H.Con.Res. 46 — Introduced in House

IV 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. CON. RES. 46 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 14, 2015 Mr. Pitts submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of the Congress that the National Institutes of Health should encourage a global pediatric clinical trial network, and for other purposes. That it is the sense of the Congress that— (1) the National Institutes of Health should encourage a global pediatric clinical trial network through the allocation of grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to supplement the salaries of new and early investigators who participate in the global pediatric clinical trial network; (2) National Institutes of Health grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements should be awarded, solely for the purpose of supplementing the salaries of new and early investigators, to entities that participate in the global pediatric clinical trial network; (3) the Food and Drug Administration should engage the European Medicines Agency and other foreign regulatory entities during the formation of the global pediatric clinical trials network to encourage their participation; and (4) once a global pediatric clinical trial network is established and becomes operational, the Food and Drug Administration should continue to engage the European Medicines Agency and other foreign regulatory entities to encourage and facilitate their participation in the network with the goal of enhancing the global reach of the network.