[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 825 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 825

  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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 4, 2021

Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York (for herself, Mr. Auchincloss, Mrs. 
Beatty, Mr. Beyer, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. 
Case, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Cooper, Ms. 
Dean, Mr. DeFazio, Mrs. Demings, Mr. Deutch, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Evans, 
 Mrs. Fletcher, Mr. Foster, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Himes, Mr. Horsford, Mr. 
 Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Jones, Mr. Kildee, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. 
   Lowenthal, Ms. Matsui, Mr. McNerney, Mr. Morelle, Mrs. Murphy of 
   Florida, Mr. Neguse, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Ross, Ms. Roybal-
     Allard, Mr. Sarbanes, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Sires, Mr. Smith of 
Washington, Ms. Speier, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Takano, Mr. Tonko, Mrs. Trahan, 
   Mr. Vargas, Mrs. Watson Coleman, and Mr. Yarmuth) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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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 
of 2021''.

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 2022 
through 2027 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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