I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1970 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to create a National Childhood 
Brain Tumor Prevention Network to provide grants and coordinate re-
search with respect to the causes of and risk factors associated with 
childhood brain tumors, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 24, 2011 
Ms. LEE of California (for herself and Mr. BISHOP of Utah) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to create a National 
Childhood Brain Tumor Prevention Network to provide 
grants and coordinate research with respect to the causes 
of and risk factors associated with childhood brain tu-
mors, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Childhood 
Brain Tumor Prevention Network Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(9) No single institution has a sufficient num-
ber of patients to independently conduct research 
that will adequately address the causes of childhood 
brain tumors. 
(10) There has been no comprehensive study 
analyzing all relevant clinical, biological, and epide-
miological aspects of childhood brain tumors to iden-
tify potential risk factors and determine the cause of 
such tumors. 
(11) Existing national cooperative clinical on-
cology groups primarily investigate treatment op-
tions and prognosis and do not typically examine the 
origins of childhood brain tumors or the risk factors 
associated with such tumors. A significant majority 
of children with brain tumors are first treated by 
neurosurgeons and not by oncologists typically in-
volved in such groups. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) there is a need to establish and coordinate 
a multi-center research effort based on collaboration 
between regional consortia and governmental and 
nongovernmental entities in order to comprehen-
sively study the causes of childhood brain tumors 
and identify potential risk factors; and 
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(2) there is a need to encourage a collaborative 
effort among surgical and medical centers with epi-
demiological study groups to gather comprehensive 
and detailed information for each child enrolled in 
those groups, in order to investigate environmental, 
nutritional, genetic, and developmental factors with 
respect to, and the pathological and epidemiological 
characteristics of, childhood brain tumors. 
SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL CHILDHOOD 
BRAIN TUMOR PREVENTION NETWORK. 
Title III of the Public Health Service Act is amended 
by inserting after section 317T of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
247b–22) the following: 
‘‘SEC. 317U. NATIONAL CHILDHOOD BRAIN TUMOR PREVEN-
TION NETWORK. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL CHILD-
HOOD BRAIN TUMOR PREVENTION NETWORK.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year 
after the date of the enactment of this section, the 
Secretary, acting through the Director of the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Prevention, shall estab-
lish, administer, and coordinate within the National 
Center for Environmental Health a National Child-
hood Brain Tumor Prevention Network (hereinafter 
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referred to in this section as the ‘Network’) for the 
purposes described in paragraph (2). 
‘‘(2) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the Network 
shall be the following: 
‘‘(A) Providing grants of not fewer than 
five years duration to eligible consortia for the 
purpose of conducting research with respect to 
the causes of and risk factors associated with 
childhood brain tumors. 
‘‘(B) Assembling a panel of experts, in-
cluding members of the Brain Tumor Epidemi-
ology Consortium and survivors of brain tu-
mors, to provide ongoing guidance and rec-
ommendations for, with respect to research 
funded by the Network, the development of the 
following: 
‘‘(i) A common study design. 
‘‘(ii) Standard protocols, methods, 
procedures, and assays for collecting from 
individuals enrolled as study participants, 
and the parents of such individuals, a min-
imum data set that includes the following: 
‘‘(I) 
Environmental 
exposure 
data. 
‘‘(II) Nutritional data. 
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‘‘(III) Biospecimens, including 
genomic data. 
‘‘(IV) Histopathological and mo-
lecular pathological data and speci-
mens. 
‘‘(V) Clinical and radiological 
data. 
‘‘(iii) Specific analytical methods for 
examining data. 
‘‘(iv) Provisions for consensus review 
of enrolled cases. 
‘‘(v) An integrated data collection net-
work. 
‘‘(C) Designating a central laboratory to 
collect, analyze, and aggregate data with re-
spect to research funded by the Network and to 
make such data and analysis available to re-
searchers. 
‘‘(3) ELIGIBLE CONSORTIA.—To be eligible for 
a grant under this section, a consortium shall dem-
onstrate the following: 
‘‘(A) The capability to annually enroll as 
research participants a minimum of 100 indi-
viduals with a newly diagnosed childhood brain 
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tumor from the designated catchment area of 
such consortium. 
‘‘(B) The capability to form a control 
group by enrolling as research participants, for 
each enrolled individual with a childhood brain 
tumor, at least two individuals without a child-
hood brain tumor, who are matched demo-
graphically to such enrolled individual with a 
childhood brain tumor. 
‘‘(C) That the designated catchment area 
of such consortium does not overlap with the 
designated catchment area of a consortium al-
ready receiving a grant under this section. 
‘‘(4) REPORT.—Not later than one year after 
the date of the enactment of this section and annu-
ally thereafter, the Secretary, acting through the Di-
rector of the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
vention, shall submit to Congress a report with re-
spect to the Network, to be made publicly available, 
including a summary of research funded by the Net-
work and a list of consortia receiving grants under 
the Network. At the discretion of the Secretary, 
such report may be combined with other similar or 
existing reports. 
‘‘(5) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
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