A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to a national pediatric research network.
Pediatric Research Improvement Act of 2016
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.
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.Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Became Public Law No: 114-255.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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