SEC. 3. CREATION OF A TBI AND PTSD TRAINING FOR 
FIRST RESPONDERS. 
Part HH of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10651 et seq.) is 
amended— 
(1) in section 2991— 
(A) in subsection (h)(1)(A), by inserting 
before the period at the end the following: ‘‘, in-
cluding the training developed under section 
2993’’; and 
(B) in subsection (o)(1)(C), by striking 
‘‘$50,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$54,000,000’’; 
and 
(2) by inserting after section 2992 the following 
new section: 
‘‘SEC. 2993. CREATION OF A TBI AND PTSD TRAINING FOR 
FIRST RESPONDERS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year after the 
date of the enactment of this section, the Attorney Gen-
eral, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Justice 
Assistance, in consultation with the Director of the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Prevention and the Assistant 
Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, shall so-
licit best practices regarding techniques to interact with 
persons who have traumatic brain injury, acquired brain 
injury, or post-traumatic stress disorder from first re-
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sponder, brain injury, veteran, and mental health organi-
zations, health care and mental health providers, hospital 
emergency departments, and other relevant stakeholders, 
and shall develop crisis intervention training tools for use 
by first responders (as such term is defined in section 
3025) that provide— 
‘‘(1) information on the conditions and symp-
toms of traumatic brain injury, acquired brain in-
jury, and post-traumatic stress disorder; 
‘‘(2) techniques to interact with persons who 
have a traumatic brain injury, an acquired brain in-
jury, or post-traumatic stress disorder; and 
‘‘(3) information on how to recognize persons 
who have a traumatic brain injury, an acquired 
brain injury, or post-traumatic stress disorder. 
‘‘(b) USE OF TRAINING TOOLS AT LAW ENFORCE-
MENT MENTAL HEALTH LEARNING SITES.—The Attor-
ney General shall ensure that not less than one Law En-
forcement Mental Health Learning Site designated by the 
Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, in consulta-
tion with the Council of State Governments Justice Cen-
ter, utilizes the training tools developed under subsection 
(a). 
‘‘(c) POLICE MENTAL HEALTH COLLABORATION 
TOOLKIT.—The Attorney General shall make the training 
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tools developed under subsection (a) available as part of 
the Police-Mental Health Collaboration Toolkit provided 
by the Bureau of Justice Assistance.’’. 
SEC. 4. SURVEILLANCE AND REPORTING FOR FIRST RE-
SPONDERS WITH TBI. 
Section 393C of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 280b–1d) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(d) LAW ENFORCEMENT AND FIRST RESPONDER 
SURVEILLANCE.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting 
through the Director of the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, shall implement concussion 
data collection and analysis to determine the preva-
lence and incidence of concussion among first re-
sponders (as such term is defined in section 3025 of 
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Street Act of 
1968 (34 U.S.C. 10705)). 
‘‘(2) REPORT.—Not later than 18 months after 
the date of the enactment of this subsection, the 
Secretary, acting through the Director of the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Prevention and the Di-
rector of the National Institutes of Health and in 
consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, shall submit to the 
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relevant committees of Congress a report that con-
tains the findings of the surveillance conducted 
under paragraph (1). The report shall include sur-
veillance data and recommendations for resources 
for first responders who have experienced traumatic 
brain injury.’’. 
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