I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1343 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide additional authorizations 
of appropriations for the health centers program under section 330 
of such Act. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 6, 2007 
Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas (for himself and Mr. PICKERING) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide additional 
authorizations of appropriations for the health centers 
program under section 330 of such Act. 
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 ‘‘Health Centers Re-
newal Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
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(1) Community, migrant, public housing, and 
homeless health centers are vital to thousands of 
communities across the United States. 
(2) There are more than 1,000 such health cen-
ters serving nearly 16,000,000 people at over 5,000 
health delivery sites, located in all 50 States of the 
United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto 
Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and other territories 
of the United States. 
(3) Health centers provide cost-effective, high- 
quality health care to poor and medically under-
served people in the States, the District of Colum-
bia, and the territories, including the working poor, 
the uninsured, and many high-risk and vulnerable 
populations, and have done so for over 40 years. 
(4) Health centers provide care to 1 of every 8 
uninsured Americans, 1 of every 4 Americans in 
poverty, and 1 of every 9 rural Americans. 
(5) Health centers provide primary and preven-
tive care services to more than 700,000 homeless 
persons and more than 725,000 farm workers in the 
United States. 
(6) Health centers are community-oriented and 
patient-focused and tailor their services to fit the 
special needs and priorities of local communities, 
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working together with schools, businesses, churches, 
community organizations, foundations, and State 
and local governments. 
(7) Health centers are built through community 
initiative. 
(8) Health centers encourage citizen participa-
tion and provide jobs for 50,000 community resi-
dents. 
(9) Health centers make health care responsive 
and cost-effective through aggressive outreach, pa-
tient education, translation, and other enabling sup-
port services. 
(10) Health centers help reduce health dispari-
ties, meet escalating health care needs, and provide 
a vital safety net in the health care delivery system 
of the United States. 
(11) Health centers increase the use of preven-
tive health services, including immunizations, pap 
smears, mammograms, and HBa1c tests for diabetes 
screenings. 
(12) Expert studies have demonstrated the im-
pact that these community-owned and patient-con-
trolled primary care delivery systems have achieved 
both in the reduction of traditional access barriers 
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