[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 525 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 525


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 9, 2011

     Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To amend the Public Health Service Act to enhance and increase the 
      number of veterinarians trained in veterinary public health.

    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 ``Veterinary Public Health Amendments 
Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF VETERINARY PUBLIC HEALTH IN CERTAIN PUBLIC HEALTH 
              WORKFORCE PROVISIONS.

    (a) Public Health Workforce Grants.--Subsections (b)(1)(A) and 
(d)(6) of section 765 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 295) 
are amended by inserting ``veterinary public health,'' after 
``preventive medicine,'' each place it appears.
    (b) Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment Program.--
            (1) In general.--Subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section 
        776(b)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 295f-
        1(b)(1)) are amended by striking ``public health or health 
        professions degree or certificate'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``public health (including veterinary public health) 
        or health professions degree or certificate''.
            (2) Technical correction.--Subparagraph (A) of section 
        776(b)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 295f-
        1(b)(1)) is amended by adding ``or'' at the end.
    (c) Definition.--Section 799B of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 295p) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(27) Veterinary public health.--The term `veterinary 
        public health' includes veterinarians engaged in one or more of 
        the following areas to the extent such areas have an impact on 
        human health: biodefense and emergency preparedness, emerging 
        and reemerging infectious diseases, environmental health, 
        ecosystem health, pre- and post-harvest food protection, 
        regulatory medicine, diagnostic laboratory medicine, veterinary 
        pathology, biomedical research, the practice of food animal 
        medicine in rural areas, and government practice.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives March 8, 2011.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.