[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 95 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 95

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 21, (legislative day, January 5), 1993

  Mr. Harkin (for himself, Mr. Packwood, Hatfield, and Mr. Lieberman) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                 Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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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 ``Contraceptive and Infertility 
Research Centers Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. CONTRACEPTIVE AND INFERTILITY RESEARCH CENTERS.

    (a) Research Centers.--Subpart 7 of part C of title IV of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285g et seq.) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new section:

``SEC. 452A. RESEARCH CENTERS WITH RESPECT TO CONTRACEPTION AND 
              INFERTILITY.

    ``(a) In General.--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 diagnosing and 
treating infertility.
    ``(b) Number of Centers.--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) Duties.--
            ``(1) In general.--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 
                        by 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 both 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.
            ``(2) Stipends and fees.--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) Coordination of Information.--The Director of the Institute 
shall, as appropriate, provide for the coordination of information 
among the centers assisted under this section.
    ``(e) Consortium.--Each center assisted under this section 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 Secretary, after consultation with the 
Director of the Institute.
    ``(f) Term of Support and Peer Review.--Support of a center under 
subsection (a) may be for a period of not to exceed 5 years. Such 
period may be extended for one or more additional periods of not to 
exceed 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) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this section, 
there are authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for fiscal year 
1994, and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1995 through 
1998.''.
    (b) Loan Repayment Program for Research with Respect to 
Contraception and Infertility.--Part F of title IV of such Act (42 
U.S.C. 288 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 487A the 
following new section:

``SEC. 487B. LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH WITH RESPECT TO 
              CONTRACEPTION AND INFERTILITY.

    ``(a) Establishment.--The Secretary, after consultation with the 
Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human 
Development, shall establish a program to enter into agreements with 
appropriately qualified health professionals (including graduate 
students) under which such health professionals shall agree to conduct 
research with respect to contraception, or with respect to infertility, 
in consideration of the Secretary agreeing to repay, for each year of 
such service, not to exceed $20,000 of the principal and interest of 
the educational loans incurred by such health professionals.
    ``(b) Administrative Provisions.--With respect to the National 
Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program established in subpart III 
of part D of title III, the provisions of such subpart shall, except as 
inconsistent with subsection (a), apply to the program established in 
such subsection to the same extent and in the same manner as such 
provisions apply to the National Health Service Loan Repayment Program.
    ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            ``(1) In general.--To carry out this section, there are 
        authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for 
        each of the fiscal years 1994 through 1996.
            ``(2) Availability of funds.--Amounts appropriated under 
        paragraph (1) for a fiscal year shall remain available until 
        the expiration of the second fiscal year beginning after the 
        fiscal year for which the amounts were appropriated.''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
become effective on the date of the enactment of this Act.

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