[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
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[H.R. 2019 Engrossed in House (EH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2019

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT


 
  To eliminate taxpayer financing of political party conventions and 
     reprogram savings to provide for a 10-year pediatric research 
    initiative through the Common Fund administered by the National 
             Institutes of Health, 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 ``Gabriella Miller Kids First Research 
Act''.

SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF TAXPAYER FINANCING OF POLITICAL PARTY 
              CONVENTIONS; USE OF FUNDS FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH 
              INITIATIVE.

    (a) Termination of Payments for Conventions; Use of Funds for 
Pediatric Research.--Section 9008 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(i) Termination of Payments for Conventions; Use of Amounts for 
Pediatric Research Initiative.--Effective on the date of the enactment 
of the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act--
            ``(1) the entitlement of any major party or minor party to 
        a payment under this section shall terminate; and
            ``(2) all amounts in each account maintained for the 
        national committee of a major party or minor party under this 
        section shall be transferred to a fund in the Treasury to be 
        known as the `10-Year Pediatric Research Initiative Fund', 
        which shall be available only for the purpose provided in 
        section 402A(a)(2) of the Public Health Service Act, and only 
        to the extent and in such amounts as are provided in advance in 
        appropriation Acts.''.
    (b) Continuation of Priority of Payments From Accounts Over 
Payments to Candidates.--
            (1) Availability of payments to candidates.--The third 
        sentence of section 9006(c) of such Code is amended by striking 
        ``section 9008(b)(3),'' and inserting ``section 9008(i)(2),''.
            (2) Availability of payments from presidential primary 
        matching payment account.--The second sentence of section 
        9037(a) of such Code is amended by striking ``section 
        9008(b)(3)'' and inserting ``section 9008(i)(2)''.
    (c) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Elimination of reports by federal election 
        commission.--Section 9009(a) of such Code is amended--
                    (A) by adding ``and'' at the end of paragraph (2);
                    (B) by striking the semicolon at the end of 
                paragraph (3) and inserting a period; and
                    (C) by striking paragraphs (4), (5), and (6).
            (2) Elimination of penalties.--Section 9012 of such Code is 
        amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a)(1), by striking the second 
                sentence;
                    (B) in subsection (c), by striking paragraph (2) 
                and redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2);
                    (C) in subsection (e)(1), by striking the second 
                sentence; and
                    (D) in subsection (e)(3), by striking ``, or in 
                connection with any expense incurred by the national 
                committee of a major party or minor party with respect 
                to a presidential nominating convention''.

SEC. 3. 10-YEAR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE.

    (a) Allocation of NIH Funds in Common Fund for Pediatric 
Research.--Paragraph (7) of section 402(b) of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C. 282(b)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(7)(A) shall, through the Division of Program 
        Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives--
                    ``(i) identify research that represents important 
                areas of emerging scientific opportunities, rising 
                public health challenges, or knowledge gaps that 
                deserve special emphasis and would benefit from 
                conducting or supporting additional research that 
                involves collaboration between 2 or more national 
                research institutes or national centers, or would 
                otherwise benefit from strategic coordination and 
                planning;
                    ``(ii) include information on such research in 
                reports under section 403; and
                    ``(iii) in the case of such research supported with 
                funds referred to in subparagraph (B)--
                            ``(I) require as appropriate that proposals 
                        include milestones and goals for the research;
                            ``(II) require that the proposals include 
                        timeframes for funding of the research; and
                            ``(III) ensure appropriate consideration of 
                        proposals for which the principal investigator 
                        is an individual who has not previously served 
                        as the principal investigator of research 
                        conducted or supported by the National 
                        Institutes of Health;
            ``(B)(i) may, with respect to funds reserved under section 
        402A(c)(1) for the Common Fund, allocate such funds to the 
        national research institutes and national centers for 
        conducting and supporting research that is identified under 
        subparagraph (A); and
            ``(ii) shall, with respect to funds appropriated to the 
        Common Fund pursuant to section 402A(a)(2), allocate such funds 
        to the national research institutes and national centers for 
        making grants for pediatric research that is identified under 
        subparagraph (A); and
            ``(C) may assign additional functions to the Division in 
        support of responsibilities identified in subparagraph (A), as 
        determined appropriate by the Director;''.
    (b) Funding for 10-Year Pediatric Research Initiative.--Section 
402A of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 282a) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (3) as 
                subparagraphs (A) through (C), respectively, and moving 
                the indentation of each such subparagraph 2 ems to the 
                right;
                    (B) by striking ``For purposes of carrying out this 
                title'' and inserting the following:
            ``(1) This title.--For purposes of carrying out this 
        title''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Funding for 10-year pediatric research initiative 
        through common fund.--For the purpose of carrying out section 
        402(b)(7)(B)(ii), there is authorized to be appropriated to the 
        Common Fund, out of the 10-Year Pediatric Research Initiative 
        Fund described in section 9008 of the Internal Revenue Code of 
        1986, and in addition to amounts otherwise made available under 
        paragraph (1) of this subsection and reserved under subsection 
        (c)(1)(B)(i) of this section, $12,600,000 for each of fiscal 
        years 2014 through 2023.''; and
            (2) in subsections (c)(1)(B), (c)(1)(D), and (d), by 
        striking ``subsection (a)'' each place it appears and inserting 
        ``subsection (a)(1)''.
    (c) Supplement, Not Supplant; Prohibition Against Transfer.--Funds 
appropriated pursuant to section 402A(a)(2) of the Public Health 
Service Act, as added by subsection (b)--
            (1) shall be used to supplement, not supplant, the funds 
        otherwise allocated by the National Institutes of Health for 
        pediatric research; and
            (2) notwithstanding any transfer authority in any 
        appropriation Act, shall not be used for any purpose other than 
        allocating funds for making grants as described in section 
        402(b)(7)(B)(ii) of the Public Health Service Act, as added by 
        subsection (a).

            Passed the House of Representatives December 11, 2013.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.
113th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 2019

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

  To eliminate taxpayer financing of political party conventions and 
     reprogram savings to provide for a 10-year pediatric research 
    initiative through the Common Fund administered by the National 
             Institutes of Health, and for other purposes.