‘‘SEC. 399JJ. TRAINING. 
‘‘(a) GRANTS.—The Secretary, acting through the 
Director, shall award grants to eligible entities for the pro-
vision of training on death scene investigation. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible to receive 
a grant under subsection (a), an entity shall— 
‘‘(1) be— 
‘‘(A) a State or local government entity; or 
‘‘(B) a non-profit private entity; and 
‘‘(2) submit to the Secretary an application at 
such time, in such manner, and containing such in-
formation as the Secretary may require. 
‘‘(c) USE OF FUNDS.—An eligible entity shall use 
amounts received under a grant under this section to— 
‘‘(1) provide training to medical examiners, 
coroners, death scene investigators, law enforcement 
personnel, and emergency medical technicians or 
paramedics concerning death scene investigations, 
including the use of standard death scene investiga-
tion protocols that include information on the cur-
rent and past medical history of the infant/child, the 
circumstances surrounding the death including any 
suspicious circumstances, the sleep position and 
sleep environment of the infant/child, and whether 
there were any accidental or environmental factors 
associated with the death; 
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‘‘(2) provide training directly to individuals who 
are responsible for conducting and reviewing death 
scene investigations for sudden unexpected infant 
death and sudden unexplained death in childhood; 
‘‘(3) provide training to multidisciplinary teams, 
including teams that have a medical examiner or 
coroner, death scene investigator, law enforcement 
representative, and an emergency medical technician 
or paramedic; 
‘‘(4) in the case of national and State-based 
grantees that is comprised of medical examiners, 
coroners, death scene investigators, law enforcement 
personnel, or emergency medical technicians and 
paramedics, integrate training under the grant on 
death scene investigation into professional accredita-
tion and training programs; 
‘‘(5) in the case of State and local government 
entity grantees, obtain equipment, including com-
puter equipment, to aid in the completion of stand-
ard death scene investigation; or 
‘‘(6) conduct training activities for medical ex-
aminers, coroners, and forensic pathologists con-
cerning standard autopsy protocols for sudden unex-
pected infant death and sudden unexplained death in 
childhood. 
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‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 
such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 
2010 through 2014. 
‘‘SEC. 399KK. CHILD DEATH REVIEW. 
‘‘(a) PREVENTION.— 
‘‘(1) CORE CAPACITY GRANTS.—The Secretary, 
acting through the Administrator, shall award 
grants to States to build State capacity and imple-
ment State and local child death review programs 
and prevention strategies. 
‘‘(2) PLANNING GRANTS.—The Secretary, act-
ing through the Administrator, shall award planning 
grants to States that have no existing child death re-
view program or States in which the only child death 
review programs are State-based, for the develop-
ment of local child death review programs and pre-
vention strategies. 
‘‘(3) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to receive a 
grant under paragraph (1) or (2), a State shall sub-
mit to the Secretary an application at such time, in 
such manner, and containing such information as 
the Secretary may require. 
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‘‘(4) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary, 
acting through the Administrator, shall provide tech-
nical assistance to assist States— 
‘‘(A) in developing the capacity for com-
prehensive child death review programs, includ-
ing the development of best practices for the 
implementation of such programs; and 
‘‘(B) in maintaining the national child 
death case reporting system. 
‘‘(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated, such sums as may be 
necessary for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014, to 
carry out subsection (a). 
‘‘SEC. 300LL. NATIONAL REGISTRY FOR SUDDEN UNEX-
PECTED INFANT DEATHS AND SUDDEN UNEX-
PLAINED DEATH IN CHILDHOOD. 
‘‘(a) 
ESTABLISHMENT.—The 
Secretary, 
acting 
through the Director and in consultation with the national 
child death case reporting system, the Administrator of 
the Health Resources and Services Administration, na-
tional health organizations, and professional societies with 
experience and expertise relating to reducing SUID and 
SUDC, shall establish a population-based SUID and 
SUDC case registry that can facilitate the understanding 
of the root causes, rates, and trends of SUID and SUDC. 
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‘‘(b) NATIONAL REGISTRY.—The national registry 
established under subsection (a) shall facilitate the collec-
tion, analysis, and dissemination of data by— 
‘‘(1) implementing a surveillance and moni-
toring system based on thorough and complete death 
scene investigation data, clinical history, and au-
topsy findings; 
‘‘(2) collecting standardized information about 
the environmental, medical, genetic, and social cir-
cumstances of death (including sleep environment 
and quality of the death scene investigation) if de-
termined that such may correlate with infant and 
early childhood deaths, as well as information from 
other law enforcement, medical examiner, coroner, 
emergency medical services (EMS), medical records, 
and vital records (if possible); 
‘‘(3) supporting multidisciplinary infant and 
early childhood death reviews such as those per-
formed by child death review committees to collect 
and review the standardized information and accu-
rately and consistently classify and characterize 
SUID and SUDC; and 
‘‘(4) facilitating the sharing of information to 
improve the public reporting of surveillance and vital 
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