Permanent Investment in Health Research Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-777
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-FL-14]
Introduced: 2015-02-05
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations

Budget deficits and national debt

Budget process

Economic performance and conditions

Executive agency funding and structure

Health programs administration and funding

Medical research

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Research administration and funding
Latest action: action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-02-05
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Permanent Investment in Health Research Act of 2015 </b></p> <p>This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to make appropriations to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for FY2016-FY2025:</p> <ul> <li>for FY2016, $32 billion; and</li> <li>for each fiscal year from FY2017-FY2025, the amount appropriated for the preceding fiscal year, adjusted by any percentage increase in nominal gross domestic product during the preceding calendar year. </li> </ul> <p>The bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to add NIH to the list of programs and activities exempt from sequestration. Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 777 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 5, 2015 Ms. Castor of Florida (for herself, Mr. Butterfield , Mr. Loebsack , Mr. Tonko , Mr. Yarmuth , and Mr. Ruiz ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce , and in addition to the Committees on the Budget and Appropriations , 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 A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide funding for the National Institutes of Health.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Permanent Investment in Health Research Act of 2015 . 2. Funding for National Institutes of Health (a) Funding Paragraph (1) of section 402A(a) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 282a(a) ) is amended to read as follows: (1) In general Out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying out this title, there are hereby appropriated to the National Institutes of Health, to remain available until expended, the following amounts: (A) For fiscal year 2016, $32,000,000,000. (B) For each of fiscal years 2017 through 2025, the amount appropriated under this subsection for the preceding fiscal year, adjusted by any percentage increase in nominal gross domestic product during the preceding calendar year. . (b) Conforming changes Section 402A of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 282a ) is amended— (1) in the section heading, by striking Authorization of appropriations and inserting Funding ; and (2) in subsection (b), by striking Of the amount authorized to be appropriated under subsection (a) and inserting Of the amount made available under subsection (a) . (c) Exemption from sequestration orders Subparagraph (A) of section 255(g)(1) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 905(g)(1) ) is amended by inserting before the item relating to Office of Thrift Supervision the following new item: National Institutes of Health (75–9915–0–1–552). .