[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1946 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1946

  To amend the Public Health Service Act to require reporting by the 
  National Institutes of Health on requests for funding research that 
 were not granted and had the greatest potential for improving public 
                    health, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 5, 2017

Mr. Lewis of Georgia 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 to require reporting by the 
  National Institutes of Health on requests for funding research that 
 were not granted and had the greatest potential for improving public 
                    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 ``Missed Opportunities Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORTING BY NIH ON MISSED OPPORTUNITIES.

    The Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 201 et seq.) is amended by 
inserting after section 403D of such Act (42 U.S.C. 283a-3) the 
following:

``SEC. 403E. ANNUAL REPORTING ON MISSED OPPORTUNITIES.

    ``(a) In General.--Not later than the last day of the first fiscal 
quarter following the end of each fiscal year, the Director of NIH 
shall submit a report to Congress--
            ``(1) identifying--
                    ``(A) the total number of requests that were under 
                review during such fiscal year by any office, agency, 
                institute, or center of the National Institutes of 
                Health for funding, in whole or in part, research; and
                    ``(B) of such total number--
                            ``(i) the number of such requests that were 
                        granted;
                            ``(ii) the number of such requests that 
                        were denied; and
                            ``(iii) the number of such requests that 
                        remained pending at the end of the fiscal year; 
                        and
            ``(2) of the requests that were denied or remained pending, 
        as described in clauses (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (1)(B), 
        identifying the requests with the greatest potential for 
        improving public health.
    ``(b) Trade Secrets and Confidential Information.--This section 
does not authorize the Secretary to disclose any information that is a 
trade secret or confidential information subject to section 552(b)(4) 
of title 5, United States Code, or section 1905 of title 18, United 
States Code.''.
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