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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1760 

To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the Healthy Start 

Initiative. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JULY 10, 2007 

Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. BURR) introduced the following bill; which 

was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 

Labor, and Pensions 

A BILL 

To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to 

the Healthy Start Initiative. 

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 ‘‘Healthy Start Reau5 thorization Act of 2007’’. 

6 SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO HEALTHY START INITIATIVE. 

7 (a) CONSIDERATIONS IN MAKING GRANTS.—Section 

8 330H(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 

9 254c–8(b)) is amended— 


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1 (1) by striking ‘‘(b) REQUIREMENTS’’ and all 

2 that follows through ‘‘In making grants under sub3 section (a)’’ and inserting the following: 

4 ‘‘(b) CONSIDERATIONS IN MAKING GRANTS.— 

5 ‘‘(1) REQUIREMENTS.—In making grants under 

6 subsection (a)’’; and 

7 (2) by adding at the end the following para8 graph: 

9 ‘‘(2) OTHER CONSIDERATIONS.—In making 

10 grants under subsection (a), the Secretary shall take 

11 into consideration the following: 

12 ‘‘(A) Factors that contribute to infant 

13 mortality, such as low birthweight. 

14 ‘‘(B) The extent to which applicants for 

15 such grants facilitate— 

16 ‘‘(i) a community-based approach to 

17 the delivery of services; and 

18 ‘‘(ii) a comprehensive approach to 

19 women’s health care to improve perinatal 

20 outcomes. 

21 ‘‘(3) SPECIAL PROJECTS.—Nothing in para22 graph (2) shall be construed to prohibit the Sec23 retary from awarding grants under subsection (a) 

24 for special projects that are intended to address sig25 nificant disparities in perinatal health indicators in 


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1 communities along the United States-Mexico border 

2 or in Alaska and Hawaii.’’. 

3 (b) OTHER GRANTS.—Section 330H of the Public 

4 Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c–8) is amended— 

5 (1) in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (3); 

6 and 

7 (2) by striking subsections (e) and (f). 

8 (c) FUNDING.—Section 330H of the Public Health 

9 Service Act, as amended by subsection (b) of this section, 

10 is amended by adding at the end the following subsection: 

11 ‘‘(e) FUNDING.— 

12 ‘‘(1) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 

13 For the purpose of carrying out this section, there 

14 are authorized to be appropriated— 

15 ‘‘(A) $120,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; 

16 and 

17 ‘‘(B) for each of fiscal years 2009 through 

18 2013, the amount authorized for the preceding 

19 fiscal year increased by the percentage increase 

20 in the Consumer Price Index for all urban con21 sumers for such year. 

22 ‘‘(2) ALLOCATION.— 

23 ‘‘(A) PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION.—Of the 

24 amounts appropriated under paragraph (1) for 

25 a fiscal year, the Secretary may reserve up to 


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1 5 percent for coordination, dissemination, tech2 nical assistance, and data activities that are de3 termined by the Secretary to be appropriate for 

4 carrying out the program under this section. 

5 ‘‘(B) EVALUATION.—Of the amounts ap6 propriated under paragraph (1) for a fiscal 

7 year, the Secretary may reserve up to 1 percent 

8 for evaluations of projects carried out under 

9 subsection (a). Each such evaluation shall in10 clude a determination of whether such projects 

11 have been effective in reducing the disparity in 

12 health status between the general population 

13 and individuals who are members of racial or 

14 ethnic minority groups.’’. 

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