‘‘(d) PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS.—The Sec-
retary shall develop and issue public service announce-
ments that advertise and promote medical laboratory per-
sonnel careers, highlight the advantages and rewards of 
medical laboratory personnel careers, and encourage indi-
viduals to enter medical laboratory personnel careers.’’. 
(B) 
AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIA-
TIONS.—Section 757 of the Public Health Serv-
ice Act (42 U.S.C. 294g(a)) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following subsection: 
‘‘(d) ALLIED HEALTH AND OTHER DISCIPLINES.—
For the purpose of carrying out section 755, there are au-
thorized to be appropriated $100,000,000 for fiscal year 
2006, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 
fiscal years 2007 through 2010. Such authorization is in 
addition to the authorizations of appropriations under 
subsection (a) that are available for such purpose.’’. 
(2) OTHER TITLE VII PROGRAMS.—Section 740 
of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 293d) 
is amended—
(A) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-
section (e); and 
(B) by inserting after subsection (c) the 
following subsection:
‘‘(d) MEDICAL LABORATORY PERSONNEL.—For the 
purpose of increasing the number of individuals trained 
as medical laboratory personnel through making awards 
of grants or contracts under sections 737 through 739 for 
appropriate schools of allied health, there are authorized 
to be appropriated, in addition to authorizations of appro-
priations under subsections (a) through (c) that are avail-
able for such purpose, the following: 
‘‘(1) For awards under section 738 to serve as 
members of the faculty of such schools, $332,500 for 
fiscal year 2006, and such sums as may be nec-
essary for each of the fiscal years 2007 through 
2010. 
‘‘(2) For awards under section 739 to such 
schools, $8,200,000 for fiscal year 2006, and such 
sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal 
years 2007 through 2010.’’. 
(3) DEFINITION
OF
MEDICAL
LABORATORY 
PERSONNEL.—Section 799B of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 295p) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(12) The term ‘medical laboratory personnel’ 
means allied health professionals (as defined in 
paragraph (5)) who are medical technologists, 
cytotechnologists, histotechnologists, phlebotomists,
or medical laboratory technicians, or who are in 
other fields that, within the meaning of section 
353(a) (relating to the certification of clinical lab-
oratories), examine materials derived from the 
human body for the purpose of providing informa-
tion for the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of 
any disease or impairment of, or the assessment of 
the health of, human beings.’’. 
SEC. 3. RESPONSE TO SHORTAGE OF MEDICAL LABORA-
TORY PERSONNEL; PROGRAMS OF CENTERS 
FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION. 
Title XV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
300k et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 1509 
the following section: 
‘‘SEC. 1509A. SHORTAGE OF TECHNOLOGISTS FOR LABORA-
TORY ANALYSIS REGARDING SCREENING FOR 
CERVICAL CANCER. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting through 
the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services 
Administration and in collaboration with the Director of 
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall 
make grants to appropriate public and nonprofit private 
entities to provide training to increase the number of 
cytotechnologists who are available with respect to screen-
ing women for cervical cancer.
‘‘(b) FUNDING.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 
for the purpose of carrying out this section, there 
are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for 
fiscal year 2006, and such sums as may be nec-
essary for each of the fiscal years 2007 through 
2010. 
‘‘(2) LIMITATION.—The authorization of appro-
priations established in paragraph (1) is not effec-
tive for a fiscal year unless the amount appropriated 
under section 1510(a) for the fiscal year is equal to 
or greater than $173,928,000.’’. 
SEC. 4. RESPONSE TO SHORTAGE OF MEDICAL LABORA-
TORY PERSONNEL; PROGRAMS OF NATIONAL 
HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE. 
Section 422(c)(3)(C) of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 285b–4(c)(3)(C)) is amended by inserting 
after ‘‘allied health professionals’’ the following: ‘‘, with 
emphasis given in the training of such professionals to the 
training of medical laboratory personnel (as defined in sec-
tion 799B) in medical laboratory disciplines with respect 
to which there are needs for increased numbers of per-
sonnel’’.
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