S.Amdt. 1939

SA 1939. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to
establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the
National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub
program, to require a strategy and report on economic security,
science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to
establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in subtitle A of title I of
division F, insert the following:

SEC. 61__. NIH STRATEGIC PLAN.

Section 402(m)(2) of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 282(m)(2)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (E), by striking ``; and'' and
inserting a semicolon;
(2) by redesignating subparagraph (F) as subparagraph (G);
and
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (E) the following:
``(F) address national security issues, including ways in
which the National Institutes of Health can engage with other
Federal agencies to modernize the national security strategy
of the National Institutes of Health; and''.
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