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<item congress="117" measure-type="hr" measure-number="3320" measure-id="id117hr3320" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2021-05-18" update-date="2021-08-24">
<title>Allied Health Workforce Diversity Act of 2021</title>
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<action-date>2021-05-18</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>Allied Health Workforce Diversity Act of 2021</b></p> <p>This bill allows the Department of Health and Human Services to provide grants to accredited education programs to increase diversity in the physical therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, audiology, and speech-language pathology professions. Grants may be used to provide scholarships or to support recruitment and retention of students from underrepresented groups.</p>]]></summary-text>
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