H. R. 2019 
One Hundred Thirteenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and fourteen 
An Act 
To eliminate taxpayer financing of political 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. 
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 ‘‘Gabriella Miller Kids First 
Research Act’’. 
SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF TAXPAYER FINANCING OF POLITICAL PARTY 
CONVENTIONS; USE OF FUNDS FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH 
INITIATIVE. 
(a) TERMINATION
OF PAYMENTS
FOR CONVENTIONS; USE
OF 
FUNDS FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH.—Section 9008 of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subsection: 
‘‘(i) TERMINATION
OF PAYMENTS
FOR CONVENTIONS; USE
OF 
AMOUNTS FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE.—Effective on the 
date of the enactment of the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research 
Act— 
‘‘(1) the entitlement of any major party or minor party 
to a payment under this section shall terminate; and 
‘‘(2) all amounts in each account maintained for the 
national committee of a major party or minor party under 
this section shall be transferred to a fund in the Treasury 
to be known as the ‘10-Year Pediatric Research Initiative Fund’, 
which shall be available only for the purpose provided in section 
402A(a)(2) of the Public Health Service Act, and only to the 
extent and in such amounts as are provided in advance in 
appropriation Acts.’’. 
(b) CONTINUATION OF PRIORITY OF PAYMENTS FROM ACCOUNTS 
OVER PAYMENTS TO CANDIDATES.— 
(1) AVAILABILITY OF PAYMENTS TO CANDIDATES.—The third 
sentence of section 9006(c) of such Code is amended by striking 
‘‘section 9008(b)(3),’’ and inserting ‘‘section 9008(i)(2),’’. 
(2) AVAILABILITY OF PAYMENTS FROM PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY 
MATCHING PAYMENT ACCOUNT.—The second sentence of section 
9037(a) of such Code is amended by striking ‘‘section 9008(b)(3)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘section 9008(i)(2)’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) ELIMINATION OF REPORTS BY FEDERAL ELECTION COMMIS-
SION.—Section 9009(a) of such Code is amended— 
(A) by adding ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph (2);
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(B) by striking the semicolon at the end of paragraph 
(3) and inserting a period; and 
(C) by striking paragraphs (4), (5), and (6). 
(2) ELIMINATION OF PENALTIES.—Section 9012 of such Code 
is amended— 
(A) in subsection (a)(1), by striking the second sentence; 
(B) in subsection (c), by striking paragraph (2) and 
redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2); 
(C) in subsection (e)(1), by striking the second sentence; 
and 
(D) in subsection (e)(3), by striking ‘‘, or in connection 
with any expense incurred by the national committee of 
a major party or minor party with respect to a presidential 
nominating convention’’. 
SEC. 3. 10–YEAR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE. 
(a) ALLOCATION OF NIH FUNDS IN COMMON FUND FOR PEDI-
ATRIC RESEARCH.—Paragraph (7) of section 402(b) of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 282(b)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(7)(A) shall, through the Division of Program Coordination, 
Planning, and Strategic Initiatives— 
‘‘(i) identify research that represents important areas 
of emerging scientific opportunities, rising public health 
challenges, or knowledge gaps that deserve special 
emphasis and would benefit from conducting or supporting 
additional research that involves collaboration between 2 
or more national research institutes or national centers, 
or would otherwise benefit from strategic coordination and 
planning; 
‘‘(ii) include information on such research in reports 
under section 403; and 
‘‘(iii) in the case of such research supported with funds 
referred to in subparagraph (B)— 
‘‘(I) require as appropriate that proposals include 
milestones and goals for the research; 
‘‘(II) require that the proposals include timeframes 
for funding of the research; and 
‘‘(III) ensure appropriate consideration of proposals 
for which the principal investigator is an individual 
who has not previously served as the principal investi-
gator of research conducted or supported by the 
National Institutes of Health; 
‘‘(B)(i) may, with respect to funds reserved under section 
402A(c)(1) for the Common Fund, allocate such funds to the 
national research institutes and national centers for conducting 
and supporting research that is identified under subparagraph 
(A); and 
‘‘(ii) shall, with respect to funds appropriated to the 
Common Fund pursuant to section 402A(a)(2), allocate such 
funds to the national research institutes and national centers 
for making grants for pediatric research that is identified under 
subparagraph (A); and 
‘‘(C) may assign additional functions to the Division in 
support of responsibilities identified in subparagraph (A), as 
determined appropriate by the Director;’’.
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(b) FUNDING FOR 10-YEAR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE.— 
Section 402A of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 282a) 
is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (3) as 
subparagraphs (A) through (C), respectively, and moving 
the indentation of each such subparagraph 2 ems to the 
right; 
(B) by striking ‘‘For purposes of carrying out this title’’ 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) THIS TITLE.—For purposes of carrying out this title’’; 
and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) FUNDING FOR 10-YEAR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE 
THROUGH COMMON FUND.—For the purpose of carrying out sec-
tion 402(b)(7)(B)(ii), there is authorized to be appropriated to 
the Common Fund, out of the 10-Year Pediatric Research Initia-
tive Fund described in section 9008 of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986, and in addition to amounts otherwise made 
available under paragraph (1) of this subsection and reserved 
under subsection (c)(1)(B)(i) of this section, $12,600,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2014 through 2023.’’; and 
(2) in subsections (c)(1)(B), (c)(1)(D), and (d), by striking 
‘‘subsection (a)’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘subsection 
(a)(1)’’. 
(c) 
SUPPLEMENT, 
NOT
SUPPLANT; 
PROHIBITION
AGAINST 
TRANSFER.—Funds appropriated pursuant to section 402A(a)(2) of 
the Public Health Service Act, as added by subsection (b)— 
(1) shall be used to supplement, not supplant, the funds 
otherwise allocated by the National Institutes of Health for 
pediatric research; and 
(2) notwithstanding any transfer authority in any appro-
priation Act, shall not be used for any purpose other than 
allocating funds for making grants as described in section 
402(b)(7)(B)(ii) of the Public Health Service Act, as added by 
subsection (a). 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.