Addressing Boarding and Crowding in the Emergency Department

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 2936 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2936 To amend the Public Health Service Act to allow certain public health data modernization grants to be used to track hospital bed capacity, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 17, 2025 Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania (for himself and Mrs. Dingell) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act to allow certain public health data modernization grants to be used to track hospital bed capacity, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Addressing Boarding and Crowding in the Emergency Department Act of 2025'' or the ``ABC-ED Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. ALLOWING PUBLIC HEALTH DATA MODERNIZATION GRANTS TO BE USED TO TRACK HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY. Section 2823(a)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300hh-33(a)(1)) is amended-- (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``and'' at the end; (2) in subparagraph (B)(viii), by striking the period at the end and inserting ``; and''; and (3) by adding at the end the following: ``(C) award grants or cooperative agreements to appropriate entities for the expansion and modernization of public health data systems by-- ``(i) developing State- or region-wide, real-time (or near real-time), accurate, and scalable systems for tracking-- ``(I) hospital bed capacity; and