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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 763 

To amend title XII of the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize certain 

trauma care programs, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 17, 2015 

Mr. REED (for himself and Mrs. MURRAY) introduced the following bill; which 

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

Labor, and Pensions 

A BILL 

To amend title XII of the Public Health Service Act to 

reauthorize certain trauma care programs, 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 ‘‘Trauma Systems and 

5 Regionalization of Emergency Care Reauthorization Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF CERTAIN TRAUMA CARE 

2 PROGRAMS. 

3 Section 1232(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 

4 U.S.C. 300d–32(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘2014’’ and 

5 inserting ‘‘2020’’. 

6 SEC. 3. IMPROVEMENTS AND CLARIFICATIONS TO CERTAIN 

7 TRAUMA CARE PROGRAMS. 

8 (a) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS FOR COMPETITIVE

9 GRANTS FOR REGIONALIZED SYSTEMS FOR EMERGENCY

10 CARE RESPONSE.—Section 1232(c) of the Public Health 

11 Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300d–31(c)) is amended— 

12 (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 

13 end; 

14 (2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at 

15 the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

16 (3) by adding at the end the following new 

17 paragraph: 

18 ‘‘(3) for a fiscal year after fiscal year 2015, not 

19 more than 50 percent of such amounts remaining 

20 for such fiscal year after application of paragraphs 

21 (1) and (2) shall be allocated for the purpose of car22 rying out section 1204.’’. 

23 (b) CLARIFICATIONS UNDER TRAUMA SYSTEMS FOR24 MULA GRANTS REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO THE AMER25 ICAN BURN ASSOCIATION.—Section 1213 of the Public 

26 Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300d–13) is amended— 


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1 (1) in subsection (a)(3), by inserting ‘‘and (for 

2 a fiscal year after fiscal year 2015) contains national 

3 standards and requirements of the American Burn 

4 Association for the designation of verified burn cen5 ters,’’ after ‘‘such entity,’’; 

6 (2) in subsection (b)(3)(A), by striking ‘‘and 

7 the American Academy of Pediatrics,’’ and inserting 

8 ‘‘the American Academy of Pediatrics, and (for a 

9 fiscal year after fiscal year 2015) the American 

10 Burn Association,’’; and 

11 (3) in subsection (c)(1)— 

12 (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 

13 (A), by inserting ‘‘and not later than 1 year 

14 after the date of the enactment of the Trauma 

15 Systems and Regionalization of Emergency 

16 Care Reauthorization Act’’ after ‘‘Act of 2007’’; 

17 and 

18 (B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘and 

19 the American Academy of Pediatrics’’ and in20 serting ‘‘the American Academy of Pediatrics, 

21 and (with respect to the update pursuant to the 

22 Trauma Systems and Regionalization of Emer23 gency Care Reauthorization Act) the American 

24 Burn Association’’. 


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1 (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Part B of title XII 

2 of the Public Health Service Act is amended— 

3 (1) in section 1218(c)(2) (42 U.S.C. 300d– 

4 18(c)(2)), in the matter preceding subparagraph 

5 (A), by striking ‘‘1232(b)(3)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 

6 1232(b)’’; and 

7 (2) in section 1222 (42 U.S.C. 300d–22), by 

8 striking ‘‘October 1, 2008’’ and inserting ‘‘October 

9 1, 2017’’. 

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