To direct the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish a gun violence prevention and public safety database.

If passed, the CDC will develop a centralized database on gun violence, creating standardized national data on firearm injuries and deaths. This mirrors successful CDC surveillance systems for communicable diseases and chronic conditions. Federal gun violence research funding has been constrained since 1996 under the Dickey Amendment (which prohibited CDC use of funds to advocate for gun control, though research itself was not prohibited). Expanded data infrastructure could increase research publication rates and inform state/local public health interventions. States with existing gun violence surveillance systems (like New York's Fatality Review Teams) demonstrate that data-driven approaches can identify prevention targets, though research on intervention effectiveness remains contested between public health and gun rights communities.