UMN Washington Update

The University of Minnesota receives a weekly congressional update prepared by Lewis-Burke Associates LLC in DC with additional federal policy updates and funding opportunities. Sarah Neimeyer (neimeyer@umn.edu) is the University’s Director of Federal Relations. 

August 12, 2022 Update

• Appropriations Update: Senate Appropriations Committee Releases FY 2023 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Funding Bill
• Policy Update: CMS Issues Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule
• Funding Opportunities:
• ED Announces NIA for Basic Needs for Postsecondary Students Program
• DARPA MTO Releases Next Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing Center Planning Call
• Future Funding Opportunity: NICHD Issues Notice of Upcoming Prize Competition Announcement for the RADx Tech for Maternal Health Challenge
• Engagement Opportunity: Federal Advisory Committee Nomination Opportunities - August 12, 2022

August 5, 2022 Update

• Appropriations Update: Senate Appropriations Committee Releases FY 2023 Funding Bills 
• Congressional Update: Congress Passes CHIPS+Science Legislation 
• Policy Update: CMS Issues Proposed Rule Promoting Equity and Nondiscrimination in Health Care
• Agency Update: NSF Selects James L. Moore III to Lead the Education and Human Resources Directorate
• Funding Opportunities: 
• NSF Issues Dear Colleague Letter - Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS): Innovative Solutions to Sustainable Chemistry (CAS-SC)
• NOAA Releases FY 2023 Climate Program Office Competitions
   

July 29, 2022 Update

• Policy Update: Biden Administration Announces FY 2024 R&D Priorities
• Congressional Updates: 
• Senate Appropriations Committee Releases FY 2023 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill (NIH, AHRQ, IES)   
• Senate Appropriations Committee Releases FY 2023 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill  (NSF, NASA, NOAA, NIST)      
• Senate Democrats Propose Energy, Climate, Health Care, and Tax Reconciliation Bill 
• Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Holds OSTP Director Nomination Hearing 
• Funding Opportunities: 
• NSF Releases Solicitation for Regional Innovation Engines
• NIST Releases STEM Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) NOFO
   

July 15, 2022 Update

• Congressional Updates: 
• House Appropriations Committee Approves FY 2023 State and Foreign Operations Bill
• Summer 2022 Congressional Forecast
• Policy Update: CMS Proposes to Reduce Physician Pay for 2023
• Agency Update: NSF Engines Roadshow Takeaways
• Funding Opportunities: 
• EPA Releases Two Funding Opportunities Related to Water Quality
• Department of Labor: Nursing Expansion Grant Program
• NASA Releases Sixth ULI Solicitation
• NSF Releases Partnership to Advance Conservation Science and Practice Solicitation  
• Engagement Opportunity: NIH Releases RFI on Diet-Related Exposures and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
   

July 8, 2022 Update

• Congressional Updates:
• House Appropriations Committee Approves FY 2023 Interior and Environment Bill (EPA, NEA, NEH)
• House Appropriations Committee Approves FY 2023 Commerce, Justice, and Science Bill (NSF, NASA, NOAA, NIST)
• House Appropriations Committee Approves FY 2023 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Bill (NIH, AHRQ, IES)    
• Funding Opportunity: DOD Releases Defense Education and Civilian University Research Partnership
   

July 1, 2022 Update

Congressional, Administration Updates and Funding, Engagement Opportunities               

• Congressional Updates:
• House Appropriations Committee Approves FY 2023 Agriculture Bill (NIFA)         
• House Appropriations Committee Approves FY 2023 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill (DOE)        
• House Appropriations Committee Approves FY 2023 Defense Bill
• House Appropriations Committee Approves FY 2023 Homeland Security Bill            
• House Passes Bipartisan Mental Health Legislation             
• House Armed Services Committee Advances FY 2023 National Defense Authorization Act 
• Administration Update: ED Releases Proposed Title IX Regulations and Invites Public Comment    
• Funding Opportunities:
• ED Announces NIA for Promise Neighborhoods Program    
• NSF Releases Solicitation for Building Synthetic Communities for Biology, Mitigating Climate Change, Sustainability, and Biotechnology (Synthetic Communities)          
• NSF Releases Solicitation for Synthesis Center for Molecular and Cellular Sciences (SCMCS)                 
• Engagement Opportunity: HHS Issues Request for Information for Initiative to Strengthen Primary Health Care