Washington — The National Science Foundation would receive an additional $830-million for the 2009 fiscal year under a spending bill passed today by a U.S. House of Representatives panel.

The extra funds, approved by the Appropriations subcommittee with authority over the NSF and NASA, among other agencies, would represent a 13.67-percent increase over the 2008 budget of the science foundation. With this proposal, the subcommittee aims to put the agency’s budget back on track to double in seven years, as planned in the America Competes Act.

The NSF is the second-largest source of federal money for academic research, after the National Institutes of Health.

The proposal includes a slightly larger rise — of 15.86 percent — for the NSF’s education and human-resources division, which supports research to improve science education in colleges and schools. That branch of the agency would receive $840-million in 2009, up from $725-million in the current fiscal year.

NASA’s budget would not get a comparable boost. The appropriations subcommittee voted to provide the space agency with $17.8-billion in 2009, from $17.32-billion in 2008. The increase, 2.78 percent, would be spread almost evenly between NASA’s science and aeronautic programs.

The full Appropriations Committee is scheduled to discuss the bill next Thursday. —Maria José Viñas