May 20, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 95 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

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          NIMHD RESEARCH ENDOWMENT REVITALIZATION ACT OF 2019

  Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 371, S. 2927.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2927) to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     provide that the authority of the Director of the National 
     Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to make 
     certain research endowments applies with respect to both 
     current and former centers of excellence, and for other 
     purposes.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to proceeding to the 
measure?
  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill 
which had been reported from the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
and Pensions.
  Mr. PORTMAN. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read 
a third time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read 
the third time.
  Mr. PORTMAN. I know of no further debate on the bill.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no further debate, the bill having 
been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass?
  The bill (S. 2927) was passed, as follows

                                S. 2927

       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 ``NIMHD Research Endowment 
     Revitalization Act of 2019''.

     SEC. 2. RESEARCH ENDOWMENTS AT BOTH CURRENT AND FORMER 
                   CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE.

       Paragraph (1) of section 464z-3(h) of the Public Health 
     Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285t(h)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(1) In general.--The Director of the Institute may carry 
     out a program to facilitate minority health disparities 
     research and other health disparities research by providing 
     for research endowments--
       ``(A) at current or former centers of excellence under 
     section 736; and
       ``(B) at current or former centers of excellence under 
     section 464z-4.''.

  Mr. PORTMAN. I ask unanimous consent that the motion to reconsider be 
considered made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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