1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences Act or the PACE Act . 2. Programs to prevent adverse childhood experiences and promote positive childhood experiences Part J of title III of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 280b et seq. ) is amended by inserting after section 393D the following: 393E. Programs to prevent adverse childhood experiences and promote positive childhood experiences (a) Grant program (1) In general The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall award grants or cooperative agreements to States, territories, Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations, and local governmental entities for purposes of carrying out programs to prevent adverse childhood experiences and promoting positive childhood experiences. (2) Use of funds Recipients of an award under this subsection shall use such award to carry out any of the following activities: (A) Prevention of adverse childhood experiences and promotion of positive childhood experiences through— (i) data-driven, comprehensive, evidence-based adverse childhood experience prevention strategies and approaches; and (ii) activities that leverage multi-sector partnerships and resources to coordinate and implement prevention activities. (B) Activities to improve quality and consistency of data collection and analysis regarding the prevention of adverse childhood experiences and the promotion of positive childhood experiences, and use of such data to inform the implementation of prevention strategies, which may include— (i) evaluating data to continuously identify— (I) specific types of adverse childhood experiences with high burden; (II) specific types of positive childhood experiences with low prevalence; and (III) geographically and demographically specific subpopulations of interest in the State, territory, locality, or land of the Tribe that have a disproportionate burden of adverse childhood experiences that contribute to health inequities