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107TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 183

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for awards by the

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to develop and

operate multidisciplinary research centers regarding the impact of environmental factors on women’s health and disease prevention.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JANUARY 3, 2001

Ms. SLAUGHTER (for herself, Mrs. KELLY, and Mr. PRICE of North Carolina)

introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for

awards by the National Institute of Environmental

Health Sciences to develop and operate multidisciplinary

research centers regarding the impact of environmental

factors on women’s health and disease prevention.

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

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Women’s Health Envi5 ronmental Research Centers Act of 2000’’.
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1 SEC. 2. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL

2 HEALTH SCIENCES; AWARDS FOR DEVELOP3 MENT AND OPERATION OF MULTIDISCI4 PLINARY RESEARCH CENTERS REGARDING

5 WOMEN’S HEALTH AND DISEASE PREVEN6 TION.

7 Subpart 12 of part C of title IV of the Public Health

8 Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285L et seq.) is amended by adding

9 at the end the following section:

10 ‘‘MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH CENTERS REGARDING

11 WOMEN’S HEALTH AND DISEASE PREVENTION

12 ‘‘SEC. 463B. (a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the

13 Institute shall make grants to public or nonprofit private

14 entities for the development and operation of not more

15 than six centers whose purpose is conducting multidisci16 plinary research on environmental factors that may be re17 lated to the development of women’s health conditions (as

18 defined in section 486). The Director of the Institute shall

19 carry out this section in consultation with the Director of

20 the Office of Research on Women’s Health and with the

21 advisory council for the Institute.

22 ‘‘(b) RESEARCH, TRAINING, AND INFORMATION AND

23 EDUCATION.—

24 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each center under sub25 section (a) shall, with respect to the purpose de26 scribed in such subsection—
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1 ‘‘(A) conduct basic and clinical research;

2 ‘‘(B) develop protocols for training physi3 cians, scientists, nurses, and other health and

4 allied health professionals;

5 ‘‘(C) conduct training programs for such

6 individuals;

7 ‘‘(D) develop model continuing education

8 programs for such professionals; and

9 ‘‘(E) disseminate information to such pro10 fessionals and the public.

11 ‘‘(2) PRIORITY FOR PREVENTION ACTIVITIES.—

12 In carrying out the activities described in paragraph

13 (1), each center under subsection (a) shall give pri14 ority to activities that are directed toward pre15 venting the development in women of the diseases

16 and conditions involved.

17 ‘‘(3) STIPENDS FOR TRAINING OF HEALTH PRO18 FESSIONALS.—A center under subsection (a) may

19 use funds under such subsection to provide stipends

20 for health and allied health professionals enrolled in

21 programs described in paragraph (1)(C).

22 ‘‘(c) COLLABORATION WITH COMMUNITY.—Each

23 center under subsection (a) shall establish and maintain

24 ongoing collaborations with community organizations in

25 the geographic area served by the center, including those
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1 that represent women with disorders that appear to stem

2 from environmental factors.

3 ‘‘(d) COORDINATION OF CENTERS; REPORTS.—The

4 Director of the Institute shall, as appropriate, provide for

5 the coordination of information among centers under sub6 section (a) and ensure regular communication between

7 such centers.

8 ‘‘(e) STRUCTURE OF CENTER.—Each center assisted

9 under subsection (a) shall use the facilities of a single in10 stitution, or be formed from a consortium of cooperating

11 institutions, meeting such requirements as may be pre12 scribed by the Director of the Institute.

13 ‘‘(f) DURATION OF SUPPORT.—Support of a center

14 under subsection (a) may be for a period not exceeding

15 5 years. Such period may be extended for one or more

16 additional periods not exceeding 5 years if the operations

17 of such center have been reviewed by an appropriate tech18 nical and scientific peer review group established by the

19 Director of the Institute and if such group has rec20 ommended to the Director that such period should be ex21 tended.

22 ‘‘(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For the

23 purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized

24 to be appropriated $4,000,000 for fiscal year 2001, and
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1 such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years

2 2002 through 2005.’’.

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