3.0.0 3737 2023-01-11T13:42:40Z 2023-01-11T13:42:40Z Senate S 2020-05-14 116 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-05-14T18:54:52Z 2020-05-14 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2020-05-14 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001203 Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] Tina Smith D MN N B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ 2020-05-14 True G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. 2020-06-24 False B001267 Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO] Michael Bennet D CO 2020-07-29 False Health Computers and information technology Education programs funding Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Government lending and loan guarantees Health personnel Health programs administration and funding Higher education Income tax exclusion Indian social and development programs Interest, dividends, interest rates Public contracts and procurement State and local government operations Student aid and college costs Health 00 2020-05-14 Introduced in Senate 2021-02-03T17:19:17Z Strengthening the Public Health Workforce Act

This bill reauthorizes through FY2025, and otherwise modifies, the Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment Program (a program that awards student loan repayment to individuals with qualifying degrees who commit to work full-time for a federal, state, tribal, or local public health agency for a period of obligated service). Among other changes, the bill eliminates the option for individuals to complete the service obligation in a federal public health agency and expands the scope of qualifying degrees to include those in statistics, computer science, and programs related to information technology.

In addition, the Department of Health and Human Services may take actions to equitably distribute awards among geographic regions and jurisdictional levels and to ensure that at least 50% of individuals who receive loan repayment awards are not employed in qualifying public health agencies at the time they enter the program.

]]> Strengthening the Public Health Workforce Act Display Title Strengthening the Public Health Workforce Act Short Title(s) as Introduced Strengthening the Public Health Workforce Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to improve the public health workforce loan repayment program. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s3737is/xml/BILLS-116s3737is.xml 2020-05-14 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.