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119-hr-7717119th CongressWALLET

Community Health Profiles Act

Sponsored By: Representative Torres, Ritchie [D-NY-15]

Introduced

Summary

Neighborhood-level, publicly accessible health data would be made easier to build, share, and compare across communities. This bill would create a CDC-run pilot to award competitive grants to eligible entities to develop or expand local data platforms and to establish a National Neighborhood Health Data Repository for de-identified, aggregated submissions.

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  • Community members would get public dashboards with neighborhood, ZIP code, or census tract data and downloadable visuals across health, housing, and economic indicators to support local planning and advocacy.
  • State and local health departments, municipalities, and counties could partner with academics or nonprofits to receive grant support and CDC technical assistance for integrating federal, state, and local data and for aligning with interoperability and privacy standards.
  • Researchers, policymakers, and local planners would have a searchable national repository that aggregates submitted data, enables cross-jurisdiction comparisons, and includes visualization, filtering, and download tools. An independent advisory panel must certify the aggregation methodology and an evaluation report to Congress is due within one year. The program would end four years after it is established.

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Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Key program definitions and scope

If enacted, the bill would define terms used for the pilot program. It would define health disparity, local jurisdiction, and refer to the existing legal meaning of medically underserved community. It would say neighborhood-level means areas like ZIP codes or census tracts and define a publicly accessible health data platform as a website, dashboard, or tool that shows and lets people download data.

Local neighborhood health data grants

If enacted, the bill would direct HHS (through CDC) to run a pilot that gives competitive grants to up to 25 state or local health agencies or city/county governments. Grants would pay to build or improve neighborhood-level public health data websites and dashboards covering social, housing, maternal and child health, healthy living, health care, and health outcomes. Grantees would train local users and submit de-identified, aggregated neighborhood data in a Secretary-specified format to a new public National Neighborhood Health Data Repository. The pilot must start within one year of enactment, requires an initial report to Congress within one year of start, and would end four years after it begins.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Torres, Ritchie [D-NY-15]

NY • D

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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