H. R. 2019 

One Hundred Thirteenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE SECOND SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and fourteen 

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. 

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 ‘‘Gabriella Miller Kids First 

Research Act’’. 

SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF TAXPAYER FINANCING OF POLITICAL PARTY 

CONVENTIONS; USE OF FUNDS FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH 

INITIATIVE. 

(a) TERMINATION OF PAYMENTS FOR CONVENTIONS; USE OF

FUNDS FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH.—Section 9008 of the Internal 

Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following 

new subsection: 

‘‘(i) TERMINATION OF PAYMENTS FOR CONVENTIONS; USE OF

AMOUNTS FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE.—Effective on the 

date of the enactment of the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research 

Act— 

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

to a payment under this section shall terminate; and 

‘‘(2) all amounts in each account maintained for the 

national committee of a major party or minor party under 

this section shall be transferred to a fund in the Treasury 

to be known as the ‘10-Year Pediatric Research Initiative Fund’, 

which shall be available only for the purpose provided in section 

402A(a)(2) of the Public Health Service Act, and only to the 

extent and in such amounts as are provided in advance in 

appropriation Acts.’’. 

(b) CONTINUATION OF PRIORITY OF PAYMENTS FROM ACCOUNTS

OVER PAYMENTS TO CANDIDATES.— (1) AVAILABILITY OF PAYMENTS TO CANDIDATES.—The third 

sentence of section 9006(c) of such Code is amended by striking 

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

(2) AVAILABILITY OF PAYMENTS FROM PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY

MATCHING PAYMENT ACCOUNT.—The second sentence of section 

9037(a) of such Code is amended by striking ‘‘section 9008(b)(3)’’ 

and inserting ‘‘section 9008(i)(2)’’. 

(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— (1) ELIMINATION OF REPORTS BY FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION.—Section 9009(a) of such Code is amended— 

(A) by adding ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph (2); 
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(B) by striking the semicolon at the end of paragraph 

(3) and inserting a period; and 

(C) by striking paragraphs (4), (5), and (6). 

(2) ELIMINATION OF PENALTIES.—Section 9012 of such Code 

is amended— 

(A) in subsection (a)(1), by striking the second sentence; 

(B) in subsection (c), by striking paragraph (2) and 

redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2); 

(C) in subsection (e)(1), by striking the second sentence; 

and 

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

with any expense incurred by the national committee of 

a major party or minor party with respect to a presidential 

nominating convention’’. 

SEC. 3. 10–YEAR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE. 

(a) ALLOCATION OF NIH FUNDS IN COMMON FUND FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH.—Paragraph (7) of section 402(b) of the Public 

Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 282(b)) is amended to read as follows: 

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

Planning, and Strategic Initiatives— 

‘‘(i) identify research that represents important areas 

of emerging scientific opportunities, rising public health 

challenges, or knowledge gaps that deserve special 

emphasis and would benefit from conducting or supporting 

additional research that involves collaboration between 2 

or more national research institutes or national centers, 

or would otherwise benefit from strategic coordination and 

planning; 

‘‘(ii) include information on such research in reports 

under section 403; and 

‘‘(iii) in the case of such research supported with funds 

referred to in subparagraph (B)— 

‘‘(I) require as appropriate that proposals include 

milestones and goals for the research; 

‘‘(II) require that the proposals include timeframes 

for funding of the research; and 

‘‘(III) ensure appropriate consideration of proposals 

for which the principal investigator is an individual 

who has not previously served as the principal investigator of research conducted or supported by the 

National Institutes of Health; 

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

402A(c)(1) for the Common Fund, allocate such funds to the 

national research institutes and national centers for conducting 

and supporting research that is identified under subparagraph 

(A); and 

‘‘(ii) shall, with respect to funds appropriated to the 

Common Fund pursuant to section 402A(a)(2), allocate such 

funds to the national research institutes and national centers 

for making grants for pediatric research that is identified under 

subparagraph (A); and 

‘‘(C) may assign additional functions to the Division in 

support of responsibilities identified in subparagraph (A), as 

determined appropriate by the Director;’’. 
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(b) FUNDING FOR 10-YEAR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE.— 

Section 402A of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 282a) 

is amended— 

(1) in subsection (a)— 

(A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (3) as 

subparagraphs (A) through (C), respectively, and moving 

the indentation of each such subparagraph 2 ems to the 

right; 

(B) by striking ‘‘For purposes of carrying out this title’’ 

and inserting the following: 

‘‘(1) THIS TITLE.—For purposes of carrying out this title’’; 

and 

(C) by adding at the end the following: 

‘‘(2) FUNDING FOR 10-YEAR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE

THROUGH COMMON FUND.—For the purpose of carrying out section 402(b)(7)(B)(ii), there is authorized to be appropriated to 

the Common Fund, out of the 10-Year Pediatric Research Initiative Fund described in section 9008 of the Internal Revenue 

Code of 1986, and in addition to amounts otherwise made 

available under paragraph (1) of this subsection and reserved 

under subsection (c)(1)(B)(i) of this section, $12,600,000 for 

each of fiscal years 2014 through 2023.’’; and 

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

‘‘subsection (a)’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘subsection 

(a)(1)’’. 

(c) SUPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT; PROHIBITION AGAINST

TRANSFER.—Funds appropriated pursuant to section 402A(a)(2) of 

the Public Health Service Act, as added by subsection (b)— 

(1) shall be used to supplement, not supplant, the funds 

otherwise allocated by the National Institutes of Health for 

pediatric research; and 

(2) notwithstanding any transfer authority in any appropriation Act, shall not be used for any purpose other than 

allocating funds for making grants as described in section 

402(b)(7)(B)(ii) of the Public Health Service Act, as added by 

subsection (a). 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.