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 ``National Institutes of Health Reform Act of 2006´´.
TITLE I—NIH REFORM
SEC. 101. ORGANIZATION OF NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. (a) In General.— Section 401 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 281) is amended to read as follows:
``SEC. 401. ORGANIZATION OF NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH.
``(a) Relation to Public Health Service.—The National Institutes of Health is an agency of the Service. ``(b) National Research Institutes and National Centers.—The following agencies of the National Institutes of Health are national research institutes or national centers: ``(1) The National Cancer Institute. ``(2) The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. ``(3) The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. ``(4) The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. ``(5) The National Institute on Aging. ``(6) The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. ``(7) The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. ``(8) The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. ``(9) The National Eye Institute. ``(10) The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. ``(11) The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. ``(12) The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. ``(13) The National Institute on Drug Abuse. ``(14) The National Institute of Mental Health. ``(15) The National Institute of General Medical Sciences. ``(16) The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. ``(17) The National Institute of Nursing Research. ``(18) The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. ``(19) The National Human Genome Research Institute. ``(20) The National Library of Medicine. ``(21) The National Center for Research Resources. ``(22) The John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences. ``(23) The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. ``(24) The National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. ``(25) Any other national center that, as an agency separate from any national research institute, was established within the National Institutes of Health as of the day before the date of the enactment of the National Institutes of Health Reform Act of 2006.
``(c) Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives.—
``(1) In general.—Within the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health, there shall be a Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (referred to in this subsection as the `Division'). ``(2) Offices within division.— ``(A) Offices.—The following offices are within the Division: The Office of AIDS Research, the Office of Research on Women's Health, the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, the Office of Disease Prevention, the Office of Dietary Supplements, the Office of Rare Diseases, and any other office located within the Office of the Director of NIH as of the day before the date of the enactment of the National Institutes of Health Reform Act of 2006. In addition to such offices, the Director of NIH may establish within the Division such additional offices or other administrative units as the Director determines to be appropriate. ``(B) Authorities.—Each office in the Division— ``(i) shall continue to carry out the authorities that were in effect for the office before the date of enactment referred to in subparagraph (A); and ``(ii) shall, as determined appropriate by the Director of NIH, support the Division with respect to the authorities described in section 402(b)(7).
``(d) Organization.—
``(1) Number of institutes and centers.—In the National Institutes of Health, the number of national research institutes and national centers may not exceed a total of 27, including any such institutes or centers established under authority of paragraph (2) or under authority of this title as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of the National Institutes of Health Reform Act of 2006.´´.