; or (B) for providing federal financial assistance for health care, biomedical research, or health services research or for otherwise improving the health of the public; (2) the term primary language data includes spoken and written primary language data; and (3) the term primary language data collection activities includes identifying, collecting, storing, tracking, and analyzing primary language data and information on the methods used to meet the language access needs of individuals with limited-English proficiency. (g) Authorization of appropriations There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2024. 3432. Establishing grants for data collection improvement activities (a) In general The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and in consultation with the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health, the Director of the National Institutes of Health, the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, and the Director of the National Center for Health Statistics, shall establish a technical assistance program under which the Secretary provides grants to eligible entities to assist such entities in complying with section 3431. (b) Types of assistance A grant provided under this section may be used to— (1) enhance or upgrade computer technology that will facilitate collection, analysis, and reporting of racial, ethnic, primary language, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, socioeconomic status, and disability status data; (2) improve methods for health data collection and analysis, including additional population groups if such groups can be aggregated into the race and ethnicity categories outlined by standards developed under section 3101; (3) develop mechanisms for submitting collected data subject to any applicable privacy and confidentiality regulations