119-s2005

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2005 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 2005

To improve the Institutional Development Award program of the National 
 Institutes of Health.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 June 10, 2025

 Mrs. Hyde-Smith (for herself, Mrs. Capito, and Ms. Hassan) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
 on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

_______________________________________________________________________

 A BILL

To improve the Institutional Development Award program of the National 
 Institutes of Health.

 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 ``IDeA Reauthorization Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARD PROGRAM.

 

Section 461

    (b)

    (1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
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    (b)

    (1) ) is amended--

    (1) in subparagraph
        (A) , by adding at the end the 
 following: ``Such program shall be called the `Institutional 
 Development Award program' or the `IDeA program'.'';

    (2) by amending subparagraph
        (B) to read as follows:
 ``
        (B) The entities referred to in subparagraph
        (A) are 
 entities that conduct biomedical or behavioral research and are 
 located in a State that is at or below the median of all States 
 in aggregate grant funding from the National Institutes of 
 Health, excluding funding under this subsection, received by 
 entities in the State, calculated on a rolling multi-year 
 average, as determined by the Director of NIH (referred to in 
 this paragraph as an `IDeA State').''; and

    (3) by adding at the end the following:
 ``
            (D) The NIH shall submit to Congress, as part of its 
 Federal budget submission, or make available through an 
 annually updated, publicly accessible data source--
 ``
            (i) a description of the strategy and objectives 
 of the IDeA program;
 ``
            (ii) a description of the awards made under such 
 program in the previous fiscal year, including--
 ``
            (I) the efforts and accomplishments to 
 more fully integrate the IDeA States in major 
 activities and initiatives of the National 
 Institutes of Health;
 ``
            (II) the percentage of IDeA program 
 reviewers who are from IDeA States; and
 ``
            (III) updates on programs or large 
 collaborator awards involving a partnership of 
 organizations and institutions from IDeA States 
 and non-IDeA States; and
 ``
            (iii) a description of gains in academic research 
 quality and in biomedical science human resource 
 development achieved through the IDeA program over the 
 last 5 fiscal years.''.
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