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‘‘(d) R
EPORTS
.—Not later than 1 year after the date 1
of enactment of this section, and every second year there-2
after, the Secretary shall prepare and submit to the appro-3
priate committees of Congress a report describing the ac-4
tivities carried out under this section during the period 5
for which the report is being prepared. 6
‘‘(e) A
UTHORIZATION OF
A
PPROPRIATIONS
.—For the 7
purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized 8
to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for 9
each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012. 10
‘‘(f) L
IMITATION ON
T
ERMINATION OF
O
FFICE
.— 11
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Office es-12
tablished under this section may not be terminated, reor-13
ganized, or have any of its powers or duties transferred 14
unless such termination, reorganization, or transfer is ap-15
proved by Congress through the adoption of a concurrent 16
resolution of approval.’’. 17
(b) T
RANSFER OF
F
UNCTIONS
.—There are trans-18
ferred to the Office on Women’s Health (established under 19
section 229 of the Public Health Service Act, as added 20
by this section), all functions exercised by the Office on 21
Women’s Health of the Public Health Service prior to the 22
date of enactment of this section, including all personnel 23
and compensation authority, all delegation and assign-24
ment authority, and all remaining appropriations. All or-25
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ders, determinations, rules, regulations, permits, agree-1
ments, grants, contracts, certificates, licenses, registra-2
tions, privileges, and other administrative actions that— 3
(1) have been issued, made, granted, or allowed 4
to become effective by the President, any Federal 5
agency or official thereof, or by a court of competent 6
jurisdiction, in the performance of functions trans-7
ferred under this subsection; and 8
(2) are in effect at the time this section takes 9
effect, or were final before the date of enactment of 10
this section and are to become effective on or after 11
such date; 12
shall continue in effect according to their terms until 13
modified, terminated, superseded, set aside, or revoked in 14
accordance with law by the President, the Secretary, or 15
other authorized official, a court of competent jurisdiction, 16
or by operation of law. 17
SEC. 3. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVEN-18
TION OFFICE OF WOMEN’S HEALTH. 19
Part A of title III of the Public Health Service Act 20
(42 U.S.C. 241 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 21
the following: 22
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‘‘SEC. 310A. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVEN-1
TION OFFICE OF WOMEN’S HEALTH. 2
‘‘(a) E
STABLISHMENT
.—There is established within 3
the Office of the Director of the Centers for Disease Con-4
trol and Prevention, an office to be known as the Office 5
of Women’s Health (referred to in this section as the ‘Of-6
fice’). The Office shall be headed by a director who shall 7
be appointed by the Director of such Centers. 8
‘‘(b) P
URPOSE
.—The Director of the Office shall— 9
‘‘(1) report to the Director of the Centers for 10
Disease Control and Prevention on the current level 11
of the Centers’ activity regarding women’s health 12
conditions across, where appropriate, age, biological, 13
and sociocultural contexts, in all aspects of the Cen-14
ters’ work, including prevention programs, public 15
and professional education, services, and treatment; 16
‘‘(2) establish short-range and long-range goals 17
and objectives within the Centers for women’s health 18
and, as relevant and appropriate, coordinate with 19
other appropriate offices on activities within the 20
Centers that relate to prevention, research, edu-21
cation and training, service delivery, and policy de-22
velopment, for issues of particular concern to 23
women; 24
‘‘(3) identify projects in women’s health that 25
should be conducted or supported by the Centers; 26
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‘‘(4) consult with health professionals, non-1
governmental organizations, consumer organizations, 2
women’s health professionals, and other individuals 3
and groups, as appropriate, on the policy of the Cen-4
ters with regard to women; and 5
‘‘(5) serve as a member of the Department of 6
Health and Human Services Coordinating Com-7
mittee on Women’s Health (established under sec-8
tion 229(b)(4)). 9
‘‘(c) C
OORDINATING
C
OMMITTEE
.— 10
‘‘(1) E
STABLISHMENT
.—In carrying out sub-11
section (b), the Director of the Office shall establish 12
a committee to be known as the Coordinating Com-13
mittee on Women’s Health (referred to in this sub-14
section as the ‘Coordinating Committee’). 15
‘‘(2) C
OMPOSITION
.—The Coordinating Com-16
mittee shall be composed of the directors of the na-17
tional centers and other appropriate officials of the 18
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 19
‘‘(3) C
HAIRPERSON
.—The Director of the Of-20
fice shall serve as the Chairperson of the Coordi-21
nating Committee. 22
‘‘(4) D
UTIES
.—With respect to women’s health, 23
the Coordinating Committee shall assist the Director 24
of the Office in— 25
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‘‘(A) identifying the need for programs and 1
activities that focus on women’s health; 2
‘‘(B) identifying needs regarding the co-3
ordination of activities, including intramural 4
and extramural multidisciplinary activities; and 5
‘‘(C) making recommendations to the Di-6
rector of the Centers for Disease Control and 7
Prevention concerning findings made under 8
subparagraphs (A) and (B). 9
‘‘(d) R
EPORTS
.—Not later than 1 year after the date 10
of enactment of this section, and every second year there-11
after, the Director of the Office shall prepare and submit 12
to the appropriate committees of Congress a report de-13
scribing the activities carried out under this section during 14
the period for which the report is being prepared. 15
‘‘(e) D
EFINITION
.—As used in this section, the term 16
‘women’s health conditions’, with respect to women of all 17
age, ethnic, and racial groups, means diseases, disorders, 18
and conditions— 19
‘‘(1) unique to, significantly more serious for, 20
or significantly more prevalent in women; and 21
‘‘(2) for which the factors of medical risk or 22
type of medical intervention are different for women, 23
or for which there is reasonable evidence that indi-24
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cates that such factors or types may be different for 1
women. 2
‘‘(f) A
UTHORIZATION OF
A
PPROPRIATIONS
.—For the 3
purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized 4
to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for 5
each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012. 6
‘‘(g) L
IMITATION ON
T
ERMINATION OF
O
FFICE
.— 7
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Office es-8
tablished under this section may not be terminated, reor-9
ganized, or have any of its powers or duties transferred 10
unless such termination, reorganization, or transfer is ap-11
proved by Congress through the adoption of a concurrent 12
resolution of approval.’’. 13
SEC. 4. OFFICE OF WOMEN’S HEALTH RESEARCH. 14
Section 486(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 15
U.S.C. 287d(a)) is amended by inserting ‘‘and who shall 16
report directly to the Director’’ before the period at the 17
end thereof . 18
SEC. 5. SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERV-19
ICES ADMINISTRATION. 20
Section 501(f) of the Public Health Service Act (42 21
U.S.C. 290aa(f)) is amended— 22
(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘who shall 23
report directly to the Administrator’’ before the pe-24
riod; 25
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(2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as para-1
graph (5); and 2
(3) by inserting after paragraph (3), the fol-3
lowing: 4
‘‘(4) O
FFICE
.—Nothing in this subsection shall 5
be construed to preclude the Secretary from estab-6
lishing within the Substance Abuse and Mental 7
Health Administration an Office of Women’s 8
Health.’’. 9
SEC. 6. AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUAL-10
ITY ACTIVITIES REGARDING WOMEN’S 11
HEALTH. 12
Part C of title IX of the Public Health Service Act 13
(42 U.S.C. 299c et seq.) is amended— 14
(1) by redesignating sections 937 and 938 as 15
sections 938 and 939, respectively; 16
(2) by inserting after section 936 the following: 17
‘‘SEC. 937. ACTIVITIES REGARDING WOMEN’S HEALTH. 18
‘‘(a) E
STABLISHMENT
.—There is established within 19
the Office of the Director, an Office of Women’s Health 20
and Gender-Based Research (referred to in this section 21
as the ‘Office’). The Office shall be headed by a director 22
who shall be appointed by the Director of Healthcare and 23
Research Quality. 24
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‘‘(b) P
URPOSE
.—The official designated under sub-1
section (a) shall— 2
‘‘(1) report to the Director on the current 3
Agency level of activity regarding women’s health, 4
across, where appropriate, age, biological, and 5
sociocultural contexts, in all aspects of Agency work, 6
including the development of evidence reports and 7
clinical practice protocols and the conduct of re-8
search into patient outcomes, delivery of health care 9
services, quality of care, and access to health care; 10
‘‘(2) establish short-range and long-range goals 11
and objectives within the Agency for research impor-12
tant to women’s health and, as relevant and appro-13
priate, coordinate with other appropriate offices on 14
activities within the Agency that relate to health 15
services and medical effectiveness research, for 16
issues of particular concern to women; 17
‘‘(3) identify projects in women’s health that 18
should be conducted or supported by the Agency; 19
‘‘(4) consult with health professionals, non-20
governmental organizations, consumer organizations, 21
women’s health professionals, and other individuals 22
and groups, as appropriate, on Agency policy with 23
regard to women; and 24
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‘‘(5) serve as a member of the Department of 1
Health and Human Services Coordinating Com-2
mittee on Women’s Health (established under sec-3
tion 229(b)(4)). 4
‘‘(c) C
OORDINATING
C
OMMITTEE
.— 5
‘‘(1) E
STABLISHMENT
.—In carrying out sub-6
section (b), the official designated under subsection 7
(a) shall establish a committee to be known as the 8
Coordinating Committee on Women’s Health (re-9
ferred to in this subsection as the ‘Coordinating 10
Committee’). 11
‘‘(2) C
OMPOSITION
.—The Coordinating Com-12
mittee shall be composed of the official designated 13
under subsection (a) and the directors of the centers 14
and offices of the Agency. 15
‘‘(3) C
HAIRPERSON
.—The official designated 16
under subsection (a) shall serve as the Chairperson 17
of the Coordinating Committee. 18
‘‘(4) D
UTIES
.—With respect to research on 19
women’s health, the Coordinating Committee shall 20
assist the official designated under subsection (a) 21
in— 22
‘‘(A) identifying the need for such re-23
search, and making an estimate each fiscal year 24
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of the funds needed to adequately support the 1
research; 2
‘‘(B) identifying needs regarding the co-3
ordination of research activities, including in-4
tramural and extramural multidisciplinary ac-5
tivities; and 6
‘‘(C) making recommendations to the Di-7
rector of the Agency concerning findings made 8
under subparagraphs (A) and (B). 9
‘‘(d) R
EPORTS
.—Not later than 1 year after the date 10
of enactment of this section, and every second year there-11
after, the official designated under subsection (a) shall 12
prepare and submit to the appropriate committees of Con-13
gress a report describing the activities carried out under 14
this section during the period for which the report is being 15
prepared. 16
‘‘(e) L
IMITATION ON
T
ERMINATION OF
O
FFICE
.— 17
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Office es-18
tablished under this section may not be terminated, reor-19
ganized, or have any of its powers or duties transferred 20
unless such termination, reorganization, or transfer is ap-21
proved by Congress through the adoption of a concurrent 22
resolution of approval.’’; and 23
(3) by adding at the end of section 938 (as re-24
designated by paragraph (1)) the following: 25
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