Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Protecting Survivors from Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 2023”.
Protecting Survivors from Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 2023
A BILL
To protect survivors from brain injury by authorizing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to collect data on the prevalence of brain injuries resulting from domestic and sexual violence.
Sec. 2 Data collection
Collection of data on brain injuries related to domestic and sexual violence—
In general— The Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this section as the “Secretary”) shall collect data on the prevalence of brain injuries resulting from domestic or sexual violence in order to assist the Department in understanding, addressing, and allocating resources to prevent, reduce, and treat such injuries, the impacts of such injuries, and the causes of such injuries.
Collection— In carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall, through existing surveys on domestic or sexual violence, collect data on the prevalence and circumstances surrounding brain injuries due to domestic or sexual violence. The Secretary shall allow for data collection for not fewer than 2 years.
Privacy— Data shall be collected, stored, and analyzed under this section in a manner that protects individual privacy and confidentiality.
Report— Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to relevant congressional committees, and post on the website of the Department of Health and Human Services, a report that shall contain—
an analysis of the data collected under subsection (a) relating to the connection between domestic and sexual violence and brain injuries; and
a description of the steps that the Department of Health and Human Services is taking to increase awareness, increase services, decrease prevalence, and otherwise respond to the public health issue of brain injury that results from domestic and sexual violence.
Funding— There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.
Definition— In this section, the term brain injury means an injury that impacts the function of the brain as a result of trauma, choking, or strangulation due to domestic or sexual violence.