IDeA Reauthorization Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 2005 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2005 To improve the Institutional Development Award program of the National Institutes of Health. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 10, 2025 Mrs. Hyde-Smith (for herself, Mrs. Capito, and Ms. Hassan) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To improve the Institutional Development Award program of the National Institutes of Health. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``IDeA Reauthorization Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARD PROGRAM. Section 461(b)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285k(b)(1)) is amended-- (1) in subparagraph (A), by adding at the end the following: ``Such program shall be called the `Institutional Development Award program' or the `IDeA program'.''; (2) by amending subparagraph (B) to read as follows: ``(B) The entities referred to in subparagraph (A) 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 Health, excluding funding under this subsection, received by entities in the State, calculated on a rolling multi-year average, as determined by the Director of NIH (referred to in this paragraph as an `IDeA State').''; and (3) by adding at the end the following: ``(D) The NIH shall submit to Congress, as part of its Federal budget submission, or make available through an annually updated, publicly accessible data source-- ``(i) a description of the strategy and objecti