109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5573
AN ACT 
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 2006’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
(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 over 15,000,000 people at over 3,700 
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, quality 
health care to poor and medically underserved people 
in the States, the District of Columbia, and the ter-
ritories, 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, 
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) Congress established the program as a 
unique public-private partnership, and has continued 
to provide direct funding to community organiza-
tions for the development and operation of health 
centers systems that address pressing local health 
needs and meet national performance standards. 
(10) Federal grants assist participating commu-
nities in finding partners and recruiting doctors and 
other health professionals. 
(11) Federal grants constitute, on average, 24 
percent of the annual budget of such health centers, 
with the remainder provided by State and local gov-
ernments, Medicare, Medicaid, private contributions, 
private insurance, and patient fees. 
(12) Health centers make health care respon-
sive and cost-effective through aggressive outreach, 
patient education, translation, and other enabling 
support services. 
(13) 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. 
(14) Health centers increase the use of preven-
tive health services, including immunizations, pap 
smears, mammograms, and HBa1c tests for diabetes 
screenings. 
(15) 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 
and the elimination of health disparities among their 
patients.
SEC. 3. ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
FOR HEALTH CENTERS PROGRAM OF PUBLIC 
HEALTH SERVICE ACT. 
Paragraph (1) of section 330(r) of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b(r)) is amended to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—For the purpose of car-
rying out this section, in addition to the amounts 
authorized to be appropriated under subsection (d), 
there 
are 
authorized 
to 
be 
appropriated 
$1,963,000,000 
for 
fiscal 
year 
2007, 
$1,999,000,000 
for 
fiscal 
year 
2008, 
$2,015,000,000 
for 
fiscal 
year 
2009, 
$2,041,000,000 
for 
fiscal 
year 
2010, 
and 
$2,041,000,000 for fiscal year 2011.’’.
Passed the House of Representatives June 21, 2006. 
Attest:
Clerk.
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5573
AN ACT 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide 
additional authorizations of appropriations for 
the health centers program under section 330 of 
such Act.