Accurate Reporting of Smoking Variants Act of 2020

Accurate Reporting of Smoking Variants Act of 2020

This bill requires the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to include, in the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, relevant strategies to capture in electronic health records an individual's use of electronic cigarettes, vaping devices, or other smoking variants in the same manner as the use of traditional tobacco products is captured in such records.

Currently, the collection of information about a patient's smoking status with respect to cigarettes or other traditional tobacco products is one of the measures used to determine meaningful use of electronic health records by health care providers.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8137 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8137

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure accurate and timely 
 reporting of smoking variants through updating the Federal Health IT 
                            Strategic Plan.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 28, 2020

Mr. Trone (for himself and Mr. Krishnamoorthi) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure accurate and timely 
 reporting of smoking variants through updating the Federal Health IT 
                            Strategic Plan.

    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 ``Accurate Reporting of Smoking 
Variants Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has 
        reported 2,807 lung injuries and 68 confirmed deaths from 
        vaping-related injuries.
            (2) According to the 2019 National Youth Tobacco Survey, 
        over 5 million kids were reported to be currently using 
        electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), or e-cigarettes.
            (3) Repeated prolonged exposure to aerosols founds in e-
        cigarettes and vaping devices pose considerable potential risk, 
        the long-term health consequences of which also remain to be 
        determined.

SEC. 3. ENSURING ACCURATE AND TIMELY REPORTING OF SMOKING VARIANTS.

    (a) Updating the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan.--Section 
3001(c)(3)(A) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300jj-
11(c)(3)(A)) is amended by adding at the end the following new clause:
                            ``(ix) Strategies to enable, through the 
                        use of electronic health records, the accurate 
                        and timely collection and use of information on 
                        the use of electronic nicotine delivery 
                        systems, vaping, water pipes, and other 
                        variations of smoking in the same manner as, 
                        through such records, information on smoking is 
                        collected and used.''.
    (b) Regulations.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
issue such regulations as are necessary to carry out the amendment made 
by subsection (a).
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