[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5508 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5508

  To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a demonstration 
program to provide technical assistance to school-based health centers 
      in order to assist such centers in developing and operating 
  comprehensive computerized systems to maintain data on the patient 
                   populations served by the centers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 19, 2000

Ms. Kilpatrick introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a demonstration 
program to provide technical assistance to school-based health centers 
      in order to assist such centers in developing and operating 
  comprehensive computerized systems to maintain data on the patient 
                   populations served by the centers.

    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 ``School-Based Health Centers 
Technical Assistance Act of 2000''.

SEC. 2. DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO SCHOOL-BASED 
              HEALTH CENTERS REGARDING COMPUTERIZED PATIENT-DATA 
              SYSTEMS.

    Subpart I of part D of title III of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 254b et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following 
section:

``SEC. 330E. DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO SCHOOL-
              BASED HEALTH CENTERS REGARDING COMPUTERIZED PATIENT-DATA 
              SYSTEMS.

    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary, directly or through awards of 
grants or contracts to public or nonprofit private entities, may carry 
out a demonstration program to provide technical assistance to school-
based health centers operated by nonprofit private entities in order to 
assist such centers in developing and operating comprehensive 
computerized systems to maintain the following data on the patient 
populations served by the centers:
            ``(1) Medical data.
            ``(2) Demographic data.
            ``(3) Such additional data as will assist the centers in 
        billing for services provided to patients, including obtaining, 
        as appropriate, reimbursement from third parties (including 
        prepaid health plans, health insurance policies, State 
        compensation programs, and Federal or State health benefits 
        programs).
    ``(b) Authorization of Appropriations.--For the purpose of carrying 
out subsection (a), there are authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2001 through 2005.''.
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