[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2246 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2246

 To authorize the appropriation of funds to the National Institutes of 
     Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 
conducting or supporting research on barriers to gender-affirming care.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 11, 2023

   Mr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Welch, Ms. Warren, Mr. 
Merkley, Ms. Hirono, Mrs. Feinstein, and Mr. Blumenthal) 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 National Institutes of 
     Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 
conducting or supporting research on barriers to gender-affirming care.

    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 ``Gender-Affirming Care Access 
Research for Equity Act'' or the ``Gender-Affirming CARE Act''.

SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR RESEARCH BY NIH AND CDC ON BARRIERS TO GENDER-
              AFFIRMING CARE.

    There is authorized to be appropriated to each of the National 
Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
$25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2029 for the purpose 
of conducting or supporting research on barriers to gender-affirming 
care, and the impact of those barriers on health outcomes, under the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 201 et seq.). The amounts 
authorized to be appropriated by the preceding sentence are in addition 
to any other amounts authorized to be appropriated for such purpose.
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