Public Health Service Technical Amendments of 1986

Summary

Public Health Service Technical Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide for community health centers in frontier areas with not more than six individuals per square mile. States that obligations of individuals under the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program for payments of damages may not released by a discharge in bankruptcy. (Current law allows such a discharge under limited circumstances.) Provides that the ex officio members of the National Cancer Advisory Board shall be nonvoting members. Makes the Director of the Office of Energy Research of the Department of Energy an ex officio member of such board. Requires the Director of the National Cancer Institute to conduct technical and scientific peer review. Includes graduate programs in clinical psychology among those programs eligible for grants and contracts for training projects in geriatrics. Makes the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center in Carville, Louisiana, eligible for payments under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act as long as it meets applicable conditions and requirements. Provides that the Federal medical assistance percentage for care and services provided by the Center shall be 100 percent. Modifies the requirements for group health plans for certain State and local employees with respect to: (1) choice of coverage; (2) continuation coverage; and (3) termination of coverage. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to modify provisions regarding the temporary extension of group health coverage. Amends the Community Economic Development Act of 1981 to allow any local public body which received a Rural Development Loan Fund loan after a specified date to transfer such loan to a nonprofit corporation to serve as an intermediate borrower.

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 3 September 1986

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