[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5078-S5079]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2862. Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina (for himself and Mr. Booker) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 
4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year

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2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1095. SICKLE CELL DISEASE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT.

       (a) In General.--Section 1106(b) of the Public Health 
     Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300b-5(b)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)(A)(iii), by striking ``prevention and 
     treatment of sickle cell disease'' and inserting ``treatment 
     of sickle cell disease and the prevention and treatment of 
     complications of sickle cell disease'';
       (2) in paragraph (2)(D), by striking ``prevention and 
     treatment of sickle cell disease'' and inserting ``treatment 
     of sickle cell disease and the prevention and treatment of 
     complications of sickle cell disease'';
       (3) in paragraph (3)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``enter into a 
     contract with'' and inserting ``make a grant to, or enter 
     into a contract or cooperative agreement with,''; and
       (B) in subparagraph (B), in each of clauses (ii) and (iii), 
     by striking ``prevention and treatment of sickle cell 
     disease'' and inserting ``treatment of sickle cell disease 
     and the prevention and treatment of complications of sickle 
     cell disease''; and
       (4) in paragraph (6), by striking ``$4,455,000 for each of 
     fiscal years 2019 through 2023'' and inserting ``$8,205,000 
     for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028''.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     further research should be undertaken to expand the 
     understanding of the causes of, and to find cures for, 
     heritable blood disorders, including sickle cell disease.
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