[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2629 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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116th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 2629
To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the Public
Health Service Corps.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
October 17, 2019
Mr. Rounds (for himself and Mr. Jones) 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 with respect to the Public
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 ``United States Public Health Service
Modernization Act of 2019''.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.
(a) Commissioned Corps and Ready Reserve Corps.--Section 203 of the
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 204) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``a Ready Reserve
Corps for service in time of national emergency'' and inserting
``, for service in time of a public health or national
emergency, a Ready Reserve Corps''; and
(2) in subsection (c)--
(A) in the heading, by striking ``Research'' and
inserting ``Reserve Corps'';
(B) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``during public
health or national emergencies'' before the period;
(C) in paragraph (2)--
(i) in the matter preceding subparagraph
(A), by inserting ``, consistent with paragraph
(1)'' after ``shall'';
(ii) in subparagraph (C), by inserting
``during such emergencies'' after ``members'';
and
(iii) in subparagraph (D), by inserting ``,
consistent with subparagraph (C)'' before the
period; and
(D) by adding at the end the following:
``(3) Statutory references to reserve.--A reference in any
Federal statute, except in the case of subsection (b), to the
`Reserve Corps' of the Public Health Service or to the
`reserve' of the Public Health Service shall be deemed to be a
reference to the Ready Reserve Corps.''.
(b) Deployment Readiness.--Section 203A(a)(1)(B) of the Public
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 204a(a)(1)(B)) is amended by striking
``Active Reserves'' and inserting ``Ready Reserve Corps''.
(c) Retirement of Commissioned Officers.--Section 211 of the Public
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 212) is amended--
(1) by striking ``(in the case of an officer in the Reserve
Corps)'' each place it appears;
(2) by striking ``the Service'' each place it appears and
inserting ``the Regular Corps'';
(3) in subsection (c)--
(A) in paragraph (1)--
(i) by striking ``or an officer of the
Reserve Corps''; and
(ii) by inserting ``or under section
221(a)(19)'' after ``subsection (a)''; and
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``Regular or
Reserve Corps'' and inserting ``Regular Corps or Ready
Reserve Corps''; and
(4) in subsection (f), by striking ``the Regular or Reserve
Corps of''.
(d) Rights, Privileges, etc. of Officers and Surviving
Beneficiaries.--Section 221 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
213a) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following:
``(19) Chapter 1223, Retired Pay for Non-Regular Service.
``(20) Section 12601, Compensation: Reserve on active duty
accepting from any person.
``(21) Section 12684, Reserves: separation for absence
without authority or sentence to imprisonment.''; and
(2) in subsection (b)--
(A) by striking ``Secretary of Health, Education,
and Welfare or his designee'' and inserting ``Secretary
of Health and Human Services or the designee of such
secretary'';
(B) by striking ``(b) The authority vested'' and
inserting the following:
``(b)(1) The authority vested'';
(C) by striking ``For purposes of'' and inserting
the following:
``(2) For purposes of''; and
(D) by adding at the end the following:
``(3) For purposes of paragraph (19) of subsection (a), the terms
`Military department', `Secretary concerned', and `Armed forces' in
such title 10 shall be deemed to include, respectively, the Department
of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Health and Human
Services, and the Commissioned Corps.''.
(e) Technical Amendments.--Title II of the Public Health Service
Act (42 U.S.C. 202 et seq.) is amended--
(1) in sections 204, 207(c), and 208(a), by striking
``Regular or Reserve Corps'' and inserting ``Regular Corps or
Ready Reserve Corps''; and
(2) in section 205(c), 206(c), 210, and 219, and in
subsections (a), (b), and (d) of section 207, by striking
``Reserve Corps'' each place it appears and inserting ``Ready
Reserve Corps''.
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