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To expand the workforce of veterinarians specialized in the care and conservation of wild animals and their ecosystems, and to develop educational programs focused on wildlife and zoological veterinary medicine. [HB-159] [Animals ] [Science ] [Education ] [Veterans ] [Funding ] [Grants ] [Healthcare ]
To expand the workforce of veterinarians specialized in the care and conservation of wild animals and their ecosystems, and to develop educational programs focused on wildlife and zoological veterinary medicine. This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior to award grants to wildlife or veterinary institutions to create additional clinical and research positions for wildlife and zoological veterinarians. Preference must be given to institutions that will create positions in areas of need, including wildlife disease research and training, (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva Referred To The Subcommittee On Water, Power And Oceans. on 02/10/2017

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Expanding Care for Veterans Act [HB-102] [Healthcare ] [Veterans ] [Mental Health ] [Public Health ] [Funding ] [Grants ]
Expanding Care for Veterans Act This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to develop a plan to expand the scope of VA's research and education on, and delivery and integration of, complementary and alternative medicine services. The VA shall carry out, through its Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation, a three-year program to: (1) assess the feasibility and advisability of integrating the delivery of selected complementary and alternative medicine services with other VA health care services for veterans, and (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Ann Kuster Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 01/19/2017

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Leading Infrastructure for Tomorrow's America Act [HB-2479] [Infrastructure ] [Telecommunications ] [Energy ] [Environmental ] [Healthcare ] [Community Development ] [Cybersecurity ] [Public Health ] [Water ] [Technology and Innovation ] [Economic Development ] [Funding ] [Grants ] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ] [Budget and Spending ]
Leading Infrastructure for Tomorrow's America Act This bill authorizes appropriations for the nation's infrastructure, including appropriations for: secure broadband internet access, with a prioritization on expanding broadband access in unserved areas; drinking water improvements, such as appropriations for the drinking water state revolving fund and programs for reducing lead in drinking water; the electric power grid, with a focus on grid modernization, security, resiliency, and efficiency; energy efficiency in buildings, including homes and (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Janice Schakowsky Referred To The Subcommittee On Energy. on 05/22/2018

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GRAD Act of 2017 Grant Residency for Additional Doctors Act of 2017 [HB-2466] [Healthcare ] [Immigration ] [Education ]
GRAD Act of 2017 Grant Residency for Additional Doctors Act of 2017 This bill directs the Secretary of State to: designate a Department of State officer or employee whose sole responsibility during the months of March, April, May, June, and any other period of time determined by the Secretary, shall be to facilitate the expedited review of J-visa applications of aliens applying for U.S. admission to participate in a graduate medical education or training program; and provide appropriate Foreign Service officers with training related to medical graduates (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Donovan Referred To The Subcommittee On Immigration And Border Security. on 06/07/2017

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Action for Dental Health Act of 2017 [HB-2422] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Grants ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Senior Citizens ] [Children and Youth ]
Action for Dental Health Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize oral health promotion and disease prevention programs through FY2022. The Department of Health and Human Services may award grants or enter into contracts to collaborate with state, county, or local public officials and other stakeholders to develop and implement initiatives to: (1) improve oral health education and dental disease prevention; (2) reduce geographic barriers, language barriers, cultural barriers, and other similar barriers in (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Russell Became Public Law No: 115-302. on 12/11/2018

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Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2017 [S.1109] [Healthcare ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Public Health ] [Education ] [Funding ] [Grants ]
Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to extend through FY2022 support for nursing workforce programs and grants. Eligibility for advanced nursing education grants is expanded to include education programs for clinical nurse leaders and all combined registered nurse and graduate degree programs. (Clinical nurse leaders are advanced generalist clinicians who apply research and coordinate care in order to improve outcomes for patients.) To be eligible for these grants, clinical nurse (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Casey Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 05/11/2017

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Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2017 [HB-2392] [Healthcare ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Public Health ] [Funding ] [Grants ]
Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require hospitals to implement and submit to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) a staffing plan that complies with specified minimum nurse-to-patient ratios by unit. Hospitals must post a notice regarding nurse-to-patient ratios in each unit and maintain records of actual ratios for each shift in each unit. HHS must adjust Medicare payments to hospitals to cover additional costs incurred in providing (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/18/2017

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Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2017 [S.1063] [Healthcare ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Public Health ] [Funding ] [Grants ]
Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require hospitals to implement and submit to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) a staffing plan that complies with specified minimum nurse-to-patient ratios by unit. Hospitals must post a notice regarding nurse-to-patient ratios in each unit and maintain records of actual ratios for each shift in each unit. HHS must adjust Medicare payments to hospitals to cover additional costs incurred in providing (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Bernard Sanders Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 05/04/2017

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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to the accreditation of osteopathic residency training programs for purposes of graduate medical education payments under the Medicare program. [HB-2373] [Healthcare ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Social Security ] [Education ]
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to the accreditation of osteopathic residency training programs for purposes of graduate medical education payments under the Medicare program. This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to modify, with respect to graduate medical education (GME) payments under the Medicare program, provisions related to "approved medical residency training programs" by: (1) specifying that such programs include osteopathic community residency training programs; and (2) replacing (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Vern Buchanan Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/18/2017

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MISSION ZERO Act Military Injury Surgical Systems Integrated Operationally Nationwide to Achieve ZERO Preventable Deaths Act [S.1022] [Healthcare ] [Veterans ] [Military ] [Public Health ] [Funding ] [Grants ] [National Security ]
MISSION ZERO Act Military Injury Surgical Systems Integrated Operationally Nationwide to Achieve ZERO Preventable Deaths Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response to award grants to certain trauma centers to enable military trauma care providers and trauma teams to provide trauma care and related acute care at those trauma centers. Funds may be used to train and incorporate military trauma care providers into the trauma center, including expenditures for malpractice (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Cory Booker Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 05/03/2017

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School-Based Respiratory Health Management Act [HB-2285] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Education ] [Children and Youth ]
School-Based Respiratory Health Management Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to revise the conditions under which the Department of Health and Human Services, in making asthma-related grants, gives preference to a state. A preference is given to states that require elementary and secondary schools to have: (1) on the premises during operating hours at least one individual trained in the administration of rescue medications for allergies and reversible lower airway disorders, and (2) an allergies and reversible lower airway disorders (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Valadao Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/05/2017

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Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2017 [HB-2267] [Healthcare ]
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2017

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/05/2017

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Veteran Overmedication Prevention Act of 2017 [S.992] [Veterans ] [Healthcare ] [Mental Health ] [Overdose Prevention ] [Public Health ] [Pharmaceuticals ] [Medicare and Medicaid ]
Veteran Overmedication Prevention Act of 2017 This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review the deaths of all covered veterans who died by suicide during the last five years, regardless of whether information relating to such deaths has been reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A "covered veteran" is any veteran who received VA hospital care or medical services during the five-year period preceding the veteran's death. The (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. John McCain Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. on 05/01/2017

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Ensuring Children's Access to Specialty Care Act of 2017 [S.989] [Healthcare ] [Mental Health ] [Public Health ] [Children and Youth ]
Ensuring Children's Access to Specialty Care Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to include pediatric subspecialties in primary health services for purposes of the National Health Service Corps (NHSC). Psychiatrists who are pediatric subspecialists are included in behavioral and mental health professionals. (These amendments make pediatric subspecialists, including psychiatrists, eligible for the NHSC fellowship program for the delivery of primary health services in health professional shortage areas, the NHSC Scholarship (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Jack Reed Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 04/28/2017

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Veterans Access to Care Act [S.968] [Healthcare ] [Veterans ] [Public Health ]
Veterans Access to Care Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to automatically designate medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as health professional shortage areas. Individuals may not participate in both the VA's Health Professionals Education Assistance Program and the National Health Service Corps scholarship or loan repayment programs. The Department of Health and Human Services, in carrying out the National Health Service Corps Program, must consult with the VA regarding health professional shortage areas (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 04/27/2017

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Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act [HB-2141] [Immigration ] [Healthcare ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Public Health ]
Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 to extend the J-1 visa waiver program (Conrad state 30/medical services in underserved areas) through September 30, 2021. The bill sets forth specified employment protections and contract requirements for alien physicians working in underserved areas, including: (1) a six-month status extension for a physician whose application his been denied by an oversubscribed state and who then agrees to work in an undersubscribed (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Rod Blum Introduced In House on 04/25/2017

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Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Research and Education Act of 2017 [HB-1984] [Healthcare ] [Science ] [Public Health ] [Race and Civil Rights ] [Education ] [Funding ] [Grants ]
Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Research and Education Act of 2017 This bill requires the National Institutes of Health to expand, intensify, and coordinate programs for research on triple-negative breast cancer (the cells of these breast cancers are negative for estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors, and excess HER2 protein). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must develop and disseminate to the public information regarding triple-negative breast cancer, including information on: (1) the incidence and prevalence of triple-negative (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/07/2017

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Opioid PACE Act of 2017 Opioid Preventing Abuse through Continuing Education Act of 2017 [HB-2063] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Overdose Prevention ] [Pharmaceuticals ] [Education ] [Law Enforcement ] [Criminal Justice ]
Opioid PACE Act of 2017 Opioid Preventing Abuse through Continuing Education Act of 2017 This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to require a practitioner (other than a hospital, pharmacy, pharmacist, or veterinarian) to comply with a training requirement, as a condition of obtaining or renewing a registration to prescribe or dispense opioids for the treatment of pain or pain management.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney Referred To The Subcommittee On Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations. on 05/01/2017

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LATTS Act of 2017 Label and Transport Tissues Safely Act of 2017 [HB-2022] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Science ]
LATTS Act of 2017 Label and Transport Tissues Safely Act of 2017 This bill prohibits the sale of human tissue for research or education unless the seller has a non-transplant tissue bank license, each package of tissue is labeled with specified information, and each package is wrapped in the prescribed manner. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) shall establish a process for the approval, suspension, and revocation of non-transplant tissue bank licenses. False labeling of packages of human tissue is prohibited. HHS or any accrediting (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Paul Gosar Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/07/2017

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Access to Frontline Health Care Act of 2017 [HB-2042] [Healthcare ] [Student Loans ] [Public Health ] [Education ]
Access to Frontline Health Care Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish and carry out a Frontline Providers Loan Repayment Program under which HHS makes student loan repayments in exchange for a health professional providing frontline care services for two years in a frontline care scarcity area. Frontline care services include services in the fields of surgery, optometry, physical therapy, pharmacies, public health, dietetics, occupational therapy, pediatrics, (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Loebsack Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/07/2017

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