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104TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION S. 60

To amend Title VII of the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend

certain programs relating to the education of individuals as health professionals, and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

JANUARY 4, 1995

Mr. INOUYE introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred

to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

A BILL

To amend Title VII of the Public Health Service Act to

revise and extend certain programs relating to the education of individuals as health professionals, 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 ‘‘Physical and Occupa5 tional Therapy Education Assistance Act of 1995’’.
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1 SEC. 2. PHYSICAL THERAPY AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY.

2 Subpart II of part D of title VII of the Public Health

3 Service Act (42 U.S.C. 294d et seq.) is amended by adding

4 at the end thereof the following new section:

5 ‘‘SEC. 768. PHYSICAL THERAPY AND OCCUPATIONAL THER6 APY.

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

8 to, and enter into contracts with, programs of physical

9 therapy and occupational therapy for the purpose of plan10 ning and implementing projects for the recruitment, train11 ing and retention of physical and occupational therapy

12 practitioners in approved programs that provide financial

13 assistance in the form of traineeships to students who par14 ticipate in such projects.

15 ‘‘(b) PREFERENCE IN MAKING GRANTS.—In making

16 grants under subsection (a), the Secretary shall give pref17 erence to qualified applicants that provide training in ei18 ther physical or occupational therapy programs in rural

19 or urban medically underserved communities, or that ex20 pand post-baccalaureate programs for the advanced train21 ing of physical or occupational therapy practitioners.

22 ‘‘(c) PEER REVIEW.—Each peer review group estab23 lished under section 798(a) that reviews proposals for

24 grants or contracts under subsection (a) shall include no

25 fewer than 2, and no more than 3, physical or occupational

26 therapists.
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1 ‘‘(d) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—

2 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall pre3 pare a report that—

4 ‘‘(A) summarizes the applications submit5 ted to the Secretary for grants or contracts

6 under subsection (a);

7 ‘‘(B) specifies the identity of entities re8 ceiving the grants or contracts; and

9 ‘‘(C) evaluates the effectiveness of the pro10 gram based upon the objectives established by

11 the entities receiving the grants or contracts.

12 ‘‘(2) DATE CERTAIN FOR SUBMISSION.—Not

13 later than February 1, 1999, the Secretary shall

14 complete the report required in paragraph (1) and

15 submit the report to the Committee on Commerce of

16 the House of Representatives, the Committee of Ap17 propriations of the House of Representatives, the

18 Committee of Labor and Human Resources of the

19 Senate, and the Committee of Appropriations of the

20 Senate.

21 ‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For the

22 purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized

23 to be appropriated $3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years

24 1996 through 1998.’’.

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