Legislation Introduced to Provide COVID-19 Relief to Research Community

On June 24, 2020, lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced bipartisan legislation to provide emergency relief appropriations for federal science agencies to support the research community during the ongoing public health crisis.
The Research Investment to Spark the Economy (RISE) Act (H.R. 7308), sponsored by Representatives Diana DeGette (D-CO), Fred Upton (R-MI), Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), Frank Lucas (R-OK), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), and Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH), would authorize approximately $26 billion in supplemental funding for federal research agencies to be awarded to research universities, independent institutions, and national laboratories to address the COVID-19 related disruption to federally funded research.
The $26 billion in relief funding would be allocated to federal departments and agencies as follows:

$10 billion for the National Institutes of Health
$3 billion for the National Science Foundation
$2 billion for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$5 billion for the Department of Energy, of which $3 billion would be available for the Office of Science
$300 million for the U.S. Geological Survey within Department of the Interior
$3 billion for the Department of Defense
$650 million for the Department of Commerce, of which $350 million would be directed to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and $300 million to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
$380 million for the U.S. Department of A...

Source: Public Policy Reports - July 6, 2020 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news