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[S. 2597 Reported in Senate (RS)]

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                                                       Calendar No. 387
115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2597

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 22, 2018

    Mr. Casey (for himself, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Brown, Mr. Blunt, Mr. 
   Whitehouse, Mr. Portman, Ms. Warren, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Murphy, Mr. 
Cornyn, Mr. Reed, Mr. Perdue, Mr. Blumenthal, and Mr. Hatch) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
               on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

                             April 25, 2018

              Reported by Mr. Alexander, without amendment

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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, 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 ``Children's Hospital GME Support 
Reauthorization Act of 2018''.

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 ``and each of fiscal 
        years 2014 through 2018,'' and inserting ``, each of fiscal 
        years 2014 through 2018, and each of fiscal years 2019 through 
        2023'';
            (2) in subsection (b)(3)(D), by inserting ``and the end of 
        fiscal year 2022,'' after ``fiscal year 2018,''; and
            (3) in subsection (f)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)(A)--
                            (i) in clause (iv), by striking ``; and'' 
                        and inserting ``;'';
                            (ii) in clause (v), by striking the period 
                        at the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                            (iii) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(vi) for each of fiscal years 2019 
                        through 2023, $110,000,000.''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``; 
                        and'' and inserting ``;'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (E), by striking the 
                        period at the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                            (iii) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(F) for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023, 
                $220,000,000.''.
                                                       Calendar No. 387

115th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 2597

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 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, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             April 25, 2018

                       Reported without amendment