I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8751 
To direct the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
to submit a report to Congress on the feasibility of reporting data 
relating to injuries in high school sports to improve the safety of student 
athletes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 26, 2022 
Mr. VEASEY (for himself and Mr. EMMER) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition 
to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To direct the Director of the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention to submit a report to Congress on the 
feasibility of reporting data relating to injuries in high 
school sports to improve the safety of student athletes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘High School Sports 
Injury Reporting’’. 
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SEC. 2. REPORT ON FEASABILITY OF REPORTING DATA ON 
INJURIES IN HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS TO IM-
PROVE SAFETY OF STUDENT ATHLETES. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, acting through the Director of the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Prevention, shall submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees a report on high 
school sports injury reporting. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The report under subsection (a) 
shall include the following: 
(1) A survey to examine how injuries in high 
school sports are reported in the United States, in-
cluding— 
(A) the kind of data that is available; 
(B) the tools used to report such data; and 
(C) the effect of such reporting on the out-
comes relating to such injuries. 
(2) An in-depth evaluation of a State that re-
quires reporting data relating to such injuries, in-
cluding— 
(A) the tools that high schools in that 
State use to conduct such reporting; 
(B) the ability of such schools to collect 
such data; and 
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(C) the effect of such reporting on the re-
covery of student athletes from such injuries. 
(3) An analysis of how such reporting affects 
the number of such injuries and the treatment relat-
ing to such injuries. 
(4) A description of recommendations on how 
such data reporting helps inform sports safety stat-
utes, policies, and practices in the State. 
(5) What Federal statutes, policies, tools, and 
practices could be employed to support high schools 
nationwide in employing robust high school sports 
injury reporting requirements and systems to im-
proves student athlete safety. 
(6) Any other matters the Secretary considers 
appropriate. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committees on Appropriations, 
Education and Labor, and Energy and Com-
merce of the House of Representatives; and 
(B) the Committees on Appropriations and 
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the 
Senate. 
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(2) HIGH
SCHOOL.—The term ‘‘high school’’ 
has the meaning given such term in section 8101 of 
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
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