State Trauma Legislation

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National Trauma Legislation

Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act (Title XII of the Public Health Service Act)

What is it?
Title XII was established by the Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act in 1990 and provides federal seed money to assist states in planning and developing statewide trauma care systems.

What is the current issue?
This program has been funded at $3 million and $3.5 million for fiscal years 2001 and 2002 respectively. Despite this investment one-half of the states in the United States are still without a statewide trauma care system. Currently, support is being generated to increase the federal funding of this Act specifically the Trauma Systems provisions and to reduce the state matching requirements.

What can I do?
Watch for Action Alerts under Legislative News.