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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION S. 230

To amend title VII of the Public Health Service Act to ensure that social

work students or social work schools are eligible for support under

the Health Careers Opportunity Program, the Minority Centers of Excellence Program, and programs of grants for training projects in geriatrics,

to establish a social work training program, and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

JANUARY 27 (legislative day, JANUARY 5), 1993

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

ensure that social work students or social work schools

are eligible for support under the Health Careers Opportunity Program, the Minority Centers of Excellence Program, and programs of grants for training projects in

geriatrics, to establish a social work training program,

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. SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS.

4 (a) SCHOLARSHIPS, GENERALLY.—Section 737(a)(3)

5 of the Public Health Service Act (as amended by the
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1 Health Professions Education Extension Amendments of

2 1992) is amended by striking ‘‘offering graduate programs

3 in clinical psychology’’ and inserting ‘‘offering graduate

4 programs in clinical psychology or programs in social

5 work’’.

6 (b) FACULTY POSITIONS.—Section 738(a)(3) of the

7 Public Health Service Act (as amended by the Health Pro8 fessions Education Extension Amendments of 1992) is

9 amended by striking ‘‘offering graduate programs in clini10 cal psychology’’ and inserting ‘‘offering graduate pro11 grams in clinical psychology or programs in social work’’.

12 (c) HEALTH PROFESSIONS SCHOOL.—Section

13 739(h)(1)(A) of the Public Health Service Act (as amend14 ed by the Health Professions Education Extension

15 Amendments of 1992) is amended by striking ‘‘or a school

16 of pharmacy’’ and inserting ‘‘a school of pharmacy, or a

17 school offering programs in social work’’.

18 SEC. 2. GERIATRICS TRAINING PROJECTS.

19 Section 777(b)(1) of the Public Health Service Act

20 (as amended by the Health Professions Education Exten21 sion Amendments of 1992) is amended by inserting

22 ‘‘schools offering degrees in social work,’’ after ‘‘teaching

23 hospitals,’’.
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1 SEC. 3. SOCIAL WORK TRAINING PROGRAM.

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

3 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new

4 section:

5 ‘‘SEC. 779. SOCIAL WORK TRAINING PROGRAM.

6 ‘‘(a) TRAINING GENERALLY.—The Secretary may

7 make grants to, or enter into contracts with, any public

8 or nonprofit private hospital, school offering programs in

9 social work, or to or with a public or private nonprofit

10 entity (which the Secretary has determined is capable of

11 carrying out such grant or contract)—

12 ‘‘(1) to plan, develop, and operate, or partici13 pate in, an approved social work training program

14 (including an approved residency or internship pro15 gram) for students, interns, residents, or practicing

16 physicians;

17 ‘‘(2) to provide financial assistance (in the form

18 of traineeships and fellowships) to students, interns,

19 residents, practicing physicians, or other individuals,

20 who are in need thereof, who are participants in any

21 such program, and who plan to specialize or work in

22 the practice of social work;

23 ‘‘(3) to plan, develop, and operate a program

24 for the training of individuals who plan to teach in

25 social work training programs; and
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1 ‘‘(4) to provide financial assistance (in the form

2 of traineeships and fellowships) to individuals who

3 are participants in any such program and who plan

4 to teach in a social work training program.

5 ‘‘(b) ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS.—

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

7 grants to or enter into contracts with schools offer8 ing programs in social work to meet the costs of

9 projects to establish, maintain, or improve academic

10 administrative units (which may be departments, di11 visions, or other units) to provide clinical instruction

12 in social work.

13 ‘‘(2) PREFERENCE IN MAKING AWARDS.—In

14 making awards of grants and contracts under para15 graph (1), the Secretary shall give preference to any

16 qualified applicant for such an award that agrees to

17 expend the award for the purpose of—

18 ‘‘(A) establishing an academic administra19 tive unit for programs in social work; or

20 ‘‘(B) substantially expanding the programs

21 of such a unit.

22 ‘‘(c) DURATION OF AWARD.—The period during

23 which payments are made to an entity from an award of

24 a grant or contract under subsection (a) may not exceed

25 5 years. The provision of such payments shall be subject
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1 to annual approval by the Secretary of the payments and

2 subject to the availability of appropriations for the fiscal

3 year involved to make the payments.

4 ‘‘(d) FUNDING.—

5 ‘‘(1) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—

6 For the purpose of carrying out this section, there

7 is authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for

8 each of the fiscal years 1993 through 1995.

9 ‘‘(2) ALLOCATION.—Of the amounts appro10 priated under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year, the

11 Secretary shall make available not less than 20 per12 cent for awards of grants and contracts under sub13 section (b).’’.

14 SEC. 4. CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER SERVICES.

15 Section 1302 of the Public Health Service Act (42

16 U.S.C. 300e–1) is amended—

17 (1) in paragraphs (1) and (2), by inserting

18 ‘‘clinical social worker,’’ after ‘‘psychologist,’’ each

19 place it appears;

20 (2) in paragraph (4)(A), by striking ‘‘and psy21 chologists’’ and inserting ‘‘psychologists, and clinical

22 social workers’’; and

23 (3) in paragraph (5), by inserting ‘‘clinical so24 cial work,’’ after ‘‘psychology,’’.

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