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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2581 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a health survey 
regarding Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 21, 2009 
Ms. BORDALLO (for herself, Mr. HONDA, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. ABER-
CROMBIE, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, and Mr. SABLAN) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for 
a health survey regarding Native Hawaiians and other 
Pacific Islanders. 
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 ‘‘Native Hawaiian and 
Other Pacific Islander Health Survey Act of 2009’’. 
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SEC. 2. NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER 
HEALTH SURVEY. 
Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 243 et seq.) is amended by inserting after sec-
tion 317T the following: 
‘‘SEC. 317U. NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND OTHER PACIFIC IS-
LANDER HEALTH SURVEY. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall award a con-
tract or grant to an entity to develop and conduct a health 
survey regarding Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Is-
landers in the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Amer-
ican Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the 
Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of 
Palau— 
‘‘(1) to identify the unmet health and health 
care needs of such Native Hawaiians and other Pa-
cific Islanders; and 
‘‘(2) to establish baseline health information (to 
the extent such information is lacking) to achieve eq-
uity in health information for the Native Hawaiian 
and other Pacific Islander community. 
‘‘(b) TARGETING OF DATA COLLECTION.—Efforts to 
collect data pursuant to this section shall be targeted to 
those States, the District of Columbia, territories, and af-
filiated Pacific jurisdictions with the highest concentra-
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tions of Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders 
based on the regular decennial census conducted for 2010. 
‘‘(c) ANALYSIS.—The Secretary shall award a con-
tract or grant to an entity— 
‘‘(1) to analyze and prepare the data collected 
under this section for distribution; and 
‘‘(2) to submit the data, analysis, and any cor-
responding documents to the National Center for 
Health Statistics for internal review. 
‘‘(d) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The Secretary shall, to 
the extent appropriate, make publically available the data, 
measures, and analysis collected or generated pursuant to 
this section. 
‘‘(e) REPORT.—Not later than the end of fiscal year 
2015, the Secretary shall submit a report to the Congress 
on the activities carried out under this section and the 
data, measures, and analysis collected or generated pursu-
ant to this section. 
‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—To 
carry out this section, there are authorized to be appro-
priated such sums as may be necessary for the period of 
fiscal years 2010 through 2015, of which not less than 
$8,000,000 shall be for carrying out subsection (c).’’. 
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