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Birth Control and Infertility Research Centers Act of 1989

Introduced: July 20, 1989 See on congress.gov
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 27, 1990
For Further Action See H.R.4583.
Aug 8, 1989
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Jul 20, 1989
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Jul 20, 1989
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Birth Control and Infertility Research Centers Act of 1989 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Institute of Child Health and Human Development to make grants and enter into contracts for centers for improving methods of birth control and centers for diagnosing and treating infertility. Requires the Director, subject to appropriations, to provide for three centers with respect to birth control and two centers with respect to infertility.

Requires each center to: (1) conduct clinical and other applied research; (2) develop training protocols for and conduct training of physicians, scientists, nurses, and other health and allied health professionals; (3) develop model continuing education programs; and (4) disseminate information to such professionals. Allows a center to use the funds to provide: (1) stipends for health and allied health professionals enrolled in the training programs; and (2) fees to individuals serving as subjects in the clinical trials.

Requires each center to use the facilities of a single institution, or be formed from a consortium of cooperating institutions, meeting requirements as prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Allows support for a center to be for a period of up to five years, with extensions of one or more periods of up to five years if the center's operations have been reviewed by a peer review group and the group has so recommended.

Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary to establish a program of entering into agreements with health professionals, including graduate students, under which the professionals agree to conduct research with respect to birth control or infertility in consideration of the Government agreeing to repay, for each year of such service, not more than a specified amount of the principal and interest of their educational loans. Applies provisions of the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program to this program, except as inconsistent. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Requires amounts appropriated to remain available until the end of the second fiscal year after they are appropriated.

What's happening now April 27, 1990

For Further Action See H.R.4583.

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