119-hr2884

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2884 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 2884

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for public health 
 research and investment into understanding and eliminating structural 
 racism and police violence.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 April 10, 2025

 Ms. Pressley (for herself, Mrs. Beatty, Ms. Brown, Mr. Carson, Mrs. 
Cherfilus-McCormick, Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, 
Ms. McClellan, Mr. Nadler, Ms. Norton, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Ms. Omar, Mr. 
 Pocan, Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Sewell, Mr. Smith of 
Washington, Ms. Stansbury, Mr. Takano, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. 
 Torres of New York, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, and Mrs. Watson Coleman) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 Energy and Commerce

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 A BILL

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for public health 
 research and investment into understanding and eliminating structural 
 racism and police violence.

 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 ``Anti-Racism in Public Health Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

 In this Act:

    (1) Antiracism.--The term ``antiracism'' is a collection of 
 antiracist policies that lead to racial equity, and are 
 substantiated by antiracist ideas.

    (2) Antiracist.--The term ``antiracist'' is any measure 
 that produces or sustains racial equity between racial groups.

SEC. 3. PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH AND INVESTMENT IN DISMANTLING STRUCTURAL 
 RACISM.

 Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 243 
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

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SEC. 320C. NATIONAL CENTER ON ANTIRACISM AND HEALTH.

 ``

    (a) In General.--
 ``

    (1) National center.--There is established within the 
 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a center to be known 
 as the `National Center on Antiracism and Health' (referred to 
 in this section as the `Center'). The Director of the Centers 
 for Disease Control and Prevention shall appoint a director to 
 head the Center who has experience living in and working with 
 racial and ethnic minority communities. The Center shall 
 promote public health by--
 ``
        (A) declaring racism a public health crisis and 
 naming racism as an historical and present threat to 
 the physical and mental health and well-being of the 
 United States and world;
 ``
        (B) aiming to develop new knowledge in the 
 science and practice of antiracism, including by 
 identifying the mechanisms by which racism operates in 
 the provision of health care and in systems that impact 
 health and well-being;
 ``
            (C) transferring that knowledge into practice, 
 including by developing interventions that dismantle 
 the mechanisms of racism and replace such mechanisms 
 with equitable structures, policies, practices, norms, 
 and values so that a healthy society can be realized; 
 and
 ``
            (D) contributing to a national and global 
 conversation regarding the impacts of racism on the 
 health and well-being of the United States and world.
 ``

    (2) General duties.--The Secretary, acting through the 
 Center, shall undertake activities to carry out the mission of 
 the Center as described in paragraph

    (1) , such as the 
 following:
 ``
        (A) Conduct research into, collect, analyze and 
 make publicly available data on, and provide leadership 
 and coordination for the science and practice of 
 antiracism, the public health impacts of structural 
 racism, and the effectiveness of intervention 
 strategies to address these impacts. Topics of research 
 and data collection under this subparagraph may include 
 identifying and understanding--
 ``
            (i) policies and practices that have a 
 disparate impact on the health and well-being 
 of communities of color;
 ``
            (ii) the public health impacts of 
 implicit racial bias, White supremacy, 
 weathering, xenophobia, discrimination, and 
 prejudice;
 ``
            (iii) the social determinants of health 
 resulting from structural racism, including 
 poverty, housing, employment, political 
 participation, and environmental factors; and
 ``
            (iv) the intersection of racism and other 
 systems of oppression, including as related to 
 age, sexual orientation, gender identity, and 
 disability status.
 ``
        (B) Award noncompetitive grants and cooperative 
 agreements to eligible public and nonprofit private 
 entities, including State, local, territorial, and 
 Tribal health agencies and organizations, for the 
 research and collection, analysis, and reporting of 
 data on the topics described in subparagraph
        (A) .
 ``
            (C) Establish, through grants or cooperative 
 agreements, at least 3 regional centers of excellence, 
 located in racial and ethnic minority communities, in 
 antiracism for the purpose of developing new knowledge 
 in the science and practice of antiracism in health by 
 researching, understanding, and identifying the 
 mechanisms by which racism operates in the health 
 space, racial and ethnic inequities in health care 
 access and outcomes, the history of successful 
 antiracist movements in health, and other antiracist 
 public health work.
 ``
            (D) Establish a clearinghouse within the Centers 
 for Disease Control and Prevention for the collection 
 and storage of data generated under the programs 
 implemented under this section for which there is not 
 an otherwise existing surveillance system at the 
 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Such data 
 shall--
 ``
            (i) be comprehensive and disaggregated, 
 to the extent practicable, by including racial, 
 ethnic, primary language, sex, gender identity, 
 sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, 
 and disability disparities;
 ``
            (ii) be made publicly available;
 ``
            (iii) protect the privacy of individuals 
 whose information is included in such data; and
 ``
            (iv) comply with privacy protections 
 under the regulations promulgated under 

section 264
            (c) of the Health Insurance Portability and 
 Accountability Act of 1996.
 ``
        (E) Provide information and education to the 
 public on the public health impacts of structural 
 racism and on antiracist public health interventions.
 ``
        (F) Consult with other Centers and National 
 Institutes within the Centers for Disease Control and 
 Prevention, including the Office of Minority Health and 
 Health Equity and the Center for State, Tribal, Local, 
 and Territorial Support, to ensure that scientific and 
 programmatic activities initiated by the agency 
 consider structural racism in their designs, 
 conceptualizations, and executions, which shall 
 include--
 ``
            (i) putting measures of racism in 
 population-based surveys;
 ``
            (ii) establishing a Federal Advisory 
 Committee on racism and health for the Centers 
 for Disease Control and Prevention;
 ``
            (iii) developing training programs, 
 curricula, and seminars for the purposes of 
 training public health professionals and 
 researchers around issues of race, racism, and 
 antiracism;
 ``
            (iv) providing standards and best 
 practices for programming and grant recipient 
 compliance with Federal data collection 
 standards, including 

section 4302 of the 
 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; and
 ``
            (v) establishing leadership and 
 stakeholder councils with experts and leaders 
 in racism and public health disparities.
 ``
        (G) Coordinate with the Indian Health Service and 
 with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 
 Tribal Advisory Committee to ensure meaningful Tribal 
 consultation, the gathering of information from Tribal 
 authorities, and respect for Tribal data sovereignty.
 ``
        (H) Engage in government to government 
 consultation with Indian Tribes and Tribal 
 organizations.
 ``
            (I) At least every 2 years, produce and publicly 
 post on the Centers for Disease Control and 
 Prevention's website a report on antiracist activities 
 completed by the Center, which may include newly 
 identified antiracist public health practices.
 ``

    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this 
section.''.

SEC. 4. PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH AND INVESTMENT IN POLICE VIOLENCE.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
establish within the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control 
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (referred to in this 
section as the ``Center'') a law enforcement violence prevention 
program.

    (b) General Duties.--In implementing the program under subsection

    (a) , the Center shall conduct research into, and provide leadership and 
coordination for--

    (1) the understanding and promotion of knowledge about the 
 public health impacts of uses of force by law enforcement, 
 including police brutality and violence;

    (2) developing public health interventions and perspectives 
 for eliminating deaths, injury, trauma, and negative mental 
 health effects from police presence and interactions, including 
 police brutality and violence; and

    (3) ensuring comprehensive data collection, analysis, and 
 reporting regarding police violence and misconduct in 
 consultation with the Department of Justice and independent 
 researchers.
            (c) Functions.--Under the program under subsection

    (a) , the Center 
shall--

    (1) summarize and enhance the knowledge of the 
 distribution, status, and characteristics of law enforcement-
 related death, trauma, and injury;

    (2) conduct research and prepare, with the assistance of 
 State public health departments--
        (A) statistics on law enforcement-related death, 
 injury, and brutality;
        (B) studies of the factors, including legal, 
 socioeconomic, discrimination, and other factors that 
 correlate with or influence police brutality;
            (C) public information about uses of force by law 
 enforcement, including police brutality and violence, 
 for the practical use of the public health community, 
 including publications that synthesize information 
 relevant to the national goal of understanding police 
 violence and methods for its control;
            (D) information to identify socioeconomic groups, 
 communities, and geographic areas in need of study, and 
 a strategic plan for research necessary to comprehend 
 the extent and nature of police uses of force by law 
 enforcement, including police brutality and violence, 
 and determine what options exist to reduce or eradicate 
 death and injury that result; and
        (E) best practices in police violence prevention in 
 other countries;

    (3) award grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to 
 provide for the conduct of epidemiologic research on uses of 
 force by law enforcement, including police brutality and 
 violence, by Federal, State, local, and private agencies, 
 institutions, organizations, and individuals;

    (4) award grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to 
 community groups, independent research organizations, academic 
 institutions, and other entities to support, execute, or 
 conduct research on interventions to reduce or eliminate uses 
 of force by law enforcement, including police brutality and 
 violence;

    (5) coordinate with the Department of Justice, and other 
 Federal, State, and local agencies on the standardization of 
 data collection, storage, and retrieval necessary to collect, 
 evaluate, analyze, and disseminate information about the extent 
 and nature of uses of force by law enforcement, including 
 police brutality and violence, as well as options for the 
 eradication of such practices;

    (6) submit an annual report to Congress on research 
 findings with recommendations to improve data collection and 
 standardization and to disrupt processes in policing that 
 preserve and reinforce racism and racial disparities in public 
 health;

    (7) conduct primary research and explore uses of force by 
 law enforcement, including police brutality and violence, and 
 options for its control; and

    (8) study alternatives to law enforcement response as a 
 method of reducing police violence.
            (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.
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