[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2527 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2527

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for research on the 
   disease known as lymphangioleiomyomatosis (commonly known as LAM).


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 15, 1999

Mr. Chabot (for himself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Boehner, Mrs. Mink of Hawaii, 
   Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Maloney of Connecticut, Mr. 
  Rahall, Mr. Ackerman, and Ms. Jackson-Lee 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 research on the 
   disease known as lymphangioleiomyomatosis (commonly known as LAM).

    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 ``LAM Disease Research Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. PROGRAM OF RESEARCH ON LAM DISEASE.

    Section 421 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285b-3) is 
amended by adding at the end the following subsection:
    ``(c)(1) The Program shall provide for the conduct or support of 
research on the disease lymphangioleiomyomatosis (referred to in this 
subsection as `LAM'). The Program may provide for the conduct or 
support of training, health information dissemination, and other 
programs with respect to LAM. Activities under this paragraph may 
include the establishment and operation of a registry with respect to 
the disease.
    ``(2) For the purpose of carrying out paragraph (1), there is 
authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2000.''.
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