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Calendar No. 289 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2019 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
DECEMBER 12 (legislative day, DECEMBER 11), 2013 
Received 
DECEMBER 20, 2013 
Read the first time 
JANUARY 6, 2014 
Read the second time and placed on the calendar 
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 adminis-
tered by the National Institutes of Health, 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 ‘‘Gabriella Miller Kids 
First Research Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF TAXPAYER FINANCING OF POLIT-
ICAL 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 CONVEN-
TIONS; USE OF AMOUNTS FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH INI-
TIATIVE.—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.— 
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(1) AVAILABILITY
OF
PAYMENTS
TO
CAN-
DIDATES.—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 PRESI-
DENTIAL PRIMARY MATCHING PAYMENT ACCOUNT.— 
The second sentence of section 9037(a) of such Code 
is amended by striking ‘‘section 9008(b)(3)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘section 9008(i)(2)’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) ELIMINATION
OF
REPORTS
BY
FEDERAL 
ELECTION
COMMISSION.—Section 9009(a) of such 
Code is amended— 
(A) by adding ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (2); 
(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; 
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(B) in subsection (c), by striking para-
graph (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 PEDIATRIC 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 im-
portant areas of emerging scientific opportuni-
ties, rising public health challenges, or knowl-
edge gaps that deserve special emphasis and 
would benefit from conducting or supporting 
additional research that involves collaboration 
between 2 or more national research institutes 
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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 sup-
ported with funds referred to in subparagraph 
(B)— 
‘‘(I) require as appropriate that pro-
posals include milestones and goals for the 
research; 
‘‘(II) require that the proposals in-
clude timeframes for funding of the re-
search; and 
‘‘(III) ensure appropriate consider-
ation 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, al-
locate such funds to the national research institutes 
and national centers for conducting and supporting 
research that is identified under subparagraph (A); 
and 
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‘‘(ii) shall, with respect to funds appropriated 
to 
the 
Common 
Fund 
pursuant 
to 
section 
402A(a)(2), allocate such funds to the national re-
search institutes and national centers for making 
grants for pediatric research that is identified under 
subparagraph (A); and 
‘‘(C) may assign additional functions to the Di-
vision in support of responsibilities identified in sub-
paragraph (A), as determined appropriate by the Di-
rector;’’. 
(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
RE-
SEARCH INITIATIVE THROUGH COMMON FUND.—For 
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the purpose of carrying out section 402(b)(7)(B)(ii), 
there is authorized to be appropriated to the Com-
mon Fund, out of the 10-Year Pediatric Research 
Initiative Fund described in section 9008 of the In-
ternal 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 Insti-
tutes of Health for pediatric research; and 
(2) notwithstanding any transfer authority in 
any appropriation 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 
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Public Health Service Act, as added by subsection 
(a). 
Passed the House of Representatives December 11, 
2013. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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Calendar No. 289 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2019 
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. 
JANUARY 6, 2014 
Read the second time and placed on the calendar 
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