Last progress June 10, 2025 (5 months ago)
Introduced on June 10, 2025 by Cindy Hyde-Smith
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
This bill updates an NIH program that helps states with lower levels of research funding build up their science programs. It sets a clear rule for which states qualify: states at or below the median in total NIH grant funding (not counting this program) based on a rolling multi-year average. It also requires NIH to share more information each year about how the program is working, including its goals, the awards it made, how well it brings these states into big NIH projects, how many grant reviewers come from these states, and progress in research quality and training over the last five years .
Here’s what that means for people and communities:
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