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Introduced April 10, 2025 by Ayanna Pressley · Last progress April 10, 2025
The bill directs federal resources to research, data, training, and programs aimed at identifying and reducing health and policing harms tied to structural racism—improving targeting and accountability for affected communities—while raising taxpayer costs, privacy risks, administrative burdens, and potential legal and political conflicts over definitions and implementation.
Millions in racial and ethnic minority communities will gain federally funded national and regional research centers and programs to study and address how structural racism harms health, creating sustained capacity to design interventions and inform policy.
Communities experiencing law-enforcement-related injuries and deaths—disproportionately racial minorities—will get a federal program, data, and evidence-based recommendations (including support for non-police response alternatives) to reduce harms and disparities.
Public release of disaggregated data (race, ethnicity, language, gender, SES, disability) plus biennial public reports and CDC coordination will improve transparency and allow policymakers and communities to target resources and monitor disparities more effectively.
Taxpayers may face materially higher federal spending because the bill authorizes unspecified sums (“such sums as may be necessary”) to create and run new centers, regional hubs, and grant programs.
Public release of highly disaggregated subgroup data increases the risk of privacy breaches or misuse of sensitive information about individuals and communities despite HIPAA-based protections.
The bill's outcome-focused, subjective definitions of 'antiracist' measures could prompt legal disputes and uncertainty about whether specific programs 'produce or sustain racial equity,' creating litigation risk and uneven application.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Creates a CDC National Center on Antiracism and a law-enforcement violence prevention program to study structural racism, expand data collection, fund research, and recommend interventions.
Creates a new National Center on Antiracism and Health at the CDC and a Law Enforcement Violence Prevention Program at the CDC’s injury center. The CDC center will define and study antiracism, collect and publish disaggregated data, fund research and regional centers in minority communities, provide public education and training, coordinate across agencies and with Tribal authorities, and report to the public every two years. The law-enforcement program will research public-health effects of uses of force, standardize and expand data collection in consultation with DOJ and independent researchers, fund studies and interventions, study alternatives to police response, and report annually to Congress with recommendations.