# 119-hr-7116: SEPSIS Act

119-hr-7116, SEPSIS Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Norcross, Donald [D-NJ-1] (D-NJ); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-7116
- Congress: 119
- Title: SEPSIS Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-01-15
- Sponsor: Rep. Norcross, Donald [D-NJ-1] (D-NJ)
- Cosponsors: 7
- Policy area: Health
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-21

## Summary

**This bill would create a CDC-directed sepsis program** to push prevention, better data, and hospital support for earlier detection and treatment. It sets reporting rules, coordinates federal data and quality measures, and funds a voluntary hospital recognition effort. - Families and children: Requires improved pediatric sepsis data and annual briefings on pediatric sepsis rates and reduction efforts, targeting a condition that affects about 1.7 million people and causes about 350,000 deaths each year. - Hospitals and clinicians: Directs a CDC team to lead an education campaign on hospital sepsis best practices, track hospital adoption with an assessment tool, and run an optional Honor Roll that benchmarks early detection and treatment. Readmission rates are high, with about 1 in 5 readmitted within 30 days. - Federal coordination and research: Orders a report within one year on developing adult and pediatric sepsis outcome measures, updates to core interoperability data elements, data sharing across HHS, and evaluations of the Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements. *Authorizes $20 million per year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030, totaling $100 million in authorized funding and increasing federal spending by that amount.*

## Cosponsors (7)

- Rep. Kean, Thomas H. [R-NJ-7] (R-NJ), 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1] (R-PA), 2026-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5] (D-NJ), 2026-01-27T00:00:00.000Z
- Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] (D-DC), 2026-02-04T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17] (R-NY), 2026-05-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. LaLota, Nick [R-NY-1] (R-NY), 2026-06-03T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Rouzer, David [R-NC-7] (R-NC), 2026-07-13T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- CDC sepsis team and reporting: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would require the Secretary, through the CDC Director, to maintain a sepsis team. The team would lead a hospital education campaign on sepsis best practices, improve pediatric sepsis data, update sepsis data elements in U.S. health IT standards, and share information with CMS t…
- Federal funding for sepsis programs: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would authorize $20,000,000 a year for CDC sepsis work for each fiscal year 2026 through 2030. That totals $100 million of authorized funding over five years, subject to future appropriations. The money would be available to carry out the new CDC sepsis program, including hospi…
- Voluntary hospital sepsis recognition: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would let the Secretary establish a voluntary program to recognize hospitals that maintain or improve sepsis programs. Hospitals would apply and the Secretary would set public benchmarks for early detection, effective treatment, and reducing sepsis burden. The program is volunt…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-9877: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026
- 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act
- 119-hr-1065: Protect Our Letter Carriers Act of 2025
- 119-hr-5509: Safe Step Act
- 119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-7116 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7116)

## Related
- [119-hr-9877: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9877)
- [119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151)
- [119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1262)
- [119-hr-1065: Protect Our Letter Carriers Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1065)
- [119-hr-5509: Safe Step Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5509)
- [119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage A…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-842)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7116 (as of 2026-09-21).