[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 281 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 281

  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

                            February 8, 2021

 Mr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Carper, Mr. 
Coons, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Casey, Mr. Brown, Ms. Warren, Mr. Blumenthal, 
  Mr. Murphy, Mr. Durbin, Mrs. Shaheen, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. King, Ms. 
Rosen, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Reed, Mr. Booker, Mr. Menendez, 
   Ms. Baldwin, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Cortez Masto, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. 
Sanders, Ms. Smith, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Warner, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Kaine, Mr. 
 Leahy, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Wyden, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Heinrich, 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 
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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