This bill directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to run a national, evidence-based public awareness campaign about type 1 diabetes. The campaign must provide and maintain written materials about early symptoms, screening availability, benefits of screening, and resources for people newly diagnosed. It requires public service announcements using media (including social media, TV, radio, print, and the internet), in-person or virtual communications, and trusted figures.
The CDC must consult with groups such as the National Academy of Medicine, health care provider associations, community health worker groups, nonprofits (including those serving communities most affected), State, local, and Tribal health departments, elementary and secondary school organizations, and institutions of higher education. The campaign must develop culturally and linguistically competent materials tailored to communities with the largest increases in type 1 diabetes in the past five years and other communities the Secretary chooses. Materials and information must be shared with health care providers and facilities, public health departments, elementary and secondary schools, and colleges and universities.
The Secretary will carry out the campaign through grants or cooperative agreements with private nonprofit entities experienced in similar campaigns. The bill also requires grants or cooperative agreements with State, local, and Tribal public health departments to help increase screening and to tell people where they can get screened locally. The law defines certain terms, requires message testing, and says the campaign should be coordinated with other federal efforts. The bill authorizes $5,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031 to carry out the campaign. It also requires a report to two congressional committees within one year that includes a qualitative assessment of campaign activities and their impact on detection, screening, and management.
The bill authorizes $5,000,000 for each fiscal year 2027 through 2031, to remain available until expended, to carry out the subsection that establishes the campaign. No publicly available information on additional costs or an overall federal budget estimate is provided in the bill text or metadata.
Proponents, as reflected by the bill language, aim to increase public and provider awareness of type 1 diabetes, improve early detection and screening, deliver culturally and linguistically appropriate information, and support local efforts to expand access to screening through grants and partnerships.
No publicly available information on opponents' views is included in the bill text or provided metadata.