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A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to construct or improve facilities for the conduct of nursing research by institutions of higher…

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A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to construct or improve facilities for the conduct of nursing research by institutions of higher education.

Introduced: March 17, 1988 See on congress.gov
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Passed Senate
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Became law
Mar 24, 1988
Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Mar 17, 1988
Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Mar 17, 1988
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Center for Nursing Research to acquire, construct, improve, or repair laboratories and other research facilities to increase the capacity of institutions of higher education to conduct nursing research.

Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants and enter into contracts for such purposes.

Requires the Director, from amounts appropriated under this Act, to reserve 15 percent to carry out such purposes through grants to, and contracts with, institutions that received less than an aggregate of a specified amount in Federal financial assistance for research and development in the preceding two fiscal years.

Requires matching funds, in cash or in kind, from non-Federal sources.

Directs the Secretary to require technical and scientific peer review of applications for grants and contracts.

Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991.

What's happening now March 24, 1988

Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1
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Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · May 25, 1988
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4190: A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to construct or improve facilities for the conduct of nursing research by institutions of higher education.. 100th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/100-HR-4190/
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"H.R. 4190: A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to construct or improve facilities for the conduct of nursing research by institutions of higher education.." 100th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/100-HR-4190/.
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H.R. 4190, 100th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/100-HR-4190/.
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