[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 60 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 60

   To amend Title VII of the Public Health Service Act to revise and 
  extend certain programs relating to the education of individuals as 
             health professionals, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 4, 1995

  Mr. Inouye introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend Title VII of the Public Health Service Act to revise and 
  extend certain programs relating to the education of individuals as 
             health professionals, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Physical and Occupational Therapy 
Education Assistance Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. PHYSICAL THERAPY AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY.

    Subpart II of part D of title VII of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 294d et seq.) is amended by adding at the end thereof the 
following new section:

``SEC. 768. PHYSICAL THERAPY AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY.

    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary may make grants to, and enter into 
contracts with, programs of physical therapy and occupational therapy 
for the purpose of planning and implementing projects for the 
recruitment, training and retention of physical and occupational 
therapy practitioners in approved programs that provide financial 
assistance in the form of traineeships to students who participate in 
such projects.
    ``(b) Preference in Making Grants.--In making grants under 
subsection (a), the Secretary shall give preference to qualified 
applicants that provide training in either physical or occupational 
therapy programs in rural or urban medically underserved communities, 
or that expand post-baccalaureate programs for the advanced training of 
physical or occupational therapy practitioners.
    ``(c) Peer Review.--Each peer review group established under 
section 798(a) that reviews proposals for grants or contracts under 
subsection (a) shall include no fewer than 2, and no more than 3, 
physical or occupational therapists.
    ``(d) Report to Congress.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall prepare a report 
        that--
                    ``(A) summarizes the applications submitted to the 
                Secretary for grants or contracts under subsection (a);
                    ``(B) specifies the identity of entities receiving 
                the grants or contracts; and
                    ``(C) evaluates the effectiveness of the program 
                based upon the objectives established by the entities 
                receiving the grants or contracts.
            ``(2) Date certain for submission.--Not later than February 
        1, 1999, the Secretary shall complete the report required in 
        paragraph (1) and submit the report to the Committee on 
        Commerce of the House of Representatives, the Committee of 
        Appropriations of the House of Representatives, the Committee 
        of Labor and Human Resources of the Senate, and the Committee 
        of Appropriations of the Senate.
    ``(e) Authorization of Appropriations.--For the purpose of carrying 
out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $3,000,000 
for each of the fiscal years 1996 through 1998.''.
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