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 collect data regarding the prevalence and incidence of concussions.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3657 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3657

           To reauthorize the Traumatic Brain Injury program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 26, 2018

 Mr. Hatch (for himself and Mr. Casey) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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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 Data Collection and Analysis.--The 
Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, may implement concussion data collection and 
analysis to determine the prevalence and incidence of concussion.''; 
and
            (2) in section 394A(b)(42 U.S.C. 280b-3(b)), by striking 
        ``$6,564,000 for each of fiscal years 2015 through 2019'' and 
        inserting ``$11,750,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 through 
        2024''.

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 2020 
        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 2020 through 2024''.
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