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This bill — the Traumatic Brain Injury Program Reauthorization Act of 2018 — would reauthorize a national concussion surveillance system to determine concussions’ prevalence and incidence. This surveillance system would act under the authority of the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), providing $5 million in funds to carry out the national concussion surveillance system.

The bill would also provide for state grants for concussion rehabilitation, protection, and advocacy services, which would be handled by the Administration for Community Living (ACL). It would increase funding for state grants to improve access to both rehabilitation and other traumatic brain injury (TBI) services from $5.5 million to $7.321 million in fiscal years 2019 through 2024. Finally, it would increase state grant funding for TBI protection and advocacy services from $3.1 million to $4 million in fiscal years 2019 through 2024.

In total, the bill would authorize $23 million a year over the 2020-2023 period.

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