[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 958 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 958

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the program of 
    payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate medical 
                          education programs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 12, 2011

Mr. Casey (for himself, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mr. Blunt, Mr. 
  Kerry, Mr. Brown of Massachusetts, Mr. Blumenthal, and Mr. Roberts) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
          Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the program of 
    payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate medical 
                          education programs.

    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 ``Children's Hospital GME Support 
Reauthorization Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. PROGRAM OF PAYMENTS TO CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS THAT OPERATE 
              GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS.

    Section 340E of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 256e) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``2011'' and inserting 
        ``2016'';
            (2) in subsection (b)(3)(D)--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``Report'' and 
                inserting ``Reports''; and
                    (B) in the matter preceding clause (i), by 
                inserting ``and not later than the end of fiscal year 
                2015,'' after ``2011,''; and
            (3) in subsection (f)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)(A)(iv), by striking ``2011'' 
                and inserting ``2016''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2)(D), by striking ``2011'' and 
                inserting ``2016''.
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