I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2757 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a National Center 
for Violence Prevention, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 26, 2017 
Mr. QUIGLEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a Na-
tional Center for Violence Prevention, and for other pur-
poses. 
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 ‘‘Public Health Violence 
Prevention Act’’. 
SEC. 2. OFFICE OF NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES, VIO-
LENCE, 
INJURY, 
AND 
ENVIRONMENTAL 
HEALTH. 
Not later than 6 months after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human 
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Services shall rename the Office of Noncommunicable Dis-
eases, Injury, and Environmental Health, within the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Prevention, the Office of 
Noncommunicable Diseases, Violence, Injury, and Envi-
ronmental Health and shall take such measures as is nec-
essary to provide that any reference in regulation or guid-
ance to the Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury, 
and Environmental Health is a reference to the Office of 
Noncommunicable Diseases, Violence, Injury, and Envi-
ronmental Health. 
SEC. 3. NATIONAL CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title III of the Public Health 
Service Act (241 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new part: 
‘‘PART W—PROGRAMS RELATING TO VIOLENCE 
PREVENTION 
‘‘Subpart I—National Center for Violence Prevention 
‘‘SEC. 399OO. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL CENTER FOR 
VIOLENCE PREVENTION. 
‘‘There is established, within the Office of Non-
communicable Diseases, Violence, Injury, and Environ-
mental Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
vention, the National Center for Violence Prevention, 
which shall be headed by a director appointed by the Sec-
retary (in this part referred to as the ‘Director’).’’. 
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(b) 
TRANSFER
OF
AUTHORITIES; 
EFFECTIVE 
DATE.— 
(1) TRANSFER
OF
AUTHORITIES.—The Sec-
retary of Health and Human Services shall delegate 
to the Director of the National Center for Violence 
Prevention all duties and authorities relating to vio-
lence prevention that, as of the day before the date 
of enactment of this Act, were vested in the Director 
of the National Center for Injury Prevention and 
Control of the Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, 
Injury, and Environmental Health of the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section and the 
amendments made by this section apply beginning 
on the day that is 6 months after the date of enact-
ment of this Act. 
SEC. 4. PUBLIC HEALTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION PRO-
GRAM. 
Part W of title III of the Public Health Service Act 
(241 et seq.), as added by section 3, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subpart: 
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‘‘Subpart II—Public Health Violence Prevention 
Program 
‘‘SEC. 399OO–11. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM AND GEN-
ERAL PROVISIONS. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director shall establish 
a Public Health Violence Prevention Program under which 
the Director shall establish and oversee each of the grant 
programs under this subpart. 
‘‘(b) PREFERENCE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In awarding grants under 
a grant program under this subpart the Director 
shall give preference to applications for projects to 
serve an area that is included in the cities, counties 
(including rural), and frontier areas with the 50 
highest annual rates of violence per capita as well as 
those with the highest increases in all forms of vio-
lence over a period, as specified by the Director. 
‘‘(2) DETERMINATION
CONSIDERATIONS.—For 
purposes of this subsection— 
‘‘(A) to determine annual rates of violence 
the Director shall consider data on gun vio-
lence, sexual violence, domestic violence, drug- 
related violence, school violence, child abuse, 
elder abuse, and suicide; and 
‘‘(B) the Director shall rely on violence 
data from the Department of Justice and the 
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Census Bureau until the Office of Data Collec-
tion and Evaluation under section 399OO–35 is 
operational. 
‘‘(c) USE OF FUNDS.—Grants awarded under a grant 
program under this subpart shall be used at a minimum 
for the deployment of comprehensive health-focused re-
sponses to violence and the prevention of violence. 
‘‘(d) COMPETITIVE GRANT PROGRAMS.—Grants shall 
be awarded under a grant program under this subpart on 
a competitive basis, based on the level of need of the area 
which would be served by the project proposed in the ap-
plication for the grant, the project design, the capacity of 
the applicant to implement the project, capacity building, 
as well as the plan proposed in the application to evaluate 
the outcomes of the project. Individual projects, policies, 
or strategies funded pursuant to this subpart for a period 
and found to be effective at reducing violence may be given 
preference for awarding grants under this subpart for a 
subsequent period. 
‘‘(e) ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REPORT.—Each recipi-
ent of a grant awarded under a grant program under this 
subpart shall be required as a condition of receipt of such 
grant to submit an annual performance report, with re-
spect to each year for which the grant is awarded to such 
recipient, detailing how the funds under such grant were 
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used and progress made during the applicable funding pe-
riod under the grant. 
‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—For 
purposes of carrying out this subpart, for each of fiscal 
years 2018 through 2023, there are authorized to be ap-
propriated, in addition to any amounts otherwise author-
ized to be appropriated or made available to the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, $500,000,000. Of the 
amount appropriated pursuant to the previous sentence 
for a fiscal year— 
‘‘(1) 70 percent shall be made available to carry 
out section 399OO–12; 
‘‘(2) 4 percent shall be made available to carry 
out section 399OO–13; 
‘‘(3) 10 percent shall be made available to carry 
out section 399OO–14; 
‘‘(4) 10 percent shall be made available to carry 
out section 399OO–15; and 
‘‘(5) 6 percent shall be made available to carry 
out section 399OO–16. 
‘‘SEC. 399OO–12. PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT VIOLENCE 
PREVENTION GRANTS. 
‘‘The Director shall, under the Public Health Vio-
lence Prevention Program, carry out the Public Health 
Department Violence Prevention Grants Program under 
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which the Director shall award competitive grants to local 
public health departments (operating within high violence 
cities, counties (including rural), and frontier areas, as de-
termined in accordance with section 399OO–11(b)) for the 
following purposes: 
‘‘(1) To develop and implement evidence-based 
comprehensive community-based prevention and 
intervention strategy to address violence in the com-
munity services by such department. 
‘‘(2) To incentivize health sector leadership to 
address social determinants related to violence. 
‘‘(3) To coordinate the use of health data with 
other sectors to build community capacity to address 
social determinants of health. 
‘‘(4) To improve coordination within such de-
partment and leadership of such department in ad-
dressing violence as a health issue as well as develop 
infrastructure to reduce the racial inequities related 
to violence including hiring, training, and supporting 
violence prevention coordinators. 
‘‘(5) To monitor past and current violence 
trends to disseminate resources to increase resil-
ience. 
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