Heat Emergency Assessment and Tracking using AI Act

This bill would require the Department of Health and Human Services to study how many illnesses and deaths in the United States are caused by heat, working with state health and vital statistics offices, within 2 years. It would create a grant program for 3 to 5 hospitals, health departments, research institutions, or similar groups to build and test artificial intelligence tools that review medical records, death certificates, and coroner reports, along with local weather and job data, to identify heat-related illness and death. Grant recipients would also train clinicians, create heat response plans, and do community outreach. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would issue national guidelines for recording heat-related illness and deaths, and the bill authorizes $25 million per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031.

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Sponsors

• Michael Lawler Republican sponsor
• 1 cosponsors