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105TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION S. 119

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,

and to establish a social work training program.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

JANUARY 21, 1997

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, and to establish a social work training program.

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 (42 U.S.C. 293a(a)(3))
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1 is amended by striking ‘‘offering graduate programs in

2 clinical psychology’’ and inserting ‘‘offering graduate pro3 grams in clinical psychology, graduate programs in clinical

4 social work, or programs in social work’’.

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

6 Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 293b(a)(3)) is

7 amended by striking ‘‘offering graduate programs in clini8 cal psychology’’ and inserting ‘‘offering graduate pro9 grams in clinical psychology, graduate programs in clinical

10 social work, or programs in social work’’.

11 (c) HEALTH PROFESSIONS SCHOOL.—Section

12 739(h)(1)(A) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.

13 293c(h)(1)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘or a school of

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

15 school offering graduate programs in clinical social work,

16 or programs in social work’’.

17 (d) HEALTH CAREERS OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM.—

18 Section 740(a)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42

19 U.S.C. 293d(a)(1)) is amended by striking ‘‘which offer

20 graduate programs in clinical psychology’’ and inserting

21 ‘‘offering graduate programs in clinical psychology or pro22 grams in social work’’.

23 SEC. 2. GERIATRICS TRAINING PROJECTS.

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

25 (42 U.S.C. 294o(b)(1)) is amended by inserting ‘‘schools
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1 offering degrees in social work,’’ after ‘‘teaching hos2 pitals,’’.

3 SEC. 3. SOCIAL WORK TRAINING PROGRAM.

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

5 (42 U.S.C. 294n et seq.) is amended by adding at the end

6 the following:

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

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

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

10 or nonprofit private hospital, school offering programs in

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

12 entity (which the Secretary has determined is capable of

13 carrying out such grant or contract)—

14 ‘‘(1) to plan, develop, and operate, or partici15 pate in, an approved social work training program

16 (including an approved residency or internship pro17 gram) for students, interns, residents, or practicing

18 physicians;

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

20 of traineeships and fellowships) to students, interns,

21 residents, practicing physicians, or other individuals,

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

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

24 the practice of social work;
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1 ‘‘(3) to plan, develop, and operate a program

2 for the training of individuals who plan to teach in

3 social work training programs; and

4 ‘‘(4) to provide financial assistance (in the form

5 of traineeships and fellowships) to individuals who

6 are participants in any such program and who plan

7 to teach in a social work training program.

8 ‘‘(b) ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS.—

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

10 grants to or enter into contracts with schools offer11 ing programs in social work to meet the costs of

12 projects to establish, maintain, or improve academic

13 administrative units (which may be departments, di14 visions, or other units) to provide clinical instruction

15 in social work.

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

17 making awards of grants and contracts under para18 graph (1), the Secretary shall give preference to any

19 qualified applicant for such an award that agrees to

20 expend the award for the purpose of—

21 ‘‘(A) establishing an academic administra22 tive unit for programs in social work; or

23 ‘‘(B) substantially expanding the programs

24 of such a unit.
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1 ‘‘(c) DURATION OF AWARD.—The period during

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

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

4 5 years. The provision of such payments shall be subject

5 to annual approval by the Secretary of the payments and

6 subject to the availability of appropriations for the fiscal

7 year involved to make the payments.

8 ‘‘(d) FUNDING.—

9 ‘‘(1) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—

10 For the purpose of carrying out this section, there

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

12 each of the fiscal years 1998 through 2000.

13 ‘‘(2) ALLOCATION.—Of the amounts appro14 priated under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year, the

15 Secretary shall make available not less than 20 per16 cent for awards of grants and contracts under sub17 section (b).’’.

18 SEC. 4. CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER SERVICES.

19 Section 1302 of the Public Health Service Act (42

20 U.S.C. 300e–1) is amended—

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

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

23 place it appears;
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1 (2) in paragraph (4)(A), by striking ‘‘and psy2 chologists’’ and inserting ‘‘psychologists, and clinical

3 social workers’’; and

4 (3) in paragraph (5), by inserting ‘‘clinical so5 cial work,’’ after ‘‘psychology,’’.

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