[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1051 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1051

 To include county and municipal correctional facilities among medical 
facilities that qualify for designation as health professional shortage 
        areas for purposes of the National Health Service Corps.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 22, 2015

  Mr. Durbin 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 include county and municipal correctional facilities among medical 
facilities that qualify for designation as health professional shortage 
        areas for purposes of the National Health Service Corps.

    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 ``National Health Service Corps 
Expansion Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. MEDICAL FACILITIES.

    Section 332(a)(2) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
254e(a)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``(including care 
        provided by a city or county health department to inmates of a 
        county or municipal jail)'' after ``county health department''; 
        and
            (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``State correctional 
        institution'' and inserting ``State, county, or municipal 
        correctional institution''.
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