[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3272 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3272

    To make emergency supplemental appropriations for the National 
Institutes of Health for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 16, 2008

Mr. Specter (for himself and Mr. Harkin) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
    To make emergency supplemental appropriations for the National 
Institutes of Health for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, 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 ``NIH Emergency Supplemental 
Appropriations Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS.

    That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2008, and for other purposes, namely:
            (1) For an additional amount for the ``Office of the 
        Director, National Institutes of Health'', $4,000,000,000 which 
        shall be transferred to the Institutes and Centers of the 
        National Institutes of Health to be used to support additional 
        scientific research.
            (2) For an additional amount for the National Cancer 
        Institute, $1,200,000,000 to be used to support additional 
        scientific research.

SEC. 3. GENERAL PROVISIONS.

    (a) Availability of Funds.--No part of the appropriation contained 
in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
fiscal year.
    (b) Emergency Designation.--Amounts in this Act are designated as 
emergency requirements pursuant to section 402 of H. Con. Res. 95 
(109th Congress), and pursuant to section 501 of H. Con. Res. 376 
(109th Congress) as made applicable to the House of Representatives by 
section 511(a)(4) of H. Res. 6 (110th Congress).
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