I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 959 
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. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 7, 2017 
Mr. JOYCE of Ohio (for himself, Ms. GABBARD, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. RODNEY 
DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. MEEHAN, and Ms. CASTOR of Flor-
ida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce 
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. 
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 2017’’. 
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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)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘R.N./Master’s’’ and in-
serting ‘‘R.N./graduate’’; and 
(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 fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(f) AUTHORIZED
CLINICAL
NURSE
SPECIALIST 
PROGRAMS.—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 
clinical nurse specialists who will upon completion of 
such a program be qualified to effectively provide 
care through the wellness and illness continuum to 
inpatients and outpatients experiencing acute and 
chronic illness.’’. 
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(b) DEFINITION
OF
NURSE-MANAGED
HEALTH 
CLINIC.—Section 801 of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 296) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(18) NURSE-MANAGED HEALTH CLINIC.—The 
term ‘nurse-managed health clinic’ means a nurse- 
practice arrangement, managed by advanced practice 
nurses, that provides primary care or wellness serv-
ices to underserved or vulnerable populations and 
that is associated with a school, college, university or 
department of nursing, federally qualified health 
center, or independent nonprofit health or social 
services agency.’’. 
(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 in-
serting ‘‘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 pro-
grams), by striking ‘‘2007’’ and inserting ‘‘2022’’; 
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(2) in subsection (f) of section 846A (42 U.S.C. 
297n–1; nurse faculty loan program), by striking 
‘‘2014’’ and inserting ‘‘2022’’; 
(3) in subsection (e) of section 865 (42 U.S.C. 
298; comprehensive geriatric education), by striking 
‘‘2014’’ and inserting ‘‘2022’’; and 
(4) in section 871 (42 U.S.C. 298d; funding for 
carrying out parts B and C and section 831)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘2016’’ and inserting 
‘‘2022’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘B, C, and D’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘B and C and section 831’’. 
(b) NURSE EDUCATION, PRACTICE, QUALITY, AND 
RETENTION GRANTS.—Section 831 of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 296p) is amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘AND 
QUALITY’’ and inserting ‘‘QUALITY, AND RETEN-
TION’’; 
(2) in subsection (c)(1)— 
(A) by amending subparagraph (A) to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(A) to promote career advancement for— 
‘‘(i) nursing personnel in a variety of 
training settings, cross-training or spe-
cialty training among diverse population 
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