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H.R. 2757: Public Health Violence Prevention Act

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H.R. 2757: Public Health Violence Prevention Act

115th Congress · introduced 2017-05-26 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-05-26 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Public Health Violence Prevention Act

Plain summary

Public Health Violence Prevention Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Center for Violence Prevention in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to take over the duties and authorities relating to violence prevention from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. The National Center for Violence Prevention, to address violence and prevention as health issues, must establish: (1) the Public Health Violence Prevention Program to award competitive grants to public health departments, schools of public health, criminal justice agencies, and public school districts, with preference given to projects serving areas with the highest rates of violence or the highest increases in violence; and (2) the Private Health Care Sector Violence Prevention Program to award competitive grants to health care providers, community-based organizations, and academic medical centers. The bill establishes the National Health Violence Prevention Program with the following offices and programs: the Office of Applied Violence Prevention Research, the National Advisory Board on Violence Prevention, the Violence Prevention Training Program, the Office of Data Collection and Evaluation, and the Office of Violence Prevention Education and Outreach. The Department of Health and Human Services must rename the Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury, and Environmental Health as the Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Violence, Injury, and Environmental Health.

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Official text

Public Health Violence Prevention Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] · 1 cosponsors

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Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] reported raising $998,074 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr2757 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115