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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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SILVIO O. CONTE SENIOR BIOMEDICAL RE-
SEARCH SERVICE. 
(a) HIRING AND RETENTION AUTHORITY.—Section 
228 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 237) is 
amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by inserting ‘‘AND 
BIOMEDICAL
PRODUCT
ASSESSMENT’’ after ‘‘RE-
SEARCH’’; 
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(2) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘Silvio O. 
Conte Senior Biomedical Research Service, not to 
exceed 500 members’’ and inserting ‘‘Silvio O. Conte 
Senior Biomedical Research and Biomedical Product 
Assessment Service (in this section referred to as the 
‘Service’), the purpose of which is to recruit and re-
tain competitive and qualified scientific and tech-
nical experts outstanding in the field of biomedical 
research, clinical research evaluation, and biomedical 
product assessment’’; 
(3) by amending subsection (a)(2) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(2) The authority established in paragraph (1) may 
not be construed to require the Secretary to reduce the 
number of employees serving under any other employment 
system in order to offset the number of members serving 
in the Service.’’; 
(4) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by striking ‘‘or clinical research evaluation’’ and 
inserting ‘‘, clinical research evaluation or bio-
medical product assessment’’ after ‘‘evalua-
tion’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘or a 
master’s 
level 
degree 
in 
engineering, 
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bioinformatics, or a related or emerging field,’’ 
after the comma; 
(5) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘and shall not 
exceed the rate payable for level I of the Executive 
Schedule unless approved by the President under 
section 5377(d)(2) of title 5, United States Code’’ 
and inserting ‘‘and shall not exceed the rate payable 
for the President’’; 
(6) by striking subsection (e); and 
(7) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as 
subsections (e) and (f), respectively. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 3 years after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall submit, and publish on the website 
of the Department of Health and Human Services a report 
on the implementation of the amendments made by sub-
section (a), including whether the amendments have im-
proved the ability of the Food and Drug Administration 
to hire and retain qualified experts to fulfill obligations 
specified under user fee agreements. 
Æ 
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