To increase the amounts provided under Defense Health Program and RDT&E for the Army for research and development relating to leishmaniasis, the skin ailment resulting from parasitic sand flies in Iraq, and to provide an offset.

SA 3329. Mr. DASCHLE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2400, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2005 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Services, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

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SEC. 326. AMOUNT FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR IMPROVED PREVENTION OF LEISHMANIASIS.

Of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the Defense Health Program for research, development, test, and evaluation under section 303(a)(2), $10,000,000 shall be available for the Military Infectious Diseases Research Program for research and advanced development of products to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of leishmaniasis.