Title: Kids First Research Act 2.0
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
Kids First Research Act 2.0
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate: (1) the taxpayer election to designate $3 of income tax liability for financing of presidential election campaigns for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2016, (2) the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, and (3) the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account.
The Department of the Treasury must transfer amounts in the fund as of the date of the enactment of this bill to the 10-Year Pediatric Research Initiative Fund.
The bill expresses the sense of Congress that the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) should oversee and coordinate research that is conducted or supported by the NIH for research on pediatric cancer and other pediatric diseases and conditions, including through the 10-Year Pediatric Research Initiative Fund.
The bill also amends the Public Health Service Act to require the NIH to prioritize pediatric research that does not replicate existing NIH research activities.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2008 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2008

To increase funding for the 10-Year Pediatric Research Initiative Fund 
 by eliminating taxpayer financing of presidential election campaigns.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 6, 2017

    Mrs. Comstock (for herself, Mr. Harper, and Mr. Rodney Davis of 
  Illinois) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on 
   Energy and Commerce, and House Administration, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To increase funding for the 10-Year Pediatric Research Initiative Fund 
 by eliminating taxpayer financing of presidential election campaigns.

    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 ``Kids First Research Act 2.0''.

SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF TAXPAYER FINANCING OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 
              CAMPAIGNS.

    (a) Termination of Designation of Income Tax Payments.--Section 
6096 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the 
end the following new subsection:
    ``(d) Termination.--This section shall not apply to taxable years 
beginning after December 31, 2016.''.
    (b) Termination of Fund and Account.--
            (1) Termination of presidential election campaign fund.--
                    (A) In general.--Chapter 95 of subtitle H of such 
                Code is amended by adding at the end the following new 
                section:

``SEC. 9014. TERMINATION.

    ``The provisions of this chapter shall not apply with respect to 
any presidential election (or any presidential nominating convention) 
after the date of the enactment of this section, or to any candidate in 
such an election.''.
                    (B) Transfer of remaining funds.--Section 9006 of 
                such Code is amended by adding at the end the following 
                new subsection:
    ``(d) Transfer of Funds Remaining After Termination.--The Secretary 
shall transfer the amounts in the fund as of the date of the enactment 
of this subsection to the 10-Year Pediatric Research Initiative Fund 
described in section 9008(i)(2), to be available as described in such 
section and to remain so available until expended.''.
            (2) Termination of account.--Chapter 96 of subtitle H of 
        such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new 
        section:

``SEC. 9043. TERMINATION.

    ``The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any candidate 
with respect to any presidential election after the date of the 
enactment of this section.''.
    (c) Clerical Amendments.--
            (1) The table of sections for chapter 95 of subtitle H of 
        such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new 
        item:

``Sec. 9014. Termination.''.
            (2) The table of sections for chapter 96 of subtitle H of 
        such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new 
        item:

``Sec. 9043. Termination.''.

SEC. 3. COORDINATION OF NIH FUNDING FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH.

    (a) Sense of Congress.--The Congress encourages the Director of the 
National Institutes of Health to oversee and coordinate research that 
is conducted or supported by the National Institutes of Health for 
research on pediatric cancer and other pediatric diseases and 
conditions, including through the 10-Year Pediatric Research Initiative 
Fund.
    (b) Avoiding Replicate.--Clause (ii) of section 407(b)(7)(B) of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 282(b)(7)(B)) is amended by 
inserting ``and shall prioritize such pediatric research that does not 
replicate existing research activities of the National Institutes of 
Health'' before ``; and''.
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