I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2736 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to provide 
comprehensive HIV/AIDS services to racial and ethnic minorities, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 15, 2007 
Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ (for herself, Ms. SOLIS, Mr. SERRANO, and Mr. FORTUN˜O) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on En-
ergy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants 
to provide comprehensive HIV/AIDS services to racial 
and ethnic minorities, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘HIV Emergency Local 
Partnership Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) Since AIDS cases were first reported more 
than 25 years ago, approximately 1.7 million people 
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in the United States have been diagnosed with HIV 
and 500,000 of them have died. 
(2) Racial minorities have been disproportion-
ately affected by this epidemic. Of the 1,200,000 
United States HIV cases reported, there are 
500,000 African-Americans and 200,000 Latinos liv-
ing with the disease. 
(3) It is estimated that 50 percent of all AIDS 
patients are African Americans and 19 percent are 
Latinos. The African-American community is 12 
percent of the general United States population, and 
Latinos are 14 percent of the population. 
(4) Ten States and the Commonwealth of Puer-
to Rico account for 71 percent of the Nation’s AIDS 
cases. 
(5) Within the top 10 States and territories 
with the highest concentration of people living with 
HIV/AIDS, large Latino and African-American pop-
ulations reside in 7 of them: New York, California, 
Florida, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, and Pennsyl-
vania. African Americans comprise large percentages 
of people living with this disease in Georgia, Mary-
land, and the District of Columbia. Latinos comprise 
large percentages of people living with HIV/AIDS in 
Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Puerto Rico. 
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(6) Programs funded through title XXVI of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300ff–11 et 
seq.; as amended by the ‘‘Ryan White HIV/AIDS 
Treatment Modernization Act of 2006’’) are essen-
tial to people who are HIV/AIDS positive, particu-
larly those who are low income or from an ethnic or 
minority community. Although recent changes to 
these programs address the problem of reaching mi-
nority populations in this country, more needs to be 
done as the epidemic continues to impact those com-
munities more severely. 
(7) People who live with HIV/AIDS not only 
need assistance to take care of their immediate 
physical condition, but also require information and 
education about how to address other consequences 
associated with the disease. A holistic approach is 
necessary to address not just the immediate physical 
health of an individual in the community, but also 
to educate on preventing the spread of the disease 
in high-risk neighborhoods. 
(8) Capable non-profit entities are essential to 
providing a comprehensive approach and reaching 
more individuals in their local communities. 
(9) There is an urgent need for providing fund-
ing to entities that not only serve minority popu-
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lations, but also provide services through partner-
ships at the local level in high-risk communities. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to estab-
lish and authorize funding for a pilot grant program with-
in the Minority AIDS Initiative that will encourage quali-
fied community health entities to cooperate with each 
other to provide comprehensive HIV/AIDS services for ra-
cial and ethnic minorities in the local community where 
the entities are located. 
SEC. 3. PRIORITIZING HIV/AIDS SERVICES BY LOCAL ENTI-
TIES TO MINORITIES. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.—Section 2693 of 
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300ff–101) is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘$135,100,000 for fiscal 
year 2008’’ and inserting ‘‘$185,100,000 for 
fiscal year 2008’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘$139,100,000 for fiscal 
year 2009’’ and inserting ‘‘$189,100,000 for 
fiscal year 2009’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) PRIORITIZING HIV/AIDS SERVICES BY LOCAL 
ENTITIES TO MINORITIES.— 
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‘‘(1) RESERVATION.—For carrying out this 
subsection, the Secretary shall, of the amount appro-
priated under subsection (a) for each of fiscal years 
2008 and 2009, reserve not less than $25,000,0000 
and not more than $50,000,000. 
‘‘(2) GRANTS.—In carrying out the purpose de-
scribed in subsection (a)— 
‘‘(A) the Secretary shall award grants to 
eligible entities that are located in a community 
described in paragraph (4)(C) (or are in part-
nership with an entity that is located in a com-
munity described in paragraph (4)(C)) to pro-
vide comprehensive HIV/AIDS services to racial 
and ethnic minorities in such community; and 
‘‘(B) sections 2604(c)(1), 2612(b)(1), and 
2651(c)(1) (requiring the use of at least 75 per-
cent of available funds to provide core medical 
services) shall not apply. 
‘‘(3) REQUIREMENTS.—Comprehensive HIV/ 
AIDS services provided by an eligible entity pursu-
ant to this subsection shall— 
‘‘(A) include not less than 3 types of HIV/ 
AIDS services authorized under part A, B, C, 
or D of this title or section 2692; and 
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