Pediatric Research Improvement Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2548
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2015-05-21
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health

Health information and medical records

Medical research

Research administration and funding
Latest action: action_date: 2015-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-05-21
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Pediatric Research Improvement Act of 2015</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to revise the Pediatric Research Initiative to require collaboration with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and require establishment of a National Pediatric Research Network comprised of pediatric research consortia.</p> The National Institutes of Health must award funding to entities supporting pediatric research consortia. Supported consortia must, upon request, provide assistance to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for patient registries and other surveillance systems.

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2548 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 21, 2015 Mrs. McMorris Rodgers introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to a national pediatric research network.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Pediatric Research Improvement Act of 2015 . 2. National Pediatric Research Network Section 409D(d) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 284h(d) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1)— (A) by striking in consultation with the Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and in collaboration with other appropriate national research institutes and national centers that carry out activities involving pediatric research and inserting in collaboration with the national research institutes and national centers that carry out activities involving pediatric research ; (B) by striking subparagraph (B); (C) by striking may be comprised of, as appropriate and all that follows through the pediatric research consortia and inserting may be comprised of, as appropriate, the pediatric research consortia ; and (D) by striking ; or at the end and inserting a period; and (2) in paragraph (1), paragraph (2)(A), the first sentence of paragraph (2)(E), and paragraph (4), by striking may each place it appears and inserting shall .