[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2704 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2704

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for an increase in 
      the amount of funding for the information clearinghouse on 
       osteoporosis, Paget's disease, and related bone disorders.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 22, 1997

Ms. Woolsey (for herself, Mrs. Maloney of New York, Mr. Pascrell, Mrs. 
    Morella, and Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for an increase in 
      the amount of funding for the information clearinghouse on 
       osteoporosis, Paget's disease, and related bone disorders.

    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 ``Osteoporosis and Related Bone 
Disorders Resource Center Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE ON OSTEOPOROSIS, PAGET'S 
              DISEASE, AND RELATED BONE DISORDERS.

    Section 409A(d) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
284e(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following sentence: ``In 
addition to other authorizations of appropriations available for the 
purpose of the establishment and operation of the information 
clearinghouse under subsection (c), there are authorized to be 
appropriated for such purpose $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1999, and such 
sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2000 and 2001.''.
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