[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1026 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1026

  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

                             March 29, 2023

 Mr. Markey (for himself, Ms. Duckworth, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Kaine, 
 Ms. Smith, Mr. Casey, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Booker, Mr. Welch, Mr. Carper, 
 Mr. Merkley, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Reed, Ms. Warren, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. 
  Whitehouse, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Menendez, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Hirono, Mr. 
  Durbin, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Heinrich, Mrs. 
Gillibrand, Ms. Baldwin, and Mr. Coons) 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 2023''.

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 2024 
through 2029 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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