S 3023
116th Congress
Senate
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PACT Act of 2019
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 11, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Dec 11, 2019
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Pediatricians Accelerate Childhood Therapies Act of 2019 or the PACT Act of 2019
This bill provides statutory authority for the Trans-National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pediatric Research Consortium to coordinate pediatric research across national health research institutions. The consortium, chaired by the director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, must develop priorities for the NIH to award research grants to early career pediatric researchers, including physician-scientists and researchers from underrepresented populations.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
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