IIB 

114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 2713 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

NOVEMBER 15, 2016 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 

Labor, and Pensions 

AN ACT 

To amend title VIII of the Public Health Service Act to 

extend advanced education nursing grants to support 

clinical nurse specialist programs, 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, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Title VIII Nursing 

3 Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2016’’. 

4 SEC. 2. SUPPORTING CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALISTS. 

5 (a) ADVANCED EDUCATION NURSING GRANTS.—Sec6 tion 811 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 

7 296j) is amended— 

8 (1) in subsection (b), by inserting ‘‘clinical 

9 nurse leaders,’’ before ‘‘or public health nurses’’; 

10 (2) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as 

11 subsections (g) and (h), respectively; and 

12 (3) by inserting after subsection (e) the fol13 lowing new subsection: 

14 ‘‘(f) AUTHORIZED CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST

15 PROGRAMS.—Clinical nurse specialist programs eligible 

16 for support under this section are education programs 

17 that— 

18 ‘‘(1) provide registered nurses with full-time 

19 clinical nurse specialist education; and 

20 ‘‘(2) have as their objective the education of 

21 clinical nurse specialists who will upon completion of 

22 such a program be qualified to effectively provide 

23 care to inpatients and outpatients experiencing acute 

24 and chronic illness.’’. 

25 (b) DEFINITION OF NURSE-MANAGED HEALTH

26 CLINIC.—Section 801 of the Public Health Service Act 


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1 (42 U.S.C. 296) is amended by adding at the end the fol2 lowing: 

3 ‘‘(18) NURSE-MANAGED HEALTH CLINIC.—The 

4 term ‘nurse-managed health clinic’ has the meaning 

5 given to such term in section 330A–1.’’. 

6 (c) NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON NURSE EDU7 CATION AND PRACTICE.—Section 851(b)(1)(A)(iv) of the 

8 Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 297t(b)(1)(A)(iv)) 

9 is amended by striking ‘‘and nurse anesthetists’’ and in10 serting ‘‘nurse anesthetists, and clinical nurse specialists’’. 

11 SEC. 3. REAUTHORIZATION OF FUNDING FOR NURSING 

12 PROGRAMS. 

13 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title VIII of the Public Health 

14 Service Act (42 U.S.C. 296 et seq.) is amended— 

15 (1) in subsection (i)(1) of section 846 (42 

16 U.S.C. 297n; loan repayment and scholarship pro17 grams), by striking ‘‘such sums as may be necessary 

18 for each of fiscal years 2003 through 2007’’ and in19 serting ‘‘$83,135,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 

20 through 2021’’; 

21 (2) in subsection (f) of section 846A (42 U.S.C. 

22 297n–1; nurse faculty loan program), by striking 

23 ‘‘such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal 

24 years 2010 through 2014’’ and inserting 


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1 ‘‘$26,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 

2 2021’’; 

3 (3) in subsection (e) of section 865 (42 U.S.C. 

4 298; comprehensive geriatric education), by striking 

5 ‘‘such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal 

6 years 2010 through 2014’’ and inserting 

7 ‘‘$38,737,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 

8 2021’’; and 

9 (4) in section 871 (42 U.S.C. 298d; funding for 

10 carrying out parts B, C, and D), by striking 

11 ‘‘$338,000,000 for fiscal year 2010, and such sums 

12 as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 

13 2011 through 2016’’ and inserting ‘‘$119,837,000 

14 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021’’. 

15 (b) CONFORMING CHANGES.— 

16 (1) Section 831 of the Public Health Service 

17 Act (42 U.S.C. 296p) is amended— 

18 (A) in subsection (g), by striking ‘‘,,’’ and 

19 inserting ‘‘,’’; and 

20 (B) by striking subsection (h). 


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1 (2) Section 831A of the Public Health Service 

2 Act (42 U.S.C. 296p–1) is amended by striking sub3 section (g). 

Passed the House of Representatives November 14, 

2016. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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