,,ii  #aaith ,,congress  #ast ,session  
,s4 #bjje  ,,in ,,the ,,senate ,,of     
,,the ,,united ,,states  ,june #aj1     
#bjbe,mrs4 ,hyde-,smith 7for herself1   
,mrs4 ,capito1 and ,ms4 ,hassan7        
introduced the following bill2 which was
 read twice and referred to the         
,committee on ,health1 ,education1      
,labor1 and ,pensions  ,a ,,bill  ,to   
improve the ,institutional ,development 
,award program of the ,national         
,institutes of ,health4  #a4 ,short     
title ,this ,act may be cited as the    
,i,de,a ,reauthorization ,act of #bjbe4 
#b4 ,institutional development award    
program ,section #dfa7;b77#a7 of the    
,public ,health ,service ,act 7#db      
,u4,s4,c4 #bhek7b77#a77 is amended--    
7#a7 in subparagraph 7,a71 by adding at 
the end the following3 ,such program    
shall be called the ,institutional      
,development ,award program or the      
,i,de,a program42  7#b7 by amending     
subparagraph 7,b7 to read as follows3   
7,b7 ,the entities referred to in       

subparagraph 7,a7 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 ,health1   
excluding funding under this subsection1
 received by entities in the ,state1    
calculated on a rolling multi-year      
average1 as determined by the ,director 
of ,,nih 7referred to in this paragraph 
as an ,i,de,a ,state74  2 and  7#c7 by  
adding at the end the following3  7,d7  
,the ,,nih shall submit to ,congress1 as
 part of its ,federal budget submission1
 or make available through an annually  
updated1 publicly accessible data       
source-- 7i7 a description of the       
strategy and objectives of the ,i,de,a  
program2  7ii7 a description of the     
awards made under such program in the   
previous fiscal year1 including-- 7,i7  
the efforts and accomplishments to more 
fully integrate the ,i,de,a ,states in  
major activities and initiatives of the 

,national ,institutes of ,health2       
7,,ii7 the percentage of ,i,de,a program
 reviewers who are from ,i,de,a ,states2
 and  7,,iii7 updates on programs or    
large collaborator awards involving a   
partnership of organizations and        
institutions from ,i,de,a ,states and   
non-,i,de,a ,states2 and  7iii7 a       
description of gains in academic        
research quality and in biomedical      
science human resource development      
achieved through the ,i,de,a program    
over the last #e fiscal years4  4