Ellie’s Law

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 2678 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2678 To provide for further comprehensive research at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke on unruptured intracranial aneurysms, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 7, 2025 Mr. Fitzpatrick (for himself, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Rutherford, and Ms. Scanlon) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To provide for further comprehensive research at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke on unruptured intracranial aneurysms, 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 ``Ellie Helton, Lisa Colagrossi, Kristen Shafer Englert, Teresa Anne Lawrence, and Jennifer Sedney Focused Research Act'' or ``Ellie's Law''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. The Congress makes the following findings: (1) An estimated 6.8 million people in the United States, or 1 in 50 people, have an unruptured brain aneurysm. (2) Each year, an estimated 30,000 people in the United States suffer a brain aneurysm rupture. Ruptured brain aneurysms are fatal in about 50 percent of cases. Of those who survive, about 66 percent suffer some permanent neurological deficit. (3) Brain aneurysms are more likely to occur in women than in men by a 3 to 2 ratio and nearly twice as likely to rupture in African Americans (2.1 to 1 ratio) and Hispanics (1.67 to 1 ratio) than Caucasians. This Act represents all those who have been affected and died due to a ruptured brain aneurysm, and their loved ones. People who experienced a brain aneurysm rupture include the following: