1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Health Standards To Advance Transparency, Integrity, Science, Technology Infrastructure, and Confidential Statistics Act of 2020 or the Health STATISTICS Act of 2020 . 2. Improving public health data Title XXXI of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300kk ) is amended— (1) by inserting before section 3101 the following subtitle designation and heading: A In general ; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subtitle: B Public health common data standards 3111. Treatment of public health data (a) Standardized reporting (1) In general The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall— (A) adopt and update as necessary uniform standards for State and local health departments to report data to the Centers; and (B) in adopting and updating standards under this subsection, give deference to— (i) corresponding standards developed by standards development organizations and voluntary consensus-based standards bodies; and (ii) the recommendations of the working group established under paragraph (3). (2) Requirements The standards under paragraph (1) shall— (A) be consistent with— (i) standards for the interoperability of health information technology under subtitle A; (ii) Office of Management and Budget Circular A–119 (or any successor thereto); (iii) Office of Management and Budget standards for race and ethnicity and other relevant measures