Accurate Reporting of Smoking Variants Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-8137
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Trone, David J. [D-MD-6]
Introduced: 2020-08-28
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Computers and information technology

Drug, alcohol, tobacco use

Health information and medical records
Latest action: action_date: 2020-08-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-08-28
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Accurate Reporting of Smoking Variants Act of 2020</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to include, in the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, relevant strategies to capture in electronic health records an individual's use of electronic cigarettes, vaping devices, or other smoking variants in the same manner as the use of traditional tobacco products is captured in such records.</p> <p>Currently, the collection of information about a patient's smoking status with respect to cigarettes or other traditional tobacco products is one of the measures used to determine meaningful use of electronic health records by health care providers.</p> <p><br> </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8137 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 28, 2020 Mr. Trone (for himself and Mr. Krishnamoorthi ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure accurate and timely reporting of smoking variants through updating the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Accurate Reporting of Smoking Variants Act of 2020 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 2,807 lung injuries and 68 confirmed deaths from vaping-related injuries. (2) According to the 2019 National Youth Tobacco Survey, over 5 million kids were reported to be currently using electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), or e-cigarettes. (3) Repeated prolonged exposure to aerosols founds in e-cigarettes and vaping devices pose considerable potential risk, the long-term health consequences of which also remain to be determined. 3. Ensuring accurate and timely reporting of smoking variants (a) Updating the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan Section 3001(c)(3)(A) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300jj–11(c)(3)(A) ) is amended by adding at the end the following new clause: (ix) Strategies to enable, through the use of electronic health records, the accurate and timely collection and use of information on the use of electronic nicotine delivery systems, vaping, water pipes, and other variations of smoking in the same manner as, through such records, information on smoking is collected and used. . (b) Regulations Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall issue such regulations as are necessary to carry out the amendment made by subsection (a).