A bill to amend section 431 of the Public Health Service Act to provide funds to the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke for research in the area of regeneration of the spinal cord.

Amends title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act to provide that the institute currently authorized to conduct research on neurological diseases shall be named the "National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke." Requires obligation of at least $16,000,000 of the sums appropriated for such Institute for research in the area of regeneration of the spinal cord.