§300c–14 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

§300c–14 Report to Congress

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IX— - GENETIC DISEASES, HEMOPHILIA PROGRAMS, AND SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME › Part Part B— - Sudden Unexpected Infant Death, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and Sudden Unexpected Death in Childhood › § 300c–14

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

By December 31, 2022, and every two years after, the Secretary of Health and Human Services must send a report to the Senate HELP Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The report must list counts of sudden unexpected infant deaths and sudden unexpected deaths in childhood (including unexplained cases), show race and State breakdowns, summarize investigation and autopsy findings, recommend ways to reduce these deaths, assess prevention methods, and describe work done under section 300c‑11. The terms are defined in section 300c‑11.

Title 42, §300c–14

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(a)Not later than 2 years after December 31, 2020, and biennially thereafter, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report that contains, with respect to the reporting period—

(1)information regarding the incidence and number of sudden unexpected infant death and sudden unexpected death in childhood (including the number of such infant and child deaths that remain unexplained after investigation), including, to the extent practicable—

(A)a summary of such information by racial and ethnic group, and by State;

(B)aggregate information obtained from death scene investigations and autopsies; and

(C)recommendations for reducing the incidence of sudden unexpected infant death and sudden unexpected death in childhood;

(2)an assessment of the extent to which various approaches of reducing and preventing sudden unexpected infant death and sudden unexpected death in childhood have been effective; and

(3)a description of the activities carried out under section 300c–11 of this title.

(b)In this section, the terms “sudden unexpected infant death” and “sudden unexpected death in childhood” have the meanings given such terms in section 300c–11 of this title.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Scarlett’s Sunshine on Sudden Unexpected Death Act, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

§300c–14 Report to Congress

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Title 42, §300c–14

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