IIB 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1098 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE 25, 2014 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor, and Pensions 
AN ACT 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize cer-
tain programs relating to traumatic brain injury and 
to trauma research. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Traumatic Brain In-
jury Reauthorization Act of 2014’’. 
SEC. 2. CDC PROGRAMS FOR PREVENTION AND SURVEIL-
LANCE OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY. 
(a) PREVENTION.—Section 393B(b)(3) of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280b–1c(b)(3)) is amended 
by striking ‘‘health-status goals for 2010, commonly re-
ferred to as Healthy People 2010’’ and inserting ‘‘health- 
status goals for 2020, commonly referred to as Healthy 
People 2020’’. 
(b) SURVEILLANCE.—Subsection (b) of section 393C 
of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280b–1d) is 
amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘(b) Not later than’’ and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘(b) REPORTS.— 
‘‘(1) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) SUBSEQUENT REPORT.—Not later than 24 
months after the date of enactment of the Trau-
matic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2014, the 
Secretary, acting through the Director of the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Prevention and the Di-
rector of the National Institutes of Health and in 
consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the 
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Secretary of Veterans Affairs, shall submit to the 
relevant committees of Congress a report that— 
‘‘(A) identifies which recommendations in 
the report under paragraph (1) have been 
adopted and which recommendations in such re-
port have not been adopted; and 
‘‘(B) includes a description of planned ac-
tivities to address each recommendation in such 
report that has not been adopted.’’. 
(c) FUNDING.—Section 394A of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280b–3) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ after ‘‘1994,’’; 
(2) by striking the second period at the end; 
and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘Of the 
amounts made available to carry out this part for 
each of fiscal years 2015 through 2019, there is au-
thorized to be appropriated $6,100,000 to carry out 
sections 393B and 393C.’’. 
SEC. 3. STATE GRANTS FOR PROJECTS REGARDING TRAU-
MATIC BRAIN INJURY. 
Section 1252 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 300d–52) is amended— 
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(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘, acting 
through the Administrator of the Health Resources 
and Services Administration,’’; 
(2) in paragraphs (1)(A)(i) and (3)(E) of sub-
section (f), by striking ‘‘brain injury’’ and inserting 
‘‘traumatic brain injury’’; 
(3) in subsection (h), by striking the comma 
after ‘‘under this section’’ and inserting a comma 
before ‘‘including’’; and 
(4) by amending subsection (j) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(j) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—For 
carrying out this section and section 1253, there is author-
ized to be appropriated $9,760,000 for each of fiscal years 
2015 through 2019.’’. 
SEC. 4. STATE GRANTS FOR PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY 
SERVICES. 
Section 1253 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 300d–53) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘, acting 
through the Administrator of the Health Resources 
and Services Administration (referred to in this sec-
tion as the ‘Administrator’),’’; 
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(2) in subsections (c), (d)(1), (e)(1), (e)(4), (g), 
(h), and (j)(1), by striking ‘‘Administrator’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘Secretary’’; 
(3) in subsection (h)— 
(A) by striking the subsection heading and 
inserting ‘‘REPORTING’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘Each protection and advo-
cacy system’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) REPORTS BY SYSTEMS.—Each protection 
and advocacy system’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) REPORT BY SECRETARY.—Not later than 
1 year after the date of enactment of the Traumatic 
Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2014, the Sec-
retary shall prepare and submit to the appropriate 
committees of Congress a report describing the serv-
ices and activities carried out under this section dur-
ing the period for which the report is being pre-
pared.’’. 
(4) in subsection (i)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘Administrator of the 
Health Resources and Services Administration’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Secretary’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘by the Administrator’’ 
and inserting ‘‘by the Secretary’’; 
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(5) in subsection (k), by striking ‘‘subtitle C’’ 
and inserting ‘‘subtitle C of title I’’; 
(6) by striking subsection (l) (relating to au-
thorization of appropriations); and 
(7) by redesignating subsection (m) as sub-
section (l). 
Passed the House of Representatives June 24, 2014. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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