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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2581 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a health survey 

regarding Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 21, 2009 

Ms. BORDALLO (for herself, Mr. HONDA, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, and Mr. SABLAN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy 

and Commerce 

A BILL 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for 

a health survey regarding Native Hawaiians and other 

Pacific Islanders. 

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 ‘‘Native Hawaiian and 

5 Other Pacific Islander Health Survey Act of 2009’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER 

2 HEALTH SURVEY. 

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

4 (42 U.S.C. 243 et seq.) is amended by inserting after sec5 tion 317T the following: 

6 ‘‘SEC. 317U. NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND OTHER PACIFIC IS7 LANDER HEALTH SURVEY. 

8 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall award a con9 tract or grant to an entity to develop and conduct a health 

10 survey regarding Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Is11 landers in the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Amer12 ican Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

13 Islands, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the 

14 Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of 

15 Palau— 

16 ‘‘(1) to identify the unmet health and health 

17 care needs of such Native Hawaiians and other Pa18 cific Islanders; and 

19 ‘‘(2) to establish baseline health information (to 

20 the extent such information is lacking) to achieve eq21 uity in health information for the Native Hawaiian 

22 and other Pacific Islander community. 

23 ‘‘(b) TARGETING OF DATA COLLECTION.—Efforts to 

24 collect data pursuant to this section shall be targeted to 

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1 tions of Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders 

2 based on the regular decennial census conducted for 2010. 

3 ‘‘(c) ANALYSIS.—The Secretary shall award a con4 tract or grant to an entity— 

5 ‘‘(1) to analyze and prepare the data collected 

6 under this section for distribution; and 

7 ‘‘(2) to submit the data, analysis, and any cor8 responding documents to the National Center for 

9 Health Statistics for internal review. 

10 ‘‘(d) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The Secretary shall, to 

11 the extent appropriate, make publically available the data, 

12 measures, and analysis collected or generated pursuant to 

13 this section. 

14 ‘‘(e) REPORT.—Not later than the end of fiscal year 

15 2015, the Secretary shall submit a report to the Congress 

16 on the activities carried out under this section and the 

17 data, measures, and analysis collected or generated pursu18 ant to this section. 

19 ‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To 

20 carry out this section, there are authorized to be appro21 priated such sums as may be necessary for the period of 

22 fiscal years 2010 through 2015, of which not less than 

23 $8,000,000 shall be for carrying out subsection (c).’’. 

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