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S 3810 116th Congress Senate Government Operations and Politics Department of Health and Human Services Employment discrimination and employee rights Federal officials Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Government ethics and transparency, public corruption National Institutes of Health (NIH)

National Institutes of Health Director Protection Act

Introduced: May 21, 2020 Introduced by: Markey, Edward J. Democratic · Massachusetts See on congress.gov
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May 21, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
May 21, 2020
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

National Institutes of Health Director Protection Act

This bill specifies that the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) may only fire a director of a national research institute or national center of the NIH on the basis of malfeasance, neglect of office, or incapacity.

What's happening now May 21, 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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