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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 568
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the development
and operation of centers to conduct research with respect to contraception
and centers to conduct research with respect to infertility, and for other
purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 25, 1993
Mrs. SCHROEDER (for herself and Ms. SNOWE) 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
the development and operation of centers to conduct
research with respect to contraception and centers to
conduct research with respect to infertility, 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 ‘‘Contraception and
Infertility Research Centers Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. GRANTS AND CONTRACTS FOR RESEARCH CENTERS
WITH RESPECT TO CONTRACEPTION AND RE-
SEARCH CENTERS WITH RESPECT TO INFER-
TILITY.
Subpart 7 of part C of title IV of the Public Health
Service Act, as amended by section 3 of Public Law 101–
613, is amended by adding at the end the following new
section:
‘‘RESEARCH CENTERS WITH RESPECT TO
CONTRACEPTION AND INFERTILITY
‘‘SEC. 452A. (a) The Director of the Institute, after
consultation with the advisory council for the Institute,
shall make grants to, or enter into contracts with, public
or nonprofit private entities for the development and oper-
ation of centers to conduct activities for the purpose of
improving methods of contraception and centers to con-
duct activities for the purpose of improving methods of
diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
‘‘(b) In carrying out subsection (a), the Director of
the Institute shall, subject to the extent of amounts made
available in appropriations Acts, provide for the establish-
ment of three centers with respect to contraception and
for two centers with respect to infertility.
‘‘(c)(1) Each center assisted under this section shall,
in carrying out the purpose of the center involved—
‘‘(A) conduct clinical and other applied re-
search, including—
‘‘(i) for centers with respect to contracep-
tion, clinical trials of new or improved drugs
and devices for use by males and females (in-
cluding barrier methods); and
‘‘(ii) for centers with respect to infertility,
clinical trials of new or improved drugs and de-
vices for the diagnosis and treatment of infertil-
ity in males and females;
‘‘(B) develop protocols for training physicians,
scientists, nurses, and other health and allied health
professionals;
‘‘(C) conduct training programs for such indi-
viduals;
‘‘(D) develop model continuing education pro-
grams for such professionals; and
‘‘(E) disseminate information to such profes-
sionals and the public.
‘‘(2) A center may use funds provided under sub-
section (a) to provide stipends for health and allied health
professionals enrolled in programs described in subpara-
graph (C) of paragraph (1), and to provide fees to individ-
uals serving as subjects in clinical trials conducted under
such paragraph.
‘‘(d) The Director of the Institute shall, as appro-
priate, provide for the coordination of information among
the centers assisted under this section.
‘‘(e) Each center assisted under subsection (a) shall
use the facilities of a single institution, or be formed from
a consortium of cooperating institutions, meeting such re-
quirements as may be prescribed by the Director of the
Institute.
‘‘(f) Support of a center under subsection (a) may
be for a period not exceeding 5 years. Such period may
be extended for one or more additional periods not exceed-
ing 5 years if the operations of such center have been re-
viewed by an appropriate technical and scientific peer re-
view group established by the Director and if such group
has recommended to the Director that such period should
be extended.
‘‘(g) For the purpose of carrying out this section,
there are authorized to be appropriated $30,000,000 for
fiscal year 1994, and such sums as may be necessary for
each of the fiscal years 1995 and 1996.’’.
SEC. 3. LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH WITH
RESPECT TO CONTRACEPTION AND INFER-
TILITY.
Part F of title IV of the Public Health Service Act
(42 U.S.C. 288 et seq.) is amended by inserting after sec-
tion 487A the following section:
‘‘LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH WITH
RESPECT TO CONTRACEPTION AND INFERTILITY
‘‘SEC. 487B. (a) The Secretary, in consultation with
the Director of the National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development, shall establish a program of enter-
ing into agreements with qualified health professionals (in-
cluding graduate students) under which such health pro-
fessionals agree to conduct research with respect to con-
traception, or with respect to infertility, in consideration
of the Federal Government agreeing to repay, for each
year of such service, not more than $20,000 of the prin-
cipal and interest of the educational loans of such health
professionals.
‘‘(b) The provisions of sections 338B, 338C, and
338E shall apply to the program established in subsection
(a) to the same extent and in the same manner as such
provisions apply to the National Health Service Corps
Loan Repayment Program established in subpart III of
part D of title III.
‘‘(c) Amounts appropriated for carrying out this sec-
tion shall remain available until the expiration of the sec-
ond fiscal year beginning after the fiscal year for which
the amounts were appropriated.’’.
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