‘‘(1) prepare and submit to the Secretary an
application, at such time, in such manner, and con-
taining such information as the Secretary may re-
quire; and
‘‘(2) provide assurances to the Secretary that
any preventive measures implemented under a pre-
vention project funded under this section may in-
clude—
‘‘(A) behavioral and environmental tech-
niques, as well as educational and responsible-
use programs;
‘‘(B) the use of innovative and proven
model prevention approaches;
‘‘(C) the promotion of activities that will
minimize brain injury risk in athletes (such as
the use of head protection gear); and
‘‘(D) the improvement of community-level
access to data-base systems to assist in design-
ing, developing, and implementing traumatic
brain injury prevention programs.
‘‘(c) RESTRICTION ON USE OF FUNDS.—A grant
under subsection (a) may not be expended to engage in
advocacy regarding Federal, State, or local laws.
‘‘(d) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—The Secretary may
not require that, as a condition of the receipt of a grant
under subsection (a), a State have in effect a law regard-
ing the use of helmets while operating motorcycles.
‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section,
$4,000,000 for fiscal year 1994, and such sums as may
be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1995 and 1996.
‘‘SEC. 1225D. BASIC AND APPLIED RESEARCH.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting through
the Director of the National Institutes of Health, may pro-
vide assistance to public and private nonprofit entities to
support the conduct of basic and applied research concern-
ing traumatic brain injury, especially with respect to the
biomechanics of brain injury, the molecular and cellular
characteristics of primary and secondary injury to the
brain and the development of improved experimental brain
injury models.
‘‘(b) SPECIFIC RESEARCH.—Research to be con-
ducted with assistance provided under subsection (a) shall
be determined by the Secretary, prior to the provision of
such assistance, to contribute to the strategies that will
limit primary and secondary mechanical, biochemical and
metabolic insults to the brain and minimize the extent,
severity and progression of resulting dysfunctions. In im-
plementing this section the Secretary shall emphasize—
‘‘(1) the development of new methods and mo-
dalities for the more effective diagnosis, measure-
ment of degree of injury, post-injury monitoring and
prognostic assessment of head injury for acute,
subacute and later phases of care;
‘‘(2) the development, modification and evalua-
tion of therapies that retard, prevent or reverse
brain damage after acute head injury, that arrest
further deterioration following injury and that pro-
vide the restitution of function for individuals with
long-term injuries;
‘‘(3) the integration of basic research into clini-
cal care settings;
‘‘(4) the development of a continuum of care
from acute care through rehabilitation, designed, to
the extent practicable, to integrate rehabilitation and
long-term outcome evaluation with acute care re-
search;
‘‘(5) the development of programs that increase
the participation of academic centers of excellence in
head injury treatment and rehabilitation research
and training; and
‘‘(6) the conduct of national consensus con-
ferences on managing head injury and related reha-
bilitation concerns, the findings of which shall be
published.
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section,
$5,000,000 for fiscal year 1994, and such sums as may
be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1995 and 1996.
‘‘SEC. 1225E. STATEWIDE PROGRAM FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN
INJURY.
‘‘(a) GRANTS.—The Secretary shall award grants to
States for the establishment of programs related to trau-
matic brain injury. Such programs shall include State ad-
visory boards, patient advocacy and service coordination
systems, and State registries concerning individuals af-
fected by traumatic brain injuries. Services may also be
provided under this section, within the limits of service
availability, to individuals whose deficits are not due to
traumatic brain injury. To be eligible for such services,
such individuals should be comparable to traumatic brain
injury patients in regard to the range of services needed,
the severity and duration of deficits, and the etiology of
their deficits being due to a nonprogressive and non-
recurring disorder.
‘‘(b) GENERAL ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.—To be
eligible to receive a grant under subsection (a), a State
shall—
‘‘(1) prepare and submit to the Secretary an
application, at such time, in such manner, and con-
taining such information as the Secretary may re-
quire;
‘‘(2) provide assurances that it will prepare and
submit to the Secretary reports describing the activi-
ties undertaken under the State system established
under the grant; and
‘‘(3) provide for the establishment of a State-
wide program that includes a State registry for trau-
matic brain injury information, a program of patient
advocacy and service coordination, and a State advi-
sory board with respect to activities under this
section.
‘‘(c) SPECIFIC PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—
‘‘(1) STATE REGISTRY.—To be eligible to re-
ceive a grant under subsection (a), a State shall—
‘‘(A)(i) establish and maintain, through
the utilization of procedures to ensure privacy
and maintain the confidentiality of information,
which are acceptable to the Secretary, a central
registry of persons who sustain traumatic brain
injury in order to—
‘‘(I) collect information to facilitate
the development of injury prevention,
treatment, and rehabilitation programs;
and
‘‘(II) report data to the Director on
an annual basis for State reporting re-
quirements; and
‘‘(ii) a violation of such privacy and con-
fidentiality procedures or the unauthorized use
of such information may result in a loss of sup-
port under this section; and
‘‘(B) provide summary registry data or
data that is not personally identifiable to public
and private entities to conduct studies using
data collected by the traumatic brain injury
registry established under subparagraph (A),
for which the coordinator may charge a fee for
all expenses associated with the provision of
data or data analysis.
‘‘(2) ADVOCACY
AND
SERVICE
COORDINA-
TION.—To be eligible to receive a grant under sub-
section (a), a State shall—
‘‘(A) designate a State coordinator for
traumatic brain injuries who—
‘‘(i) shall establish policies and stand-
ards for coordinating services within the