SEPSIS Act

This bill would require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to maintain a sepsis team. The team would run an education campaign on hospital sepsis best practices, improve data collection on sepsis in children, share information with Medicare and Medicaid officials on sepsis quality measures, and update sepsis data standards. The CDC would report to Congress within one year on sepsis outcome measures and give Congress yearly briefings on hospital sepsis practices and child sepsis rates. The bill would let the Secretary of Health and Human Services create a voluntary program to recognize hospitals with effective sepsis programs, and it would authorize $20 million per year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030.

Full text and official record on Congress.gov

Sponsors

• Donald Norcross Democrat sponsor
• 7 cosponsors