IMPROVING CHILDHOOD CANCER SURVEILLANCE.

SEC. 102. IMPROVING CHILDHOOD CANCER SURVEILLANCE. (a) In General.—Section 399E-1 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280e-3a) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) by striking “shall award a grant” and inserting “may make awards to State cancer registries”; and (B) by striking “track the epidemiology of pediatric cancer into a comprehensive nationwide registry of actual occurrences of pediatric cancer” and inserting “collect information to better understand the epidemiology of cancer in children, adolescents, and young adults”; and (C) by striking the second sentence and inserting “Such registries may be updated to include each occurrence of 132 STAT. 1386such cancers within a period of time designated by the Secretary.”; (2) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (d); (3) by inserting after subsection (a) the following: “(b) Activities.—The grants described in subsection (a) may be used for— “(1) identifying, recruiting, and training potential sources for reporting childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer cases; “(2) developing practices to ensure early inclusion of childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer cases in State cancer registries through the use of electronic reporting; “(3) collecting and submitting deidentified data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for inclusion in a national database that includes information on childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancers; and “(4) improving State cancer registries and the database described in paragraph (3), as appropriate, including to support the early inclusion of childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer cases. “(c) Coordination.—To encourage the greatest possible efficiency and effectiveness of federally supported efforts with respect to the activities described in this section, the Secretary shall ensure the appropriate coordination of programs supported under this section with other federally supported cancer registry programs and the activities under section 417E(a), as appropriate.” ; and (4) in subsection (d), as so redesignated, by striking “registry established pursuant to subsection (a)” and inserting “activities described in this section”. (b) Authorization of Appropriations.—Section 417E(d) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285a-11(d)) is amended— (1) by striking “2009 through 2013” and inserting “2019 through 2023”; and (2) by striking the second sentence.