[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1027 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1027

  To improve, coordinate, and enhance rehabilitation research at the 
                     National Institutes of Health.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 22, 2013

 Mr. Kirk (for himself and Mr. Johnson of South Dakota) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To improve, coordinate, and enhance rehabilitation research at 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. IMPROVING REHABILITATION RESEARCH AT NIH.

    Section 452 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285g-4) is 
amended--
            (1) in the section heading by striking ``medical'';
            (2) in subsection (a), by striking ``Medical'';
            (3) in subsection (c)(1)(C), by striking ``of the 
        National'' and inserting ``within the National'';
            (4) in subsection (d)(4), by inserting ``, or at least 
        every 5 years,'' after ``periodically,''; and
            (5) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) The Secretary may establish a working group made up of 
representatives from various Institutes and Centers, as appropriate, 
within the National Institutes of Health to update and streamline 
rehabilitation research priorities at the National Institutes of 
Health.
    ``(h) The Secretary may enter into inter-agency agreements relating 
to the coordination of rehabilitation research conducted by agencies 
outside of the Department of Health and Human Services.
    ``(i) For purposes of this section, the term `rehabilitation' means 
the science of mechanisms and interventions that prevent, improve, 
restore or replace lost, underdeveloped, or deteriorating function 
(defined at the level of impairment, activity, and participation 
according to the WHO-ICF Model).''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF REHABILITATION RESEARCH 
              RECOMMENDATIONS.

    Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit to the appropriate 
committees of Congress a report concerning the feasibility of 
implementing the changes proposed in the Blue Ribbon Panel 
Recommendations on Rehabilitation Research.
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