Title: To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a study on the health outcomes of the use of e-cigarettes during pregnancy, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to study health outcomes related to the use of e-cigarettes during pregnancy. HHS must also address the harmful effects of tobacco use on pregnancy in its youth-focused tobacco-prevention campaigns.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6068 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6068

 To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an 
  agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and 
  Medicine to conduct a study on the health outcomes of the use of e-
          cigarettes during pregnancy, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2020

  Ms. Moore introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an 
  agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and 
  Medicine to conduct a study on the health outcomes of the use of e-
          cigarettes during pregnancy, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. STUDY ON HEALTH OUTCOMES OF USE OF E-CIGARETTES DURING 
              PREGNANCY.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, 
Engineering, and Medicine under which the National Academies agree to 
conduct a study on the health outcomes of the use of e-cigarettes 
during pregnancy. Such study shall--
            (1) examine any data gaps in existing Federal and State 
        tobacco use surveillance systems (including the Pregnancy Risk 
        Assessment Monitoring System), with respect to the incidence of 
        pregnant women who use e-cigarettes and birth and other health 
        outcomes for such women and their children;
            (2) analyze and assess any ongoing Federal research with 
        respect to that use; and
            (3) provide recommendations with respect to additional 
        research, programs, and activities the Federal Government and 
        States can undertake to assist pregnant women in ceasing to use 
        e-cigarettes.
    (b) Report.--The agreement entered into under subsection (a) shall 
include a requirement that the National Academies, not later than 
October 1, 2023, submit to the Committees on Appropriations and Energy 
and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committees on 
Appropriations and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate 
a report on the results of the study conducted pursuant to subsection 
(a).

SEC. 2. YOUTH TOBACCO PREVENTION PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall ensure that any 
youth tobacco prevention public awareness campaigns conducted by the 
Department or any of its agencies, including the Food and Drug 
Administration, include awareness and education materials designed to 
educate women of reproductive age (including pregnant women) on the 
harmful effects on fetal and postnatal development of the use of 
tobacco, nicotine, and e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine 
delivery systems.
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