[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3288 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 3288

  To direct that funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for 
  fiscal year 1996 for certain medical research relating to illnesses 
   suffered by veterans who served in the Persian Gulf War shall be 
  obligated in accordance with peer review procedures of the Food and 
                          Drug Administration.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 23, 1996

 Mr. Browder introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on National Security

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct that funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for 
  fiscal year 1996 for certain medical research relating to illnesses 
   suffered by veterans who served in the Persian Gulf War shall be 
  obligated in accordance with peer review procedures of the Food and 
                          Drug Administration.

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

SECTION 1. PEER REVIEW PROCEDURES TO BE USED FOR CERTAIN DEPARTMENT OF 
              DEFENSE MEDICAL RESEARCH.

    (a) Procedures To Be Used.--The Secretary of Defense, in 
determining the manner in which to obligate the funds referred to in 
subsection (b), shall direct that the peer review guidelines to be used 
for such purpose shall be those applicable to the Food and Drug 
Administration (under 21 CFR chapter 1, part 56), rather than the peer 
review procedures otherwise applicable to the Army.
    ((b) Covered Funds.--The funds to which subsection (a) applies are 
those funds specified for a treatment protocol and related studies for 
Desert Storm-syndrome affected veterans in the third proviso under the 
heading ``Defense Health Program'' in title VII of the Department of 
Defense Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public Law 104-61; 109 Stat. 649).
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