1. Short title This Act may be cited as the National Patient Safety Board Act of 2024 . 2. National Patient Safety Board (a) Establishment For the purpose of preventing and reducing patient safety events, there is hereby established, within the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, an independent board, to be known as the National Patient Safety Board (in this section referred to as the Board ). (b) Duties (1) In general For the purpose stated in subsection (a), the Board shall— (A) support Federal departments and agencies in monitoring and anticipating patient safety events; (B) provide expertise to study the context and causes of patient safety events and prevented patient safety events; and (C) formulate recommendations and solutions to prevent patient safety events from occurring. (2) Authority The Board shall have the sole authority to— (A) request changes to, or approve, the patient safety measures and solutions recommended by the Patient Safety Research and Development Division under subsection (g); (B) review each report transmitted to the Board under subsection (g)(7) and based on such review require the Director of such Division— (i) to conduct further studies; or (ii) to make revisions to the report; and (C) make any such report publicly available. (3) Timeline for public availability The Board shall ensure that each report transmitted to the Board under subsection (g)(7) is made publicly available not later than one year after commencement of the study that is the subject of the report. (4) Annual audit The Board shall undergo an annual audit. (5) Annual reports to Congress (A) Submission The Chair of the Board shall submit annual reports to the Congress on the progress of the Board in achieving the purpose stated in subsection (a). (B) Contents Each annual report under subparagraph (A) shall include— (i) input from the director of each division of the Board; (ii) detailed solutions; (iii) unaddressed needs