6) by striking subsection (l) (relating to author23 ization of appropriations); and 

24 (7) by redesignating subsection (m) as subsection 

25 (l). 


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Union Calendar No. 337 

113TH CONGRESS 

2ND SESSION H. R. 1098 

[Report No. 113–456] 

A BILL 

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

MAY 20, 2014 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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