107th Congress / Bills / H R 717

Title

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for research with respect to various forms of muscular dystrophy, including Duchenne, Becker, limb girdle, congenital, facioscapulohumeral, myotonic, oculopharyngeal, distal, and Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophies.

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Categories (What are categories?)

Budgets | Child health | Children | Citizen participation | Congress | Congressional reporting requirements | Continuing education | Donation of organs, tissues, etc. | Education | Epidemiology | Executive departments | Executive reorganization -- Department of Health and Human Services | Federal advisory bodies | Federal aid to health facilities | Federal aid to medical education | Federal aid to medical research -- Planning | Genetic research | Government information | Government paperwork | Government publicity | Health education | Health policy | Health surveys | Higher education | Human genetics | Medical care | Medical screening | Medical statistics | Medicine | Muscular diseases | Pharmaceutical research | Politics and government | Research centers | Rural affairs | Rural health | Science policy

Votes on this bill

Date	Chamber	Result	Vote
9/24/01	House	Passed	Session 1, roll call 349: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, As Amended Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research and Education Amendments