[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
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[S. 314 Referred in House (RFH)]

  1st Session
                                 S. 314


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 18, 2003

            Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To make improvements in the Foundation for the National Institutes of 
                                Health.

    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 ``Foundation for the National 
Institutes of Health Improvement Act''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH ESTABLISHMENT AND DUTIES.

    Section 499 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290b) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by amending subparagraph (D)(ii) to 
                        read as follows:
                    ``(ii) Upon the appointment of the appointed 
                members of the Board under clause (i)(II), the terms of 
                service as members of the Board of the ex officio 
                members of the Board described in clauses (i) and (ii) 
                of subparagraph (B) shall terminate. The ex officio 
                members of the Board described in clauses (iii) and 
                (iv) of subparagraph (B) shall continue to serve as ex 
                officio members of the Board.''; and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (G), by inserting 
                        ``appointed'' after ``that the number of'';
                    (B) by amending paragraph (3)(B) to read as 
                follows:
                    ``(B) Any vacancy in the membership of the 
                appointed members of the Board shall be filled in 
                accordance with the bylaws of the Foundation 
                established in accordance with paragraph (6), and shall 
                not affect the power of the remaining appointed members 
                to execute the duties of the Board.''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (5), by inserting ``appointed'' 
                after ``majority of the'';
            (2) in subsection (j)--
                    (A) in paragraph (2), by striking 
                ``(d)(2)(B)(i)(II)'' and inserting ``(d)(6)''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (10), by striking ``of Health.'' 
                and inserting ``of Health and the National Institutes 
                of Health may accept transfers of funds from the 
                Foundation.''; and
            (3) by striking subsection (l) and inserting the following:
    ``(l) Funding.--From amounts appropriated to the National 
Institutes of Health, for each fiscal year, the Director of NIH shall 
transfer $500,000 to the Foundation.''.

            Passed the Senate July 17, 2003.

            Attest:

                                             EMILY J. REYNOLDS,

                                                             Secretary.