[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2117 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2117

  To allow participants in the National Health Service Corps to defer 
their obligated service in order to receive training in palliative care 
                               services.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 22, 2023

  Ms. Rosen (for herself and Ms. Murkowski) 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 allow participants in the National Health Service Corps to defer 
their obligated service in order to receive training in palliative care 
                               services.

    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 ``Provider Training in Palliative Care 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFERRAL OF OBLIGATED SERVICES FOR TRAINING IN PALLIATIVE CARE.

    Section 331 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254d) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (j) as subsection (k); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (i) the following:
    ``(j) In carrying out subpart III, the Secretary may issue 
deferrals of the period of obligated service to individuals who have 
entered into a contract for obligated service under the Scholarship 
Program or the Loan Repayment Program and who apply for such a deferral 
in order to receive training in palliative care. The Secretary may 
grant such a deferral to such an individual for a period of up to 1 
year.''.
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