Title: Traumatic Brain Injury Program Reauthorization Act of 2018
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Traumatic Brain Injury Program Reauthorization Act of 2018
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize through FY2024 several programs relating to traumatic brain injuries, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant program for state surveillance systems that monitor traumatic brain injuries. The bill also authorizes the CDC to implement a national concussion surveillance system.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6615 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6615

           To reauthorize the Traumatic Brain Injury program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 26, 2018

    Mr. Pascrell (for himself and Mr. Thomas J. Rooney of Florida) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
           To reauthorize the Traumatic Brain Injury program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Traumatic Brain Injury Program 
Reauthorization Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF INJURIES.

    Part J of title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
280b et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 393C (42 U.S.C. 280b-1d) by adding at the 
        end the following:
    ``(c) National Concussion Surveillance System.--The Secretary, 
acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, may implement a national concussion surveillance system to 
determine the prevalence and incidence of concussion.''; and
            (2) in section 394A (42 U.S.C. 280b-3)--
                    (A) in subsection (b)--
                            (i) by striking ``393B and 393C'' and 
                        inserting ``393B, 393C(a), and 393C(b)''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``$6,564,000 for each of 
                        fiscal years 2015 through 2019'' and inserting 
                        ``$6,750,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 
                        through 2024''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) National Concussion Surveillance System.--To carry out 
section 393C(c), there are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for 
fiscal year 2019, and such sums as may be necessary for each fiscal 
year thereafter.''.

SEC. 3. STATE GRANTS FOR PROJECTS REGARDING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY.

    Section 1252 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300d-52) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ``, acting through the 
        Administrator for the Administration for Community Living,'' 
        after ``The Secretary'';
            (2) by striking subsection (e);
            (3) by redesignating subsections (f) through (j) as 
        subsections (e) through (i), respectively; and
            (4) in subsection (i), as so redesignated, by striking 
        ``$5,500,000 for each of the fiscal years 2015 through 2019'' 
        and inserting ``$7,321,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 
        through 2024''.

SEC. 4. STATE GRANTS FOR PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY SERVICES.

    Section 1253 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300d-53) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ``, acting through the 
        Administrator for the Administration for Community Living,'' 
        after ``The Secretary''; and
            (2) in subsection (l), by striking ``$3,100,000 for each of 
        the fiscal years 2015 through 2019'' and inserting ``$4,000,000 
        for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2024''.
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