[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 184 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 184

  To authorize the appropriation of funds to the Centers for Disease 
    Control and Prevention for conducting or supporting research on 
              firearms safety or gun violence prevention.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 17, 2019

 Mr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Durbin, 
  Mr. Casey, Ms. Hassan, Ms. Warren, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Cardin, Mr. 
Udall, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Reed, Mr. Schumer, Ms. Stabenow, Ms. Duckworth, 
  Ms. Harris, Mr. Murphy, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Coons, Mr. Leahy, Ms. 
 Baldwin, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Kaine, Ms. Smith, 
Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Carper, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. 
   Booker, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Warner, Mr. 
    Menendez, Mr. Wyden, Ms. Rosen, and Mr. Peters) 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 authorize the appropriation of funds to the Centers for Disease 
    Control and Prevention for conducting or supporting research on 
              firearms safety or gun violence prevention.

    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 ``Gun Violence Prevention Research 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR RESEARCH BY CDC ON FIREARMS SAFETY OR GUN VIOLENCE 
              PREVENTION.

    There is authorized to be appropriated to the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 
through 2025 for the purpose of conducting or supporting research on 
firearms safety or gun violence prevention under the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 201 et seq.). The amount authorized to be 
appropriated by the preceding sentence is in addition to any other 
amounts authorized to be appropriated for such purpose.
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