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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 958 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to expand the allowable use criteria 

for new access points grants for community health centers. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 24, 2021 

Ms. ROSEN (for herself and Ms. COLLINS) 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 expand the 

allowable use criteria for new access points grants for 

community health centers. 

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 ‘‘Maximizing Outcomes 

5 through Better Investments in Lifesaving Equipment for 

6 (MOBILE) Health Care Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. NEW ACCESS POINTS GRANTS. 

2 Section 330(e)(6)(A) of the Public Health Service 

3 Act (42 U.S.C. 254b(e)(6)(A)) is amended by adding at 

4 the end the following: 

5 ‘‘(v) MOBILE UNITS.— 

6 ‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—A mobile 

7 unit may qualify as a new delivery site 

8 under clause (i), regardless of whether 

9 the applicant additionally proposes to 

10 establish a permanent, full-time site. 

11 ‘‘(II) DEFINITION OF MOBILE

12 UNIT.—In this clause, the term ‘mo13 bile unit’— 

14 ‘‘(aa) means a unit that is 

15 staffed by clinicians working for 

16 or on behalf of a health center to 

17 provide medical or oral health 

18 services at one or more loca19 tions— 

20 ‘‘(AA) to a target popu21 lation specified in the appli22 cation for a grant under 

23 subparagraph (A) or (B) of 

24 paragraph (1); and 


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1 ‘‘(BB) for a total of not 

2 less than 40 hours per week; 

3 and 

4 ‘‘(bb) may include a geo5 graphic rotation so long as access 

6 to medical or oral health services 

7 through such unit for such target 

8 population is available not less 

9 than 2 times per month for each 

10 geographic location. 

11 ‘‘(vi) COSTS FOR RENOVATION AND

12 NEW CONSTRUCTION.—The costs for which 

13 a grant described in clause (i) is made may 

14 include costs associated with— 

15 ‘‘(I) acquiring, leasing, expand16 ing, or renovating an existing building 

17 for providing health services to medi18 cally underserved populations; 

19 ‘‘(II) constructing a new building 

20 for such purposes; or 

21 ‘‘(III) acquiring, leasing, expand22 ing, or renovating mobile medical 

23 equipment or vehicles to establish a 

24 new delivery site for such purposes. 


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1 ‘‘(vii) REQUIREMENTS WITH RESPECT

2 TO REAL PROPERTY, EQUIPMENT, AND

3 OTHER CAPITAL ASSETS.— 

4 ‘‘(I) REAL PROPERTY.—A recipi5 ent of a grant described in clause (i) 

6 shall use any real property con7 structed, purchased, or significantly 

8 improved with funds awarded through 

9 such grant for the purposes for which 

10 the property was so constructed, pur11 chased, or significantly improved for a 

12 period of 12 years. At the conclusion 

13 of such period, any Federal interest 

14 under this paragraph in such property 

15 shall expire. 

16 ‘‘(II) EQUIPMENT AND OTHER

17 CAPITAL ASSETS.—A recipient of a 

18 grant described in clause (i) shall use 

19 any equipment or asset, other than 

20 real property, acquired with funds 

21 awarded through such grant for the 

22 purposes for which the equipment or 

23 asset was so acquired for a period 

24 that is the lesser of the remaining 

25 useful life of the equipment or asset 


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1 or 6 years. At the conclusion of such 

2 period, any Federal interest under 

3 this paragraph in such equipment or 

4 asset shall expire.’’. 

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