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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 726 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide health care practitioners 

in rural areas with training in preventive health care, including both 

physical and mental care, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 15, 2013 

Mr. SCHATZ (for himself and Ms. HIRONO) introduced the following bill; which 

was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 

Labor, and Pensions 

A BILL 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide health 

care practitioners in rural areas with training in preventive health care, including both physical and mental care, 

and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Rural Preventive 

5 Health Care Training Act of 2013’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE TRAINING. 

2 Part D of title VII of the Public Health Service Act 

3 (42 U.S.C. 294 et seq.) is amended by inserting after sec4 tion 754 the following: 

5 ‘‘SEC. 754A. PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE TRAINING. 

6 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may make grants 

7 to, and enter into contracts with, eligible applicants to en8 able such applicants to provide preventive health care 

9 training, in accordance with subsection (c), to health care 

10 practitioners practicing in rural areas. Such training shall, 

11 to the extent practicable, include training in health care 

12 to prevent both physical and mental disorders before the 

13 initial occurrence of such disorders. In carrying out this 

14 subsection, the Secretary shall encourage, but may not re15 quire, the use of interdisciplinary training project applica16 tions. 

17 ‘‘(b) LIMITATION.—To be eligible to receive training 

18 using assistance provided under subsection (a), a health 

19 care practitioner shall be determined by the eligible appli20 cant involved to be practicing, or desiring to practice, in 

21 a rural area. 

22 ‘‘(c) USE OF ASSISTANCE.—Amounts received under 

23 a grant made or contract entered into under this section 

24 shall be used— 

25 ‘‘(1) to provide student stipends to individuals 

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1 tions that service predominantly rural communities, 

2 for the purpose of enabling the individuals to receive 

3 preventive health care training; 

4 ‘‘(2) to increase staff support at rural commu5 nity colleges or other institutions that service pre6 dominantly rural communities to facilitate the provi7 sion of preventive health care training; 

8 ‘‘(3) to provide training in appropriate research 

9 and program evaluation skills in rural communities; 

10 ‘‘(4) to create and implement innovative pro11 grams and curricula with a specific prevention com12 ponent; and 

13 ‘‘(5) for other purposes as the Secretary deter14 mines to be appropriate. 

15 ‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

16 are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 

17 $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2017.’’. 

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