A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the health of children and help better understand and enhance awareness about unexpected sudden death in early life.
United States115th CongressS-3521Senate
Updated: Sep 27, 2018
Summary
Scarlett's Sunshine on Sudden Unexpected Death Act This bill establishes several programs and requirements relating to sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) and sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC). Among other things, the bill establishes grant programs to: promote comprehensive death scene investigations and autopsies relating to SUID and SUDC; improve infant and child death review programs; and promote education and outreach relating to SUID and SUDC. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must also study the use of genetic analysis and publish specified data regarding SUID and SUDC.
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Timeline
Latest companion bill action
HR-6931: To amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the health of children and help better understand and enhance awareness about unexpected sudden death in early life.Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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