Fighting Cancer in Children Act

Bill: 117-hr-8768
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Norman, Ralph [R-SC-5]
Introduced: 2022-09-02
Policy area: Health
Latest action: action_date: 2022-09-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-09-02
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Fighting Cancer in Children Act</strong></p> <p>This bill makes funding available for research and related activities concerning pediatric cancer that are conducted or supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from funds previously made available to the NIH Office of the Director.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill transfers unobligated funding from the NIH Office of the Director and merges it with other NIH funding for biorepositories of pediatric cancer specimens and research on pediatric cancer survivorship. The bill also rescinds additional funding that was provided to the NIH Office of the Director.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8768 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 2, 2022 Mr. Norman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations A BILL To rescind and transfer funds available for the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health to accounts for pediatric cancer research, awareness, and survivorship, to reduce the deficit, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fighting Cancer in Children Act . 2. Transfer and rescission of amounts available for Office of the Director of NIH Of the unobligated amounts available for National Institutes of Health—Office of the Director in Public Law 117–103 — (1) $30,000,000 is transferred to, and merged with, amounts available to carry out section 417E of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 285a–11 ; relating to pediatric cancer research, awareness, and survivorship); and (2) $30,000,000 is hereby rescinded.