[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2019 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]
H.R.2019
One Hundred Thirteenth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
the third day of January, two thousand and fourteen
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).
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.