Title: Federal Labs Modernization Act of 2021
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Federal Labs Modernization Act of 2021
This bill requires the inclusion of certain information related to research infrastructure in specified reports to Congress.
The bill requires the Office of Science and Technology Policy to include in a report to Congress a description of the deficiencies in funding for research infrastructure in research facilities and major instrumentation located at federal laboratories and national user facilities at academic institutions that are widely accessible for use by researchers in the United States.
The General Accountability Office must submit a report to Congress on research infrastructure.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1653 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1653

To amend the America COMPETES Act to strengthen reporting requirements 
 relating to deficiencies in Federal research infrastructure, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 8, 2021

 Mr. Neguse (for himself and Mr. Perlmutter) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and 
                               Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the America COMPETES Act to strengthen reporting requirements 
 relating to deficiencies in Federal research infrastructure, and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 ``Federal Labs Modernization Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO FEDERAL RESEARCH 
              INFRASTRUCTURE.

    (a) In General.--Section 1007(c)(1) of the America COMPETES Act (42 
U.S.C. 6619(c)(1)) is amended by inserting ``and funding for research 
infrastructure'' after ``research infrastructure''.
    (b) GAO Report.--Not later than 180 days and every 2 years 
thereafter, the Comptroller General shall submit to Congress a report 
that includes--
            (1) an assessment of the current state of Federal science 
        facilities and related infrastructure, including with respect 
        to climate control systems, the functionality of equipment and 
        the usage of such equipment, the quality of buildings in which 
        such facilities are housed (including the resiliency of such 
        buildings to changes in climate, weather, and natural 
        surroundings), and the safety of the materials used in 
        construction of facilities;
            (2) an identification of the facilities in most critical 
        need of repair or renovation;
            (3) the estimated costs of completing such repairs or 
        renovations; and
            (4) an evaluation of whether facility occupancy is 
        sufficient to meet agency demands.
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