Health Professions Reauthorization Act of 1988

Summary

Health Professions Reauthorization Act of 1988 - Title I: Student Assistance - Amends title VII (Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel) to exclude from the definition of "allied health professionals" individuals who have received a degree in social work or an equivalent degree. Sets ceilings on the total principal amount of new loans made and installments paid pursuant to lines of credit to borrowers covered by Federal loan insurance under specified provisions relating to loans to graduate students in health professions schools for FY 1989 through 1991. States that no insurance may be granted for any loan made or installment paid after September 30, 1994. Requires that the total principal amount of Federal loan insurance available in each fiscal year be granted without regard to any apportionment or other similar limitation. Requires interest on federally insured student loans under title VII to be compounded not more frequently than semiannually. (Current law requires the interest to be compounded semiannually.) Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to sell without recourse notes or other evidence of loans received by the United States through assignment by the insured after default. Prohibits a State statute of limitations from barring an action by an insured against a borrower if the action is commenced within six years of default. Removes provisions defining "school of allied health" as used in subpart I (Federal Program of Insured Loans to Graduate Students in Health Professions Schools) of part C of title VII. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an agreement for the establishment and operation of a student loan fund with an institution that has a graduate program in clinical psychology or allied health and that is located in a State. Allows institutions to make loans to students to pursue a course of study leading to a doctoral degree in clinical psychology or a bachelor of science in allied health or an equivalent degree. Requires the Secretary to make specified principal and interest payments on behalf of certain loan recipients who have received such degrees. Requires the Secretary to make the payments for a loan recipient who receives those or other specified degrees and who enters into an agreement with the Secretary to practice his profession as a full time faculty member, without receiving a stipend or fellowship, in certain health professions schools. Prohibits a State statute of limitations from barring an action by a school against a borrower if the action is commenced within six years of the date of default. Authorizes appropriations for making Federal capital contributions into the student loan funds of schools which have established the funds under specified provisions. Requires not less than 30 percent of the amounts appropriated in each fiscal year to be allocated to schools of allied health. Makes all schools which established such funds eligible for reallotment of funds from a student loan fund returned to the Secretary in any fiscal year. (Current law makes schools which established funds during a specified period eligible for reallotment.) Delays the period during which a capital distribution of the balance of the loan fund established by each school is required, changing it from between September 30, 1991, and December 31, 1991, to between September 30, 1994, and December 31, 1994. Amends part C (Student Assistance) of title VII to create a new subpart on traineeships. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to accredited schools of public health to provide traineeships in biostatistics, epidemiology, health administration, health planning, health policy analysis, environmental or occupational health, dietetics and nutrition, preventive medicine or dentistry, or maternal and child health. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Removes a requirement that students be in their first year of study in order to be eligible for certain health professions scholarships for students of exceptional financial need. Sets forth the elements of which the scholarships may consist. (Current law sets forth the same consistency as required rather than allowed.) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Title II: Grants to Improve the Quality of Schools of Public Health - Amends part E (Grants to Improve the Quality of Schools of Public Health) of title VII of the Public Health Service Act to require capitation grants to be made for schools of public health for FY 1989 through 1991. Requires matching non-Federal funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Repeals provisions setting forth eligibility requirements for capitation grants. Title III: Grants and Contracts for Programs and Projects - Amends title VII of the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in making grants for the establishment of departments of family medicine, to give priority to applicants that demonstrate a commitment to coordination of curriculum development and student and resident teaching activities with departments of internal medicine and pediatrics where there is a department within the same school. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Requires the Secretary, under existing provisions relating to contracts with schools of medicine and osteopathy for the planning, development, and operation of area health education center programs, to enter into contracts to establish and support programs that include training of personnel to offer maternal health services and child health services, including oral health screening and treatment, in underserved areas, giving priority to areas along the border between the United States and Mexico, frontier areas, and areas of disproportionately high infant mortality. Revises project eligibility criteria and program requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Requires the Secretary, in making grants and entering into contracts for projects concerning residency training programs in internal medicine or pediatrics, to give priority to applicants that demonstrate a commitment to coordination of curriculum development and resident teaching activities with departments of family medicine where there is a department within the same school. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Requires the Secretary, in making grants and entering into contracts for projects concerning professional training programs in family medicine, to give priority to applicants that demonstrate a commitment to coordination of curriculum development and resident teaching activities with departments of internal medicine and pediatrics where there is a department within the same school. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Revises the list of permissible uses for grants and contracts made under existing provisions to assist individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to undertake education to enter a health profession, including allowing the paying of stipends to students enrolled in certain structured summer academic enrichment programs. Requires all individuals participating in activities supported by a grant to have completed to 10th grade of high school, or the equivalent. Requires certain types of schools receiving a grant to increase, during a period of three years, their first year enrollments of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds by at least 20 percent, subject to exception. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Replaces provisions relating to grants for two-year schools of medicine, interdisciplinary training, and curriculum development with provisions authorizing the Secretary to: (1) make grants to schools that provide the first or last two years of education leading to the degree of doctor of medicine or osteopathy; and (2) make grants and enter into contracts for the development and implementation of model projects in areas such as faculty and curriculum development, and development of new clinical training sites. Requires that priority in making grants and entering into contracts for the model projects be given to schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, public health, chiropractic, allied health, and to graduate programs in health administration and clinical psychology. Requires grant applications to be subject to peer review. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with schools of medicine, osteopathy, and public health for residency training programs in preventive medicine. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with public or nonprofit private entities for the training of physician assistants. Prohibits making grants or contracts unless the recipient has mechanisms for placing graduates. Authorizes appropriations for grants and contracts for two-year schools, faculty and curriculum development, training in preventive medicine, and programs for physician assistants for FY 1989 through 1991. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts with health professions schools for assisting in meeting the costs of the schools of providing projects relating to geriatric training. Requires peer review of applications. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with schools of medicine, schools of osteopathy, teaching hospitals, and graduate medical education programs for traineeships and fellowships to train physicians and dentists who plan to teach geriatric medicine or geriatric dentistry. Authorizes appropriations for costs of geriatric training and for traineeships and fellowships in geriatrics for FY 1989 through 1991. Repeals provisions authorizing the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for the training of physician assistants. Changes the eligibility criteria for grants to health professions schools for minority education to require the applicant to have received a contract under specified provisions relating to advanced financial distress assistance in FY 1987. Title IV: Programs for Personnel in Health Administration and in Allied Health - Amends provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to grants for graduate programs in health administration to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make annual grants to educational entities to support graduate educational programs in health administration, hospital administration, and health planning. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to certain educational entities for traineeships in health administration, hospital administration, or health policy analysis and planning. Authorizes appropriations for grants for graduate programs in health administration and for grants for traineeships in health or hospital administration or health policy analysis and planning for FY 1989 through 1991. Repeals provisions relating to traineeships for students in certain graduate programs, public health traineeships, and training in preventive medicine. Directs the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with eligible entities to assist in meeting the costs of planning, developing, establishing, operating, and evaluating specified types of allied health projects. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with educational entities offering an allied health program to assist students in meeting the costs of entry level education. Requires that 80 percent of the funds available for the grants be used in connection with programs relating to the rehabilitation needs of the elderly population. Exempts from taxation any payment to or on behalf of a participating student of tuition under these provisions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with educational entities to meet the costs of projects: (1) involving doctoral programs for the advanced specialty training of allied health professionals who plan to teach and conduct research; and (2) provide financial assistance in the form of traineeships or fellowships to certain doctoral and postdoctoral students in an allied health discipline. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Replaces provisions relating to educational assistance to disadvantaged individuals in allied health training with provisions directing the Secretary to make grants to, or enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with, and provide technical assistance to, any non-profit entity to establish a uniform allied health professions data reporting system to collect, compile, and analyze data on the allied health professions personnel. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991.

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Timeline

1. 29 March 1988

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 29 March 1988

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 14 April 1988

   Committee

   Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Health and Human Services Department, OMB.

   Source: Committee

4. 28 April 1988

   Committee

   Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Hearings held.

   Source: Committee

5. 14 July 1988

   Reported

   Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

   Source: Committee

6. 26 September 1988

   Calendars

   Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1001.

   Source: Calendars

7. 26 September 1988

   Reported

   Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator Kennedy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 100-552.

   Source: Committee

8. 26 September 1988

   Reported

   Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator Kennedy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 100-552.

   Source: Committee

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 26 September 1988

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 29 March 1988

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Sponsors

• Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Pell, Claiborne [D-RI] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Simon, Paul [D-IL-24] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Durenberger, Dave [R-MN] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Metzenbaum, Howard M. [D-OH] · D · Cosponsor
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