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Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for public health research and investment into understanding and eliminating structural racism and police violence.
Introduced April 10, 2025 by Ayanna Pressley · Last progress April 10, 2025
The bill directs federal investment in research, data, training, and reporting to better understand and address structural racism and law‑enforcement–related harms — trading increased transparency and targeted intervention capacity for higher taxpayer cost, privacy risks, administrative burdens, and potential legal and political pushback.
Racial and ethnic minority communities will gain sustained federal research capacity (national Center and regional hubs) to study and address structural racism's health impacts and law‑enforcement‑related injuries, enabling targeted, evidence‑based interventions.
State, local, and federal agencies and the public will get standardized, publicly available, disaggregated data and biennial reports on race, ethnicity, language, SES, disability, and law‑enforcement‑related harms, improving transparency and informing policy and community responses.
Communities and local governments may benefit from development and support for non‑police response alternatives and data‑driven recommendations aimed at reducing injuries and deaths related to police use of force.
Taxpayers may face substantial and open‑ended federal spending because the bill authorizes 'such sums as may be necessary' to create and operate new Centers, regional hubs, and grant programs.
Public release of highly disaggregated demographic and subgroup data risks privacy breaches or misuse of sensitive information for covered individuals and small subgroups despite HIPAA‑based protections.
State, local, and federal entities — and law enforcement — could face significant administrative and compliance burdens from expanded data collection, coordination requirements, and ambiguous operational definitions, increasing costs and complexity.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Establishes a CDC National Center on Antiracism and Health and a CDC Law Enforcement Violence Prevention Program to study, fund, and report on racism and policing impacts on health.
Creates a new National Center on Antiracism and Health at CDC to research structural racism, build data systems, fund research and regional centers, develop training and public education, and report publicly. Also requires HHS/CDC to establish a Law Enforcement Violence Prevention Program to study public-health impacts of police use of force, standardize data collection, fund research and interventions, and report recommendations to Congress. The bill authorizes unspecified funding (“such sums as necessary”), requires Tribal consultation and data protections, and directs biennial (for the Center) and annual (for the policing program) public reporting, grants, and coordination with federal, state, Tribal, and local partners.