Health Professions and Services Amendments of 1984

Summary

Health Professions and Services Amendments of 1984 - Title I: Programs Under Title VII of the Public Health Service Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations through FY 1986 for the Federal health education assistance loan insurance program. Permits amounts from the student loan fund to be used for any public or other nonprofit school which is located in a State and which offers graduate programs in clinical psychology. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1986 for health professions student loans. Requires that beginning in FY 1984 any agreement entered into with a school for the operation of a student loan fund provide that at least one-half of the Federal contribution in a fiscal year to the school's student loan fund be used to make loans to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1986 for scholarships for students of exceptional financial need and for departments of family medicine. Requires, in making grants to schools with departments of family medicine, that priority be given to an applicant which demonstrates a commitment to making its family medicine program a permanent component of its medical education training program. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1986 for area health education centers. Permits grants to be made to public and nonprofit private schools of public health for projects to develop new programs or expand existing programs in human nutrition, geriatrics, health promotion and disease prevention, alcoholism, and injury due to accidents. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1986 for such grants. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1986 for grants for: (1) physician assistant programs; and (2) general internal medicine and general pediatric programs. Requires, in making such grants, that priority be given to an applicant which demonstrates a commitment to making its general internal medicine and general pediatrics programs permanent components of its medical education training program. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1986 for grants for family medicine and the general practice of dentistry. Requires at least seven percent of the amount appropriated for such grants in any fiscal year to be obligated. Requires priority to be given in making such grants to an applicant which demonstrates a commitment to making its family medicine program a permanent component of its medical education training program. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1986 for health education assistance to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Permits such funds to be used for public and nonprofit private schools which offer graduate programs in clinical psychology. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1986 for grants to health professions schools for conversion and curriculum grants. Permits such grants to be used to maintain and improve schools which provide the first or last two years of education leading to the degree of doctor of medicine. Permits curriculum development grants to allied health profession schools or institutions. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1986 for grants for: (1) advanced financial distress assistance; (2) graduate programs in health administration; (3) traineeships for students in other graduate programs; (4) public health traineeships; and (5) training in preventive medicine. Changes the composition of the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education to require that at least one member be a representative of schools of public health. Title II: Programs under Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations through FY 1988 for grants and contracts for special projects and for advanced nurse training programs. Permits such grants to be used for programs which lead to masters and doctoral degrees and which prepare nurses to serve as nurse educators, administrators, and researchers, or in clinical nurse specialties which require advanced training. Provides for educational grants for nurse midwives. Permits grants to be made to public and nonprofit private entities for projects to demonstrate: (1) improvements in clinical nursing care in institutions; (2) improvements in clinical nursing care in homes, independent nursing practice arrangements, and ambulatory facilities; and (3) programs to encourage nurses to practice in health manpower shortage areas. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1988 for such grants. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1988 for grants to cover costs of traineeships for training of nurse anesthetists. Permits the use of grant funds for traineeships for nurses in masters degree and doctoral degree programs. Title III: National Health Service Corps Program - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations through FY 1988 for the National Health Service Corps program. Requires action to be taken to assure that the conditions of any written agreement concerning National Health Service Corps scholarships are adhered to. Prohibits the removal of an area from the areas determined to be health manpower shortage areas unless it is also determined that such an area does not have a population group which has such a shortage or a facility which has such a shortage. Title IV: Health Maintenance Organizations and Migrant and Community Health Centers - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations through FY 1988 for grants and contracts for feasibility surveys and loan guarantees for planning and for initial development costs. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1988 for health maintenance organizations and migrant and community health centers. Permits such funds to be used for repaying loans made by the Farmer's Home Loan Administration for buildings. Limits the amount of grant funds available to community health centers to enable the centers to plan and develop the provision of health services on a prepaid basis to not more than five percent of the funds appropriated to community health centers.

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Timeline

1. 3 May 1984

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 3 May 1984

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 3 May 1984

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 3 May 1984

   Committee

   For Previous Action See H.R.5559.

   Source: Committee

5. 15 May 1984

   Reported

   Ordered to be Reported (Amended).

   Source: Committee

6. 15 May 1984

   Committee

   Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

   Source: Committee

7. 4 June 1984

   Calendars

   Placed on Union Calendar No: 474.

   Source: Calendars

8. 4 June 1984

   Reported

   Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Report No: 98-817.

   Source: Committee

9. 4 June 1984

   Reported

   Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Report No: 98-817.

   Source: Committee

10. 26 June 1984

    Reported

    Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.536 Reported to House.

    Source: Floor

11. 26 June 1984

    Floor

    Rule Granted Providing an Open Rule with 1 Hour of Debate. Waiver of Points of Order.

    Source: Floor

12. 5 September 1984

    Passed

    Rule Passed House.

    Source: Floor

13. 6 September 1984

    Floor

    Laid on Table in House by Voice Vote.

    Source: Floor

14. 6 September 1984

    Passed

    Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.

    Source: Floor

15. 6 September 1984

    Passed

    Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.

    Source: Floor

16. 6 September 1984

    Passed

    House Agreed to Amendments Adopted by the Committee of the Whole.

    Source: Floor

17. 6 September 1984

    Floor

    Called up by House by Rule.

    Source: Floor

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 6 September 1984

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• Reported to House with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 4 June 1984

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Sponsors

• Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-33] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Sikorski, Gerry E. [D-MN-6] · D · Sponsor
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• related to → A resolution providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 5602) to amend Titles VII and VIII of the Public Health Service Act to extend the programs of assistance for the training of health professions personnel, to revise and extend the National Health Service Corps program under that Act, and to revise and extend the programs of assistance under that Act for health maintenance organizations and migrant and community health centers.
• related to ← Health Professions Training Assistance, Nurse Education, National Health Service Corps, Health Maintenance Organizations, and Primary Health Care Amendments of 1984
• amends ← An amendment to permit individuals who are full time students at health profession schools to leave school to engage in activities directly related to the health care profession for which the student is preparing to return to the school after as much as two years as a part time student and still not have to resume immediate payment on his loan. Previously a one year break in studies required the student to begin to repay his loan.
• amends ← Amendments en bloc to strike the 79 million dollars in funds provided for programs under Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act for the fiscal year ending 9/30/88. The amendment also permits the Secretary to enter into contracts with schools of medicine and osteopathy which previously received federal financial assistance under section 802 of the Health Professionals Educational Assistance Act of 1975, if they meet certain criteria.
• amends ← An amendment to permit the Secretary to make grants to schools of veterinary medicine for 1) the development of curriculum for training in the care of animals used in research, the treatment of animals while being used in research, and the development of alternatives to the use of animals in research, and 2) the provision of such training.
• amends ← An amendment to strike the language of Title V and substitute new language. Title V deals with Health Care Consumer Information.
• amends ← An amendment to prohibit financial assistance to male students under the bill if they have not complied with federal draft regulations. The amendment also requires the Secretary of HHS to conduct a study to see if medical schools are engaged in a pattern or practice of failure to comply with these provisions.
• amends ← An amendment to require the Secretary of HHS to conduct a study of the delivery of inpatient and outpatient health care services to the homeless. The study is to include an evaluation of eligibility requirements which prevent the homeless from receiving health care services and an evaluation of the efficiency of the delivery system of that care. The study's results must be submitted to Congress by 9/30/85 with recommendations for legislation needed to improve that care.
• amends ← An amendment dealing with Plague. The amendment permits the Secretary, acting through the Centers for Disease Control, to make grants to states for the control of plague. The amendment provides $1 million for each of the fiscal years 1985, 1986, and 1987.

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