[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2439 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2439

 To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the Silvio O. 
               Conte Senior Biomedical Research Service.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 19, 2015

   Mr. Collins of New York introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the Silvio O. 
               Conte Senior Biomedical Research Service.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SILVIO O. CONTE SENIOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH SERVICE.

    (a) Hiring and Retention Authority.--Section 228 of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 237) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by inserting ``and biomedical 
        product assessment'' after ``research'';
            (2) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``Silvio O. Conte 
        Senior Biomedical Research Service, not to exceed 500 members'' 
        and inserting ``Silvio O. Conte Senior Biomedical Research and 
        Biomedical Product Assessment Service (in this section referred 
        to as the `Service'), the purpose of which is to recruit and 
        retain competitive and qualified scientific and technical 
        experts outstanding in the field of biomedical research, 
        clinical research evaluation, and biomedical product 
        assessment'';
            (3) by amending subsection (a)(2) to read as follows:
    ``(2) The authority established in paragraph (1) may not be 
construed to require the Secretary to reduce the number of employees 
serving under any other employment system in order to offset the number 
of members serving in the Service.'';
            (4) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 
                striking ``or clinical research evaluation'' and 
                inserting ``, clinical research evaluation or 
                biomedical product assessment'' after ``evaluation''; 
                and
                    (B) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``or a master's 
                level degree in engineering, bioinformatics, or a 
                related or emerging field,'' after the comma;
            (5) in subsection (d), by striking ``and shall not exceed 
        the rate payable for level I of the Executive Schedule unless 
        approved by the President under section 5377(d)(2) of title 5, 
        United States Code'' and inserting ``and shall not exceed the 
        rate payable for the President'';
            (6) by striking subsection (e); and
            (7) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as subsections 
        (e) and (f), respectively.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 3 years after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit, 
and publish on the website of the Department of Health and Human 
Services a report on the implementation of the amendments made by 
subsection (a), including whether the amendments have improved the 
ability of the Food and Drug Administration to hire and retain 
qualified experts to fulfill obligations specified under user fee 
agreements.
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