[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5998 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5998

To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize a loan repayment 
 program under which health professionals agree to conduct prevention 
    activities, as employees of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, in 
 consideration of the Federal Government agreeing to make payments on 
  the principal and interest of the educational loans of such health 
                 professionals, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 5, 2018

Ms. Schakowsky introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize a loan repayment 
 program under which health professionals agree to conduct prevention 
    activities, as employees of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, in 
 consideration of the Federal Government agreeing to make payments on 
  the principal and interest of the educational loans of such health 
                 professionals, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Securing Experts to Control, 
Understand, and Respond to Emergencies Act'' or the ``SECURE Act''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVEMENT OF LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM FOR PREVENTION 
              ACTIVITIES.

    Section 317F of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 247b-
7) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1)--
                    (A) by inserting after ``conduct prevention 
                activities'' the following: ``, including rapid 
                response to major health threats,''; and
                    (B) by striking ``$35,000'' and inserting 
                ``$50,000'';
            (2) in subsection (a)(2)(B), by striking ``3 years'' and 
        inserting ``2 years''; and
            (3) in section (c)--
                    (A) by striking ``1994'' and inserting ``2019''; 
                and
                    (B) by striking ``1995 through 2002'' and inserting 
                ``2020 through 2023''.
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