[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2308 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2308

    To extend funding for teaching health centers that operate GME 
  programs, community health centers, and the National Health Service 
                                 Corps.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 13, 2023

  Mr. Cassidy 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 extend funding for teaching health centers that operate GME 
  programs, community health centers, and 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 ``Community Health Care 
Reauthorization Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS, THE NATIONAL HEALTH 
              SERVICE CORPS, AND TEACHING HEALTH CENTERS THAT OPERATE 
              GME PROGRAMS.

    (a) Teaching Health Centers That Operate Graduate Medical Education 
Programs.--Section 340H of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
256h) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(2), by adding at the end the 
        following:
                    ``(C) Addition.--Notwithstanding any provision of 
                this section, for each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025, 
                the Secretary may use any amounts made available in any 
                fiscal year to carry out this section (including 
                amounts recouped under subsection (f)) to make payments 
                described in paragraphs (1)(A) and (1)(B), in addition 
                to the total amount of funds appropriated under 
                subsection (g).''; and
            (2) in subsection (g)--
                    (A) by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows:
            ``(1) In general.--To carry out this section, there are 
        appropriated such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed--
                    ``(A) $230,000,000, for the period of fiscal years 
                2011 through 2015;
                    ``(B) $60,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2016 and 
                2017;
                    ``(C) $126,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 
                through 2023;
                    ``(D) $175,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 
                and 2025;
                    ``(E) $225,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 
                and 2027; and
                    ``(F) $275,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2028 
                and 2029.''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Availability.--The amounts made available under 
        paragraph (1) shall remain available until expended.''.
    (b) Extension for Community Health Centers.--Section 10503(b)(1)(F) 
of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 254b-
2(b)(1)(F)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' before ``$4,000,000,000'' and 
        inserting a comma; and
            (2) by inserting ``, $4,200,000,000 for each of fiscal 
        years 2024 and 2025, and $1,058,630,137 for the period 
        beginning October 1, 2025, and ending December 31, 2025'' 
        before the semicolon.
    (c) Extension for the National Health Service Corps.--Section 
10503(b)(2) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 
U.S.C. 254b-2(b)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (G), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (H), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(I) $350,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 
                and 2025; and
                    ``(J) $88,219,178 for the period beginning October 
                1, 2025, and ending December 31, 2025''.
    (d) Application of Provisions.--Amounts appropriated pursuant to 
the amendments made by this section shall be subject to the 
requirements contained in Public Law 117-328 for funds for programs 
authorized under sections 330 through 340 of the Public Health Service 
Act.
    (e) Conforming Amendment.--Paragraph (4) of section 3014(h) of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking ``and section 
301(d) of division BB of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.'' 
and inserting ``section 301(d) of division BB of the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2021, and section 2(d) of the Community Health Care 
Reauthorization Act''.
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