113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2019 

AN ACT 

To eliminate taxpayer financing of political party conventions 

and reprogram savings to provide for a 10-year pediatric 

research initiative through the Common Fund administered by the National Institutes of Health, and for other 

purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Gabriella Miller Kids 

3 First Research Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF TAXPAYER FINANCING OF POLIT5 ICAL PARTY CONVENTIONS; USE OF FUNDS 

6 FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE. 

7 (a) TERMINATION OF PAYMENTS FOR CONVENTIONS; 

8 USE OF FUNDS FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH.—Section 

9 9008 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended 

10 by adding at the end the following new subsection: 

11 ‘‘(i) TERMINATION OF PAYMENTS FOR CONVEN12 TIONS; USE OF AMOUNTS FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH INI13 TIATIVE.—Effective on the date of the enactment of the 

14 Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act— 

15 ‘‘(1) the entitlement of any major party or 

16 minor party to a payment under this section shall 

17 terminate; and 

18 ‘‘(2) all amounts in each account maintained 

19 for the national committee of a major party or 

20 minor party under this section shall be transferred 

21 to a fund in the Treasury to be known as the ‘10- 

22 Year Pediatric Research Initiative Fund’, which 

23 shall be available only for the purpose provided in 

24 section 402A(a)(2) of the Public Health Service Act, 

25 and only to the extent and in such amounts as are 

26 provided in advance in appropriation Acts.’’. 
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1 (b) CONTINUATION OF PRIORITY OF PAYMENTS

2 FROM ACCOUNTS OVER PAYMENTS TO CANDIDATES.— 

3 (1) AVAILABILITY OF PAYMENTS TO CAN4 DIDATES.—The third sentence of section 9006(c) of 

5 such Code is amended by striking ‘‘section 

6 9008(b)(3),’’ and inserting ‘‘section 9008(i)(2),’’. 

7 (2) AVAILABILITY OF PAYMENTS FROM PRESI8 DENTIAL PRIMARY MATCHING PAYMENT ACCOUNT.— 

9 The second sentence of section 9037(a) of such Code 

10 is amended by striking ‘‘section 9008(b)(3)’’ and in11 serting ‘‘section 9008(i)(2)’’. 

12 (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 

13 (1) ELIMINATION OF REPORTS BY FEDERAL

14 ELECTION COMMISSION.—Section 9009(a) of such 

15 Code is amended— 

16 (A) by adding ‘‘and’’ at the end of para17 graph (2); 

18 (B) by striking the semicolon at the end of 

19 paragraph (3) and inserting a period; and 

20 (C) by striking paragraphs (4), (5), and 

21 (6). 

22 (2) ELIMINATION OF PENALTIES.—Section 

23 9012 of such Code is amended— 

24 (A) in subsection (a)(1), by striking the 

25 second sentence; 
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1 (B) in subsection (c), by striking para2 graph (2) and redesignating paragraph (3) as 

3 paragraph (2); 

4 (C) in subsection (e)(1), by striking the 

5 second sentence; and 

6 (D) in subsection (e)(3), by striking ‘‘, or 

7 in connection with any expense incurred by the 

8 national committee of a major party or minor 

9 party with respect to a presidential nominating 

10 convention’’. 

11 SEC. 3. 10–YEAR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE. 

12 (a) ALLOCATION OF NIH FUNDS IN COMMON FUND

13 FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH.—Paragraph (7) of section 

14 402(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 

15 282(b)) is amended to read as follows: 

16 ‘‘(7)(A) shall, through the Division of Program 

17 Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives— 

18 ‘‘(i) identify research that represents im19 portant areas of emerging scientific opportuni20 ties, rising public health challenges, or knowl21 edge gaps that deserve special emphasis and 

22 would benefit from conducting or supporting 

23 additional research that involves collaboration 

24 between 2 or more national research institutes 
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1 or national centers, or would otherwise benefit 

2 from strategic coordination and planning; 

3 ‘‘(ii) include information on such research 

4 in reports under section 403; and 

5 ‘‘(iii) in the case of such research sup6 ported with funds referred to in subparagraph 

7 (B)— 

8 ‘‘(I) require as appropriate that pro9 posals include milestones and goals for the 

10 research; 

11 ‘‘(II) require that the proposals in12 clude timeframes for funding of the re13 search; and 

14 ‘‘(III) ensure appropriate consider15 ation of proposals for which the principal 

16 investigator is an individual who has not 

17 previously served as the principal investi18 gator of research conducted or supported 

19 by the National Institutes of Health; 

20 ‘‘(B)(i) may, with respect to funds reserved 

21 under section 402A(c)(1) for the Common Fund, al22 locate such funds to the national research institutes 

23 and national centers for conducting and supporting 

24 research that is identified under subparagraph (A); 

25 and 
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1 ‘‘(ii) shall, with respect to funds appropriated 

2 to the Common Fund pursuant to section 

3 402A(a)(2), allocate such funds to the national re4 search institutes and national centers for making 

5 grants for pediatric research that is identified under 

6 subparagraph (A); and 

7 ‘‘(C) may assign additional functions to the Di8 vision in support of responsibilities identified in sub9 paragraph (A), as determined appropriate by the Di10 rector;’’. 

11 (b) FUNDING FOR 10-YEAR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH

12 INITIATIVE.—Section 402A of the Public Health Service 

13 Act (42 U.S.C. 282a) is amended— 

14 (1) in subsection (a)— 

15 (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) 

16 through (3) as subparagraphs (A) through (C), 

17 respectively, and moving the indentation of each 

18 such subparagraph 2 ems to the right; 

19 (B) by striking ‘‘For purposes of carrying 

20 out this title’’ and inserting the following: 

21 ‘‘(1) THIS TITLE.—For purposes of carrying 

22 out this title’’; and 

23 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

24 ‘‘(2) FUNDING FOR 10-YEAR PEDIATRIC RE25 SEARCH INITIATIVE THROUGH COMMON FUND.—For 
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1 the purpose of carrying out section 402(b)(7)(B)(ii), 

2 there is authorized to be appropriated to the Com3 mon Fund, out of the 10-Year Pediatric Research 

4 Initiative Fund described in section 9008 of the In5 ternal Revenue Code of 1986, and in addition to 

6 amounts otherwise made available under paragraph 

7 (1) of this subsection and reserved under subsection 

8 (c)(1)(B)(i) of this section, $12,600,000 for each of 

9 fiscal years 2014 through 2023.’’; and 

10 (2) in subsections (c)(1)(B), (c)(1)(D), and (d), 

11 by striking ‘‘subsection (a)’’ each place it appears 

12 and inserting ‘‘subsection (a)(1)’’. 

13 (c) SUPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT; PROHIBITION

14 AGAINST TRANSFER.—Funds appropriated pursuant to 

15 section 402A(a)(2) of the Public Health Service Act, as 

16 added by subsection (b)— 

17 (1) shall be used to supplement, not supplant, 

18 the funds otherwise allocated by the National Insti19 tutes of Health for pediatric research; and 

20 (2) notwithstanding any transfer authority in 

21 any appropriation Act, shall not be used for any 

22 purpose other than allocating funds for making 

23 grants as described in section 402(b)(7)(B)(ii) of the 
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1 Public Health Service Act, as added by subsection 

2 (a). 

Passed the House of Representatives December 11, 

2013. 

Attest: 

Clerk. 

113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2019 

AN ACT 

To eliminate taxpayer financing of political party 

Institutes of Health, and for other purposes. the Common Fund administered by the National a 10-year pediatric research initiative through conventions and reprogram savings to provide for