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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2439 

To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the Silvio O. Conte 

Senior Biomedical Research Service. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 19, 2015 

Mr. COLLINS of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred 

to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to 

the Silvio O. Conte Senior Biomedical Research Service. 

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

3 SECTION 1. SILVIO O. CONTE SENIOR BIOMEDICAL RE4 SEARCH SERVICE. 

5 (a) HIRING AND RETENTION AUTHORITY.—Section 

6 228 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 237) is 

7 amended— 

8 (1) in the section heading, by inserting ‘‘AND

9 BIOMEDICAL PRODUCT ASSESSMENT’’ after ‘‘RE10 SEARCH’’; 


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1 (2) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘Silvio O. 

2 Conte Senior Biomedical Research Service, not to 

3 exceed 500 members’’ and inserting ‘‘Silvio O. Conte 

4 Senior Biomedical Research and Biomedical Product 

5 Assessment Service (in this section referred to as the 

6 ‘Service’), the purpose of which is to recruit and re7 tain competitive and qualified scientific and tech8 nical experts outstanding in the field of biomedical 

9 research, clinical research evaluation, and biomedical 

10 product assessment’’; 

11 (3) by amending subsection (a)(2) to read as 

12 follows: 

13 ‘‘(2) The authority established in paragraph (1) may 

14 not be construed to require the Secretary to reduce the 

15 number of employees serving under any other employment 

16 system in order to offset the number of members serving 

17 in the Service.’’; 

18 (4) in subsection (b)— 

19 (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 

20 by striking ‘‘or clinical research evaluation’’ and 

21 inserting ‘‘, clinical research evaluation or bio22 medical product assessment’’ after ‘‘evalua23 tion’’; and 

24 (B) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘or a 

25 master’s level degree in engineering, 


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1 bioinformatics, or a related or emerging field,’’ 

2 after the comma; 

3 (5) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘and shall not 

4 exceed the rate payable for level I of the Executive 

5 Schedule unless approved by the President under 

6 section 5377(d)(2) of title 5, United States Code’’ 

7 and inserting ‘‘and shall not exceed the rate payable 

8 for the President’’; 

9 (6) by striking subsection (e); and 

10 (7) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as 

11 subsections (e) and (f), respectively. 

12 (b) REPORT.—Not later than 3 years after the date 

13 of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and 

14 Human Services shall submit, and publish on the website 

15 of the Department of Health and Human Services a report 

16 on the implementation of the amendments made by sub17 section (a), including whether the amendments have im18 proved the ability of the Food and Drug Administration 

19 to hire and retain qualified experts to fulfill obligations 

20 specified under user fee agreements. 

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