[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 189 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 189

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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 2021

   Ms. Barragan (for herself, Mr. Carter of Georgia, and Mr. Taylor) 
 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 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 ``John Lewis NIMHD Research Endowment 
Revitalization Act of 2021''.

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

    Paragraph (1) (beginning with ``(1) In general'') 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.''.
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