IIB 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5354 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
NOVEMBER 15, 2010 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor, and Pensions 
AN ACT 
To provide grants to better understand and reduce 
gestational diabetes, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Gestational Diabetes 
Act of 2010’’ or the ‘‘GEDI Act’’. 
SEC. 2. GESTATIONAL DIABETES. 
Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 243 et seq.) is amended by adding after section 
317H the following: 
‘‘SEC. 317H–1. GESTATIONAL DIABETES. 
‘‘(a) UNDERSTANDING
AND MONITORING GESTA-
TIONAL DIABETES.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting 
through the Director of the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, in consultation with the Di-
abetes Mellitus Interagency Coordinating Committee 
established under section 429 and representatives of 
appropriate national health organizations, shall de-
velop a multisite gestational diabetes research 
project within the diabetes program of the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention to expand and 
enhance surveillance data and public health research 
on gestational diabetes. 
‘‘(2) AREAS TO BE ADDRESSED.—The research 
project developed under paragraph (1) shall ad-
dress— 
‘‘(A) procedures to establish accurate and 
efficient systems for the collection of gestational 
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diabetes data within each State and common-
wealth, territory, or possession of the United 
States; 
‘‘(B) the progress of collaborative activities 
with the National Vital Statistics System, the 
National Center for Health Statistics, and 
State health departments with respect to the 
standard birth certificate, in order to improve 
surveillance of gestational diabetes; 
‘‘(C) postpartum methods of tracking 
women with gestational diabetes after delivery 
as well as targeted interventions proven to 
lower the incidence of type 2 diabetes in that 
population; 
‘‘(D) variations in the distribution of diag-
nosed and undiagnosed gestational diabetes, 
and of impaired fasting glucose tolerance and 
impaired fasting glucose, within and among 
groups of women; and 
‘‘(E) factors and culturally sensitive inter-
ventions that influence risks and reduce the in-
cidence of gestational diabetes and related com-
plications during childbirth, including cultural, 
behavioral, racial, ethnic, geographic, demo-
graphic, socioeconomic, and genetic factors. 
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‘‘(3) REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after the 
date of the enactment of this section, and annually 
thereafter, the Secretary shall generate a report on 
the findings and recommendations of the research 
project including prevalence of gestational diabetes 
in the multisite area and disseminate the report to 
the appropriate Federal and non-Federal agencies. 
‘‘(b) EXPANSION OF GESTATIONAL DIABETES RE-
SEARCH.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall expand 
and intensify public health research regarding gesta-
tional diabetes. Such research may include— 
‘‘(A) developing and testing novel ap-
proaches for improving postpartum diabetes 
testing or screening and for preventing type 2 
diabetes in women with a history of gestational 
diabetes; and 
‘‘(B) conducting public health research to 
further understanding of the epidemiologic, 
socioenvironmental, behavioral, translation, and 
biomedical factors and health systems that in-
fluence the risk of gestational diabetes and the 
development of type 2 diabetes in women with 
a history of gestational diabetes. 
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‘‘(2) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this subsection $5,000,000 for each fiscal year 2012 
through 2016. 
‘‘(c) DEMONSTRATION GRANTS TO LOWER THE RATE 
OF GESTATIONAL DIABETES.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting 
through the Director of the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, shall award grants, on a 
competitive basis, to eligible entities for demonstra-
tion projects that implement evidence-based inter-
ventions to reduce the incidence of gestational diabe-
tes, the recurrence of gestational diabetes in subse-
quent pregnancies, and the development of type 2 di-
abetes in women with a history of gestational diabe-
tes. 
‘‘(2) PRIORITY.—In making grants under this 
subsection, the Secretary shall give priority to 
projects focusing on— 
‘‘(A) helping women who have 1 or more 
risk factors for developing gestational diabetes; 
‘‘(B) working with women with a history of 
gestational diabetes during a previous preg-
nancy; 
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