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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2019 

To eliminate taxpayer financing of presidential campaigns and 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. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 16, 2013 

Mr. HARPER (for himself, Mr. COLE, Mr. WELCH, Mr. BARLETTA, Mr. 

HULTGREN, Ms. JENKINS, Mr. MEEHAN, Mrs. WALORSKI, Mrs. MILLER

of Michigan, Mr. BACHUS, Mr. MESSER, Mrs. MCMORRIS RODGERS, Mr. 

COLLINS of New York, Mr. COFFMAN, Mr. WEBSTER of Florida, and Mr. 

KLINE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on 

House Administration and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 

provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To eliminate taxpayer financing of presidential campaigns 

and 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 ‘‘Kids First Research 

3 Act of 2013’’. 

4 SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF TAXPAYER FINANCING OF PRESI5 DENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS. 

6 (a) TERMINATION OF DESIGNATION OF INCOME TAX

7 PAYMENTS.—Section 6096 of the Internal Revenue Code 

8 of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following 

9 new subsection: 

10 ‘‘(d) TERMINATION.—This section shall not apply to 

11 taxable years ending on or after the date of the enactment 

12 of this subsection.’’. 

13 (b) TERMINATION OF FUND AND ACCOUNT.— 

14 (1) TERMINATION OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

15 CAMPAIGN FUND.— 

16 (A) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 95 of such 

17 Code is amended by adding at the end the fol18 lowing new section: 

19 ‘‘SEC. 9014. TERMINATION. 

20 ‘‘The provisions of this chapter shall not apply with 

21 respect to any presidential election (or any presidential 

22 nominating convention) after the date of the enactment 

23 of this section, or to any candidate in such an election.’’. 

24 (B) CONVERSION OF FUND TO 10-YEAR PE25 DIATRIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE FUND.—Section 


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1 9006 of such Code is amended by adding at the 

2 end the following new subsection: 

3 ‘‘(d) CONVERSION TO 10-YEAR PEDIATRIC RE4 SEARCH INITIATIVE FUND.— 

5 ‘‘(1) CONVERSION.—Effective on the date of 

6 the enactment of the Kids First Research Act of 

7 2013— 

8 ‘‘(A) the special fund established under 

9 this section shall be known and designated as 

10 the ‘10-Year Pediatric Research Initiative 

11 Fund’; and 

12 ‘‘(B) all amounts in the fund as of such 

13 date shall be available only for the purpose pro14 vided in section 402A(a)(2) of the Public 

15 Health Service Act, and only to the extent and 

16 in such amounts as are provided in advance in 

17 appropriation Acts. 

18 ‘‘(2) TERMINATION.—Any amounts in the fund 

19 that remain unobligated on October 1, 2024, shall 

20 be deposited into the general fund of the Treasury.’’. 

21 (2) TERMINATION OF ACCOUNT.—Chapter 96 

22 of such Code is amended by adding at the end the 

23 following new section: 


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1 ‘‘SEC. 9043. TERMINATION. 

2 ‘‘The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any 

3 candidate with respect to any presidential election after 

4 the date of the enactment of this section.’’. 

5 (c) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.— 

6 (1) The table of sections for chapter 95 of such 

7 Code is amended by adding at the end the following 

8 new item: 

‘‘Sec. 9014. Termination.’’. 

9 (2) The table of sections for chapter 96 of such 

10 Code is amended by adding at the end the following 

11 new item: 

‘‘Sec. 9043. Termination.’’. 

12 SEC. 3. 10-YEAR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE. 

13 (a) ALLOCATION OF NIH FUNDS IN COMMON FUND

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

15 402(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 

16 282(b)) is amended to read as follows: 

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

18 Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives— 

19 ‘‘(i) identify research that represents im20 portant areas of emerging scientific opportuni21 ties, rising public health challenges, or knowl22 edge gaps that deserve special emphasis and 

23 would benefit from conducting or supporting 

24 additional research that involves collaboration 


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1 between 2 or more national research institutes 

2 or national centers, or would otherwise benefit 

3 from strategic coordination and planning; 

4 ‘‘(ii) include information on such research 

5 in reports under section 403; and 

6 ‘‘(iii) in the case of such research sup7 ported with funds referred to in subparagraph 

8 (B)— 

9 ‘‘(I) require as appropriate that pro10 posals include milestones and goals for the 

11 research; 

12 ‘‘(II) require that the proposals in13 clude timeframes for funding of the re14 search; and 

15 ‘‘(III) ensure appropriate consider16 ation of proposals for which the principal 

17 investigator is an individual who has not 

18 previously served as the principal investi19 gator of research conducted or supported 

20 by the National Institutes of Health; 

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

22 under section 402A(c)(1) for the Common Fund, al23 locate such funds to the national research institutes 

24 and national centers for conducting and supporting 


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1 research that is identified under subparagraph (A); 

2 and 

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

4 to the Common Fund under section 402A(a)(2), al5 locate such funds to the national research institutes 

6 and national centers for making grants for pediatric 

7 research that is identified under subparagraph (A); 

8 and 

9 ‘‘(C) may assign additional functions to the Di10 vision in support of responsibilities identified in sub11 paragraph (A), as determined appropriate by the Di12 rector;’’. 

13 (b) FUNDING FOR 10-YEAR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH

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

15 Act (42 U.S.C. 282a) is amended— 

16 (1) in subsection (a)— 

17 (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) 

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

19 respectively, and moving the indentation of each 

20 such subparagraph 2 ems to the right; 

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

22 out this title’’ and inserting the following: 

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

24 out this title’’; and 

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


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1 ‘‘(2) FUNDING FOR 10-YEAR PEDIATRIC RE2 SEARCH INITIATIVE THROUGH COMMON FUND.—For 

3 carrying out section 402(b)(7)(B)(ii), there is au4 thorized to be appropriated, out of funds in the 10- 

5 Year Pediatric Research Initiative Fund established 

6 by section 9006 of the Internal Revenue Code of 

7 1986, and in addition to amounts otherwise made 

8 available under paragraph (1) of this subsection and 

9 reserved under subsection (c)(1)(B)(i) of this sec10 tion, $13,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 

11 through 2023.’’; and 

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

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

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

15 (c) SUPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT; PROHIBITION

16 AGAINST TRANSFER.—Funds appropriated under section 

17 402A(a)(2) of the Public Health Service Act, as added by 

18 subsection (b)— 

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

20 the funds otherwise allocated by the National Insti21 tutes of Health for pediatric research; and 

22 (2) notwithstanding any transfer authority in 

23 any appropriation Act, shall not be used for any 

24 purpose other than making grants as described in 


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1 section 402(b)(7)(B)(ii) of the Public Health Service 

2 Act, as added by subsection (a). 

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