[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2927 Reported in Senate (RS)]

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                                                       Calendar No. 371
116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2927

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide that the authority of 
 the Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health 
Disparities to make certain research endowments applies with respect to 
 both current and former centers of excellence, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 21, 2019

Mr. Jones (for himself and Mr. Cassidy) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

                           December 17, 2019

              Reported by Mr. Alexander, without amendment

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide that the authority of 
 the Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health 
Disparities to make certain research endowments applies with respect to 
 both current and former centers of excellence, 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 ``NIMHD Research Endowment 
Revitalization Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. RESEARCH ENDOWMENTS AT BOTH CURRENT AND FORMER CENTERS OF 
              EXCELLENCE.

    Paragraph (1) of section 464z-3(h) of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 285t(h)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) In general.--The Director of the Institute may carry 
        out a program to facilitate minority health disparities 
        research and other health disparities research by providing for 
        research endowments--
                    ``(A) at current or former centers of excellence 
                under section 736; and
                    ``(B) at current or former centers of excellence 
                under section 464z-4.''.
                                                       Calendar No. 371

116th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                S. 2927

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                                 A BILL

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide that the authority of 
 the Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health 
Disparities to make certain research endowments applies with respect to 
 both current and former centers of excellence, and for other purposes.

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                           December 17, 2019

                       Reported without amendment