HR 3334 IHCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To amend the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Center for Health Statistics, to allocate such sums as may be necessary for the collection of statistics from enhanced birth certificates.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

July 24, 2009CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Mr. COHEN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and CommerceCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To amend the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Center for Health Statistics, to allocate such sums as may be necessary for the collection of statistics from enhanced birth certificates.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘Enhanced Birth Certificate Research Act of 2009’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 2. COLLECTION OF STATISTICS FROM ENHANCED BIRTH CERTIFICATES.

Subsection (n) of section 306 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 242k) is amended by adding at the end the following:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(4) Of the amount appropriated for the Center each fiscal year, the Secretary, acting through the Center, shall use such funds as may be necessary to collect statistics from enhanced birth certificates. In carrying out the preceding sentence, the Secretary shall give priority to collecting statistics on infant mortality.’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink