[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 568 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 568

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the development 
     and operation of centers to conduct research with respect to 
     contraception and centers to conduct research with respect to 
                  infertility, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 25, 1993

  Mrs. Schroeder (for herself and Ms. Snowe) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the development 
     and operation of centers to conduct research with respect to 
     contraception and centers to conduct research with respect to 
                  infertility, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Contraception and Infertility 
Research Centers Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS AND CONTRACTS FOR RESEARCH CENTERS WITH RESPECT TO 
              CONTRACEPTION AND RESEARCH CENTERS WITH RESPECT TO 
              INFERTILITY.

    Subpart 7 of part C of title IV of the Public Health Service Act, 
as amended by section 3 of Public Law 101-613, is amended by adding at 
the end the following new section:

    ``research centers with respect to contraception and infertility

    ``Sec. 452A. (a) The Director of the Institute, after consultation 
with the advisory council for the Institute, shall make grants to, or 
enter into contracts with, public or nonprofit private entities for the 
development and operation of centers to conduct activities for the 
purpose of improving methods of contraception and centers to conduct 
activities for the purpose of improving methods of diagnosis and 
treatment of infertility.
    ``(b) In carrying out subsection (a), the Director of the Institute 
shall, subject to the extent of amounts made available in 
appropriations Acts, provide for the establishment of three centers 
with respect to contraception and for two centers with respect to 
infertility.
    ``(c)(1) Each center assisted under this section shall, in carrying 
out the purpose of the center involved--
            ``(A) conduct clinical and other applied research, 
        including--
                    ``(i) for centers with respect to contraception, 
                clinical trials of new or improved drugs and devices 
                for use by males and females (including barrier 
                methods); and
                    ``(ii) for centers with respect to infertility, 
                clinical trials of new or improved drugs and devices 
                for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility in males 
                and females;
            ``(B) develop protocols for training physicians, 
        scientists, nurses, and other health and allied health 
        professionals;
            ``(C) conduct training programs for such individuals;
            ``(D) develop model continuing education programs for such 
        professionals; and
            ``(E) disseminate information to such professionals and the 
        public.
    ``(2) A center may use funds provided under subsection (a) to 
provide stipends for health and allied health professionals enrolled in 
programs described in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1), and to provide 
fees to individuals serving as subjects in clinical trials conducted 
under such paragraph.
    ``(d) The Director of the Institute shall, as appropriate, provide 
for the coordination of information among the centers assisted under 
this section.
    ``(e) Each center assisted under subsection (a) shall use the 
facilities of a single institution, or be formed from a consortium of 
cooperating institutions, meeting such requirements as may be 
prescribed by the Director of the Institute.
    ``(f) Support of a center under subsection (a) may be for a period 
not exceeding 5 years. Such period may be extended for one or more 
additional periods not exceeding 5 years if the operations of such 
center have been reviewed by an appropriate technical and scientific 
peer review group established by the Director and if such group has 
recommended to the Director that such period should be extended.
    ``(g) For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are 
authorized to be appropriated $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1994, and 
such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1995 and 
1996.''.

SEC. 3. LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH WITH RESPECT TO 
              CONTRACEPTION AND INFERTILITY.

    Part F of title IV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 288 
et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 487A the following 
section:

``loan repayment program for research with respect to contraception and 
                              infertility

    ``Sec. 487B. (a) The Secretary, in consultation with the Director 
of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, shall 
establish a program of entering into agreements with qualified health 
professionals (including graduate students) under which such health 
professionals agree to conduct research with respect to contraception, 
or with respect to infertility, in consideration of the Federal 
Government agreeing to repay, for each year of such service, not more 
than $20,000 of the principal and interest of the educational loans of 
such health professionals.
    ``(b) The provisions of sections 338B, 338C, and 338E shall apply 
to the program established in subsection (a) to the same extent and in 
the same manner as such provisions apply to the National Health Service 
Corps Loan Repayment Program established in subpart III of part D of 
title III.
    ``(c) Amounts appropriated for carrying out this section shall 
remain available until the expiration of the second fiscal year 
beginning after the fiscal year for which the amounts were 
appropriated.''.

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