Abolishing Woke Awards for Research and Development Act of 2024

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8433 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8433

    To amend the Public Health Service Act to require the National 
 Institutes of Health to select awardees based on merit, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 16, 2024

 Ms. Hageman (for herself, Mr. Banks, and Mr. Burlison) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Public Health Service Act to require the National 
 Institutes of Health to select awardees based on merit, 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 ``Abolishing Woke Awards for Research 
and Development Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING NIH TO SELECT AWARDEES BASED ON MERIT.

    Part A of title IV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 281 
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 404P. REQUIRING NIH TO SELECT AWARDEES BASED ON MERIT.

    ``(a) In General.--The National Institutes of Health (including any 
officer thereof)--
            ``(1) shall select the recipients of grants, contracts, 
        cooperative agreements, or other awards based only on--
                    ``(A) the merits of the proposals; and
                    ``(B) the intrinsic research, development, and 
                scientific benefits of the proposals; and
            ``(2) shall not mandate the use of diversity statements or 
        any other diversity, equity, and inclusion material or 
        documentation as a qualification for, or condition of receipt 
        of, an award.
    ``(b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section may be 
construed to prevent the National Institutes of Health from conducting 
or supporting the disaggregation of data by population for purposes of 
conducting research or developing products.
    ``(c) Definition.--In this section, the term `diversity statement' 
means any written or oral statement discussing--
            ``(1) the race, sex, color, ethnicity, gender identity, or 
        sexual orientation of the person making the statement;
            ``(2) the views of the person making the statement on, 
        experience with, or contributions to--
                    ``(A) diversity, equity, and inclusion;
                    ``(B) marginalized groups;
                    ``(C) anti-racism;
                    ``(D) social justice;
                    ``(E) intersectionality;
                    ``(F) confessing one's race-based privilege; or
                    ``(G) related concepts;
            ``(3) the views of the person making the statement on, 
        experience with the race, sex, color, ethnicity, gender 
        identity, or sexual orientation of students and co-workers; or
            ``(4) the views of the person making the statement 
        regarding any theory or practice that advocates for the 
        differential treatment of any individual or groups of 
        individuals based on race, sex, color, gender, ethnicity, 
        gender identity, or sexual orientation.''.
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