Allows funds to be used for: (1) stipends for training program enrollees; and (2) fees to clinical trial subjects.
Establishes a program of agreements with health professionals to conduct infertility prevention research in return for the Government repaying the professionals' educational loans.
[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2923 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
107th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 2923
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the development
and operation of centers to conduct research with respect to
infertility prevention, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 11, 2002
Mr. Torricelli introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
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A BILL
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the development
and operation of centers to conduct research with respect to
infertility prevention, 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 ``Infertility Research Centers Act of
2002''.
SEC. 2. GRANTS AND CONTRACTS FOR RESEARCH CENTERS WITH RESPECT TO
INFERTILITY PREVENTION.
Subpart 7 of part C of title IV of the Public Health Service Act
(42 U.S.C. 285g et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following
new section:
``SEC. 452H. RESEARCH CENTERS WITH RESPECT TO INFERTILITY PREVENTION.
``(a) In General.--The Director of the Institute, after
consultation with the advisory council for the Institute, shall make
grants to, or enter into contracts with, public or nonprofit private
entities for the development and operation of centers to conduct
activities for the purpose of improving methods of preventing
infertility.
``(b) Number of Centers.--In carrying out subsection (a), the
Director of the Institute shall, subject to the extent of amounts made
available in appropriations Acts, provide for the establishment of two
centers with respect to infertility prevention.
``(c) Use of Funds.--
``(1) In general.--Each center assisted under this section
shall, in carrying out the purpose of the center involved--
``(A) conduct clinical and other applied research,
including clinical trials of new or improved drugs and
devices for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility
in males and females;
``(B) develop protocols for training physicians,
scientists, nurses, and other health and allied health
professionals;
``(C) conduct training programs for such
individuals;
``(D) develop model continuing education programs
for such professionals; and
``(E) disseminate information to such professionals
and the public.
``(2) Stipends.--A center may use funds provided under
subsection (a) to provide stipends for health and allied health
professionals enrolled in programs described in subparagraph
(C) of paragraph (1), and to provide fees to individuals
serving as subjects in clinical trials conducted under such
paragraph.
``(d) Coordination.--The Director of the Institute shall, as
appropriate, provide for the coordination of information among the
centers assisted under this section.
``(e) Facilities.--Each center assisted under subsection (a) shall
use the facilities of a single institution, or be formed from a
consortium of cooperating institutions, meeting such requirements as
may be prescribed by the Director of the Institute.
``(f) Period of Support.--Support of a center under subsection (a)
may be for a period not exceeding 5 years. Such period may be extended
for one or more additional periods not exceeding 5 years if the
operations of such center have been reviewed by an appropriate
technical and scientific peer review group established by the Director
and if such group has recommended to the Director that such period
should be extended.
``(g) Authorization of Appropriations.--For the purpose of carrying
out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $30,000,000
for fiscal year 2003, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the
fiscal years 2004 and 2005.''.
SEC. 3. LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH WITH RESPECT TO INFERTILITY
PREVENTION.
Part F of title IV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 287d
et seq.) is amended--
(1) by redesignating the second section 487F (relating to
the pediatric research loan repayment program) as section 487G;
and
(2) by inserting after section 487G (as so redesignated)
the following section:
``SEC. 487H. LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH WITH RESPECT TO
INFERTILITY PREVENTION.
``(a) Establishment.--The Secretary, in consultation with the
Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development, shall establish a program of entering into agreements with
qualified health professionals (including graduate students) under
which such health professionals agree to conduct research with respect
to infertility prevention, in consideration of the Federal Government
agreeing to repay, for each year of such service, not more than $20,000
of the principal and interest of the educational loans of such health
professionals.
``(b) Application of Provisions.--The provisions of sections 338B,
338C, and 338E shall apply to the program established in subsection (a)
to the same extent and in the same manner as such provisions apply to
the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program established in
subpart III of part D of title III.
``(c) Funding.--Amounts appropriated for carrying out this section
shall remain available until the expiration of the second fiscal year
beginning after the fiscal year for which the amounts were
appropriated.''.
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Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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