[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 193 (Thursday, December 6, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S7365]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL GME SUPPORT REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2018

  Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 387, S. 2597.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (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.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill, 
which had been reported from the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
and Pensions.
  Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be 
considered read a third time and passed and that the motion to 
reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 2597) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 2597

       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.''.

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