Alzheimer’s Accountability and Investment Act

Alzheimer's Accountability and Investment Act

This act requires the National Institutes of Health to annually submit, beginning in FY2024, an estimate of its budget and personnel needs for carrying out initiatives pursuant to the National Alzheimer's Project directly to the President for review and transmittal to Congress. The Department of Health and Human Services and the Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Research, Care, and Services may comment on the budget estimate but may not change it.

The National Alzheimer's Project supports coordination of federal planning, research, and other efforts to address Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

[118th Congress Public Law 93]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 118-93
118th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To require an annual budget estimate for the initiatives of the National 
Institutes of Health pursuant to reports and recommendations made under 
   the National Alzheimer's Project Act. <<NOTE: Oct. 1, 2024 -  [S. 
    134]>>  <<NOTE: Alzheimer's Accountability and Investment Act.>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Alzheimer's 
Accountability and Investment Act.>> 
SECTION 1. <<NOTE: 42 USC 11201 note.>>  SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Alzheimer's Accountability and 
Investment Act''.
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF PROJECT.

    Section 2 of the National Alzheimer's Project Act (42 U.S.C. 11225) 
is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (i); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (g) the following:

    ``(h) Professional Judgment Budget.--For fiscal year 2024 and each 
subsequent fiscal year, the Director of the National Institutes of 
Health shall prepare and submit, directly to the President for review 
and transmittal to Congress, after reasonable opportunity for comment, 
but without change, by the Secretary of Health and Human Services and 
the Advisory Council, an annual budget estimate for the initiatives of 
the National Institutes of Health pursuant to the reports and 
recommendations made under this Act, including an estimate of the number 
and type of personnel needs for the National Institutes of Health.''.

    Approved October 1, 2024.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 134 (H.R. 620):
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 118-531 (Comm. on Energy and Commerce) accompanying 
H.R. 620.
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 170 (2024):
            July 30, considered and passed Senate.
            Sept. 23, considered and passed House.

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