Editorial Notes
Amendments

2014—Subsec. (h)(3). Pub. L. 113–152 amended par. (3) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The term ‘trauma’ means any serious injury that could result in loss of life or in significant disability and that would meet pre-hospital triage criteria for transport to a designated trauma center.”

2008—Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 110–206, § 5(1), substituted “Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions” for “Labor and Human Resources”.

Subsec. (d)(4)(D). Pub. L. 110–206, § 5(2), substituted “brain injury” for “head brain injury”.

Subsec. (i). Pub. L. 110–206, § 5(3), inserted “, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2009 through 2012” before period at end.

2000—Subsec. (d)(4)(A). Pub. L. 106–310, § 1303(a)(1), substituted “degree of brain injury” for “degree of injury”.

Subsec. (d)(4)(B). Pub. L. 106–310, § 1303(a)(2), which directed amendment of subpar. (B) by substituting “acute brain injury” for “acute injury”, could not be executed because the phrase “acute injury” does not appear in text.

Subsec. (d)(4)(C). Pub. L. 106–310, § 1303(c)(1), struck out “and” after semicolon at end.

Subsec. (d)(4)(D). Pub. L. 106–310, § 1303(a)(3), (c)(2), substituted “brain injury treatment” for “injury treatment” and “; and” for period at end.

Subsec. (d)(4)(E). Pub. L. 106–310, § 1303(c)(3), added subpar. (E).

Subsec. (h)(4). Pub. L. 106–310, § 1303(b), substituted “anoxia due to trauma” for “anoxia due to near drowning” in second sentence and inserted before period at end “, after consultation with States and other appropriate public or nonprofit private entities”.

Subsec. (i). Pub. L. 106–310, § 1303(d), added subsec. (i).

1996—Subsec. (d)(4). Pub. L. 104–166, § 2(1), added par. (4).

Subsec. (h)(4). Pub. L. 104–166, § 2(2), added par. (4).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name

Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Commerce of House of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104–14, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress. Committee on Commerce of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives, and jurisdiction over matters relating to securities and exchanges and insurance generally transferred to Committee on Financial Services of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Jan. 3, 2001.

Traumatic Brain Injury Study; Consensus Conference

Pub. L. 104–166, § 4, July 29, 1996, 110 Stat. 1448, as amended by Pub. L. 106–310, div. A, title XIII, § 1302, Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1138, required the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study of traumatic brain injuries, to submit a report to Congress within 18 months of July 29, 1996 on the findings of such study and a report within 3 years of that date on certain therapeutic interventions and guidelines developed in the study, and to conduct a national consensus conference on managing traumatic brain injury and related rehabilitation concerns.