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The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study on the racial and ethnic diversity among the following groups: All applicants for grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements awarded by the National Institutes of Health during the period beginning on January 1, 2009, and ending December 31, 2019. All recipients of such grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements during such period. All members of the peer review panels of such applicants and recipients, respectively. Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall complete the study under paragraph
(1)and submit to Congress a report containing the results of such study. Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, and biennially thereafter, the Director of the National Institutes of Health, in collaboration with the Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, shall submit to Congress a report that details and evaluates— the steps taken during the applicable report period by the Director of the National Institutes of Health to enforce the expanded planning, coordination, review, and evaluation authority provided the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities under section 464z–3(h) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 285(h) ) over all minority health and health disparity research that is conducted or supported by the Institutes and Centers at the National Institutes of Health; and the outcomes of such steps. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act and biennially thereafter until 2024, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a report that identifies— the racial and ethnic diversity of community-based organizations that applied for Federal enrollment funding provided pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ) (including the amendments made by such Act); the percentage of such organizations that were awarded such funding; and the impact of such community-based organizations’ enrollment efforts on the insurance status of their communities. The Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities shall prepare an annual report on the activities carried out or to be carried out by such institute, and shall submit each such report to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Director of the National Institutes of Health. With respect to the fiscal year involved, the report shall— describe and evaluate the progress made in health disparities research conducted or supported by institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health; summarize and analyze expenditures made for activities with respect to health disparities research conducted or supported by the National Institutes of Health; include a separate statement applying the requirements of paragraphs
(1)and
(2)specifically to minority health disparities research; and contain such recommendations as the Director of the Institute considers appropriate.
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