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119th CONGRESS
2d Session |
To amend the Public Health Service Act to expand the Project ECHO Grant Program, to allow for such program to disseminate knowledge and build capacity to address Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and for other purposes.
Mrs. Capito (for herself, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Moran, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Kim, Mr. Booker, and Ms. Cantwell) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
To amend the Public Health Service Act to expand the Project ECHO Grant Program, to allow for such program to disseminate knowledge and build capacity to address Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “Accelerating Access to Dementia and Alzheimer’s Provider Training Act” or the “AADAPT Act”.
SEC. 2. Expanding capacity for health outcomes.
Section 330N of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c–20) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking “entities” and inserting “entities, including a public or nonprofit private entity,”; and
(2) in subsection (b), by inserting “dementia care,” after “palliative care,”.