[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 96 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 96

    To provide for the conduct of basic research on certain matters 
                      relating to ovarian cancer.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

  Mrs. Mink introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide for the conduct of basic research on certain matters 
                      relating to ovarian cancer.

    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 ``Ovarian Cancer Research Act of 
1993''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT REGARDING CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF BASIC RESEARCH ON 
              OVARIAN CANCER.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting 
through the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the 
Director of the National Cancer Institute, shall conduct or support 
basic research--
            (1) to develop a test capable of detecting ovarian cancer 
        in the earlier stages of the cancer; and
            (2) to determine whether there is a genetic basis to such 
        cancer.
    (b) Limitation.--In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary may 
not conduct or support clinical research regarding the matters 
described in paragraph (1) or (2) of such subsection.

SEC. 3. FUNDING.

    (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--For the purpose of carrying 
out section 2(a), there is authorized to be appropriated $50,000,000 
for fiscal year 1994, $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1995, $70,000,000 for 
fiscal year 1996, $80,000,000 for fiscal year 1997, and $90,000,000 for 
fiscal year 1998.
    (b) Rule of Construction Regarding Other Authorizations.--
Subsection (a) may not be construed to affect the authority to make, 
under any authorization of appropriations established in any other 
provision of law, appropriations for the purposes described in section 
2(a).

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