S.Amdt. 1797

SA 1797. Ms. WARREN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1618 proposed by Mr. McConnell (for Mr. Hatch (for himself
and Ms. Murkowski)) to the bill H.R. 1, to provide for reconciliation
pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget
for fiscal year 2018; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

Strike part VI of subtitle A of title I and insert the
following:

PART VI--NIH AND FDA FUNDING

SEC. 11061. NIH AND FDA FUNDING.

(a) Appropriation.--There is authorized to be appropriated,
and there is appropriated, out of amounts in the Treasury not
otherwise obligated, to the Secretary of Health and Human
Services (referred to in this section as the ``Secretary''),
$80,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2018, for the purpose of
providing additional funding to the National Institutes of
Health and the Food and Drug Administration. Amounts
appropriated under this subsection shall remain available
until expended.
(b) Allocation.--The Secretary shall allocate the amount
appropriated under subsection (a) to each of the Institutes
of Health and the Food and Drug Administration by
distributing to each such agency a portion of the amount so
appropriated that bears the same relation to the total amount
appropriated under subsection (a) as the amount of
discretionary funds appropriated to such agency for fiscal
year 2017 bears to the total amount of discretionary funding
appropriated to both agencies for fiscal year 2017.
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