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Creates a sepsis program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that establishes a dedicated sepsis team to lead education, improve pediatric and national sepsis data, coordinate quality measures and data standards, and support development of sepsis outcome measures. It requires a report on outcome measures within one year, annual briefings to congressional health committees, authorizes a voluntary hospital “honor roll,” and provides authorized funding of $20 million per year for fiscal years 2026–2030 to implement these activities.
About 1,700,000 individuals in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis each year, and about 350,000 individuals in the United States die from sepsis each year.
There is a need for increased Federal investment in research related to sepsis to build on research supported by the National Institutes of Health, including research with a pediatric focus supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
The infectious disease workforce, which helps reduce the burden of sepsis, needs additional support to recruit and retain health care professionals working in infection prevention and related patient care.
Sepsis is one of the most expensive conditions to treat in U.S. hospitals, and high spending is worsened by frequent hospital readmissions: 1 in 5 readmissions within 30 days and 1 in 3 within 180 days of discharge.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 80 percent of sepsis cases begin outside of the hospital.
Who is affected and how:
Patients and families: May benefit from improved sepsis detection, standardized outcome measures, better pediatric data, and broader adoption of effective care practices, which could reduce preventable deaths and readmissions.
Children and pediatric clinicians: The bill explicitly directs attention and data improvements toward pediatric sepsis, which could increase research, better measurement, and targeted education for pediatric care teams.
Hospitals and clinical staff: Hospitals may participate voluntarily in the "honor roll" and will be subject to new or coordinated quality measures and data standards; this could drive quality improvement efforts, clinical training, and data reporting work.
Health care providers and infectious disease workforce: Will receive federally coordinated education and technical assistance; the bill highlights workforce support needs and could enable expanded training resources.
CDC and federal public health system: CDC must stand up/maintain a sepsis team, produce outcome-measure reports, coordinate standards, and provide briefings—requiring staff time and data-analytic capacity supported by the authorized funding.
Researchers and measure developers: Will receive federal support and coordination to develop, validate, and scale sepsis outcome measures and to improve pediatric research datasets.
Net effect: The legislation centralizes federal coordination on sepsis, provides funding to build CDC capacity, and aims to improve measurement, data quality, and education to reduce preventable sepsis deaths. Implementation impact depends on appropriations and how CDC operationalizes measure development, data collection, and hospital engagement.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S3207-3208)
Introduced June 3, 2025 by Charles Ellis Schumer · Last progress June 3, 2025
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S3207-3208)
Introduced in Senate
