Current StatusFY 2008 Funding
On
December 26, 2007, President Bush signed the "Consolidated Appropriations Act,
2008" [P.L. 110-161], which provides NIH with an appropriation of $29.229 billion,
an increase of $329 million (1.1 percent) over FY 2007. More>> FY
2009 Funding
On February 4, President Bush sent his Fiscal Year (FY) 2009
budget to Congress. The President's budget requests $29.230 billion in discretionary
budget authority for NIH through the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations, which
freezes the agency's budget at the FY 2008 appropriation level. The budget also
assumes $78 million though the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee for the transfer
from the Superfund to the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences
(NIEHS), $150 million in mandatory appropriations for type I diabetes, and $8
million in evaluation funds for the National Library of Medicine (NLM), for a
program level of $29.465 billion, the same as in FY 2008. More>> NIH
Salary Cap
The "Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008" [P.L. 110-161] retains
the cap on salaries on NIH, SAMHSA, and AHRQ extramural grants at the current
Executive Level I rate ($191,300 in 2008). As in previous years, the Administration's
FY 2009 budget proposes to reduce the cap, to Executive Level II ($172,200 in
2008). More>>
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