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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5609 
To direct the National Institutes of Health to reinstate funding to recipients 
of grants or other awards, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 
Ms. STEVENS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To direct the National Institutes of Health to reinstate fund-
ing to recipients of grants or other awards, 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 ‘‘Stop RFK’s Bad 
Science Act’’ or the ‘‘Stop RFK’s BS Act’’. 
SEC. 2. REINSTATEMENT OF FUNDING FOR NATIONAL IN-
STITUTES OF HEALTH GRANTS AND OTHER 
AWARDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Effective beginning on the date 
of the enactment of this Act, any covered grants or awards 
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terminated or suspended during the period beginning on 
January 20, 2025, and ending on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, shall be, unless the Director makes a 
finding of financial mismanagement, research fraud, or 
malfeasance with respect to such grants or awards— 
(1) reinstated; and 
(2) considered obligated. 
(b) APPROVED
REQUESTS.—A payment request 
made by the recipient of a covered grant or award to an 
National Institutes of Health official with respect to such 
covered grant or award shall be disbursed as soon as pos-
sible, and in no case later than 30 calendar days after 
the date on which such a payment request is submitted 
to the National Institutes of Health official. 
(c) 1-YEAR EXTENSION OF TERM.—In the case of 
a covered grant or award that is reinstated or disbursed 
under subsection (a) or (b) (as the case may be), the budg-
et period of such grant or award shall be extended for 
a 1-year period beginning on the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) BUDGET PERIOD.—The term ‘‘budget pe-
riod’’ has the meaning given such term in section 
1.2 of the document entitled ‘‘NIH Grants Policy 
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Statement’’, published in April 2024 by the National 
Institutes of Health. 
(2) COVERED
GRANT
OR
AWARD.—The term 
‘‘covered grant or award’’ means a grant or other 
award made by a National Institutes of Health offi-
cial under a provision of law administered by such 
an official. 
(3) DIRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means 
the Director of the National Institutes of Health. 
(4) NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH OFFI-
CIAL.—The term ‘‘National Institutes of Health offi-
cial’’ means— 
(A) the Director; and 
(B) any other official within the National 
Institutes of Health with responsibility for mak-
ing a grant or award of Federal funds under a 
provision of law administered by the Director or 
such other official. 
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