NOVEMBER 14, 2016 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on June 10, 2015] 
A BILL 
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 pur-
poses. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Title VIII Nursing 
Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2016’’. 
SEC. 2. SUPPORTING CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALISTS. 
(a) ADVANCED EDUCATION NURSING GRANTS.—Sec-
tion 811 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 296j) 
is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b), by inserting ‘‘clinical nurse 
leaders,’’ before ‘‘or public health nurses’’; 
(2) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as 
subsections (g) and (h), respectively; and 
(3) by inserting after subsection (e) the following 
new subsection: 
‘‘(f) AUTHORIZED CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST PRO-
GRAMS.—Clinical nurse specialist programs eligible for 
support under this section are education programs that— 
‘‘(1) provide registered nurses with full-time 
clinical nurse specialist education; and 
‘‘(2) have as their objective the education of clin-
ical nurse specialists who will upon completion of 
such a program be qualified to effectively provide care 
to inpatients and outpatients experiencing acute and 
chronic illness.’’. 
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(b) DEFINITION OF NURSE-MANAGED HEALTH CLIN-
IC.—Section 801 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 296) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(18) NURSE-MANAGED
HEALTH
CLINIC.—The 
term ‘nurse-managed health clinic’ has the meaning 
given to such term in section 330A–1.’’. 
(c) NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON NURSE EDU-
CATION AND PRACTICE.—Section 851(b)(1)(A)(iv) of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 297t(b)(1)(A)(iv)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘and nurse anesthetists’’ and inserting 
‘‘nurse anesthetists, and clinical nurse specialists’’. 
SEC. 3. REAUTHORIZATION OF FUNDING FOR NURSING 
PROGRAMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title VIII of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 296 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (i)(1) of section 846 (42 U.S.C. 
297n; loan repayment and scholarship programs), by 
striking ‘‘such sums as may be necessary for each of 
fiscal years 2003 through 2007’’ and inserting 
‘‘$83,135,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 
2021’’; 
(2) in subsection (f) of section 846A (42 U.S.C. 
297n–1; nurse faculty loan program), by striking 
‘‘such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal 
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years 2010 through 2014’’ and inserting ‘‘$26,500,000 
for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021’’; 
(3) in subsection (e) of section 865 (42 U.S.C. 
298; comprehensive geriatric education), by striking 
‘‘such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal 
years 2010 through 2014’’ and inserting ‘‘$38,737,000 
for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021’’; and 
(4) in section 871 (42 U.S.C. 298d; funding for 
carrying out parts B, C, and D), by striking 
‘‘$338,000,000 for fiscal year 2010, and such sums as 
may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2011 
through 2016’’ and inserting ‘‘$119,837,000 for each 
of fiscal years 2017 through 2021’’. 
(b) CONFORMING CHANGES.— 
(1) Section 831 of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 296p) is amended— 
(A) in subsection (g), by striking ‘‘,,’’ and 
inserting ‘‘,’’; and 
(B) by striking subsection (h). 
(2) Section 831A of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C. 296p–1) is amended by striking sub-
section (g). 
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Union Calendar No. 627 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2713 
[Report No. 114–803] 
A BILL 
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. 
NOVEMBER 14, 2016 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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