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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4968 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4968

To improve the Institutional Development Award program of the National 
                         Institutes of Health.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 1, 2024

Mrs. Hyde-Smith 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 improve the Institutional Development Award program of the National 
                         Institutes of Health.

    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 ``IDeA Reauthorization Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARD PROGRAM.

    Section 461(b)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
285k(b)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by adding at the end the 
        following: ``Such program shall be called the `Institutional 
        Development Award program' or the `IDeA program'.'';
            (2) by amending subparagraph (B) to read as follows:
            ``(B) The entities referred to in subparagraph (A) are 
        entities that conduct biomedical or behavioral research and are 
        located in a State that is at or below the median of all States 
        in aggregate grant funding from the National Institutes of 
        Health, excluding funding under this subsection, received by 
        entities in the State, calculated on a rolling multi-year 
        average, as determined by the Director of NIH (referred to in 
        this paragraph as an `IDeA State').''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(D) The NIH shall submit to Congress, as part of its 
        Federal budget submission, or make available through an 
        annually updated, publicly accessible data source--
                    ``(i) a description of the strategy and objectives 
                of the IDeA program;
                    ``(ii) a description of the awards made under such 
                program in the previous fiscal year, including--
                            ``(I) the efforts and accomplishments to 
                        more fully integrate the IDeA States in major 
                        activities and initiatives of the National 
                        Institutes of Health;
                            ``(II) the percentage of IDeA program 
                        reviewers who are from IDeA States; and
                            ``(III) updates on programs or large 
                        collaborator awards involving a partnership of 
                        organizations and institutions from IDeA States 
                        and non-IDeA States; and
                    ``(iii) a description of gains in academic research 
                quality and in biomedical science human resource 
                development achieved through the IDeA program over the 
                last 5 fiscal years.''.
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