[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1759 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1759

           To reauthorize the teaching health center program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 21, 2013

  Mr. Sanders (for himself, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Casey, Mr. 
   Durbin, Mr. Udall of New Mexico, and Mr. Heinrich) 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 reauthorize the teaching health center program.

    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 ``Teaching Health Center 
Reauthorization Act''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE TEACHING HEALTH CENTERS PROGRAM.

    Section 340H of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 256h) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (g)--
                    (A) by inserting before the period the following: 
                ``, and not to exceed $800,000,000, for the period of 
                fiscal years 2016 through 2020''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following: ``Any 
                amounts appropriated under this subsection for any of 
                fiscal years 2011 through 2020 and remaining unexpended 
                at the end of the fiscal year involved may be used in 
                subsequent fiscal years to carry out this section.'';
            (2) in subsection (h)(2)--
                    (A) in the paragraph heading, by adding at the end 
                the following: ``; submission to congress''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) Submission to congress.--The Secretary shall 
                annually submit to Congress a report that contains a 
                compilation of the data submitted to the Secretary 
                under paragraph (1) for the year involved.'';
            (3) by redesignating subsections (h) through (j) as 
        subsections (i) through (k), respectively; and
            (4) by inserting after subsection (g), the following:
    ``(h) Limitation.--The Secretary shall establish a minimum per 
resident per year payment amount for funding of all approved teaching 
health center graduate medical education positions under this section 
that shall be not less than the per resident per year payment amount as 
of January 1, 2013, and ensure that not less than such amount is 
provided to all teaching health center graduate medical education 
programs for all approved positions.''.

SEC. 3. TEACHING HEALTH CENTERS DEVELOPMENT GRANTS.

    Section 749A(g) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 293l-
1(g)) is amended by striking ``each fiscal year thereafter'' and 
inserting ``each of fiscal years 2013 through 2020 and each fiscal year 
thereafter''.
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