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(2) APPLICATION.—A State seeking to partici-
pate in the grant program under this subsection 
shall submit to the Secretary, at such time and in 
such format as the Secretary requires, an applica-
tion that includes such information, provisions, and 
assurances as the Secretary may require. 
(3) MATCHING REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary 
may not make a grant under the grant program un-
less the State involved agrees, with respect to the 
costs to be incurred by the State in carrying out the 
purposes described in this subsection, to make avail-
able non-Federal contributions (in cash or in kind) 
toward such costs in an amount equal to not less 
than 20 percent of Federal funds provided in the 
grant. 
(4) SELECTION.—A State shall be determined 
eligible for the grant program by the Secretary on 
a competitive basis among States with applications 
meeting the requirements of paragraphs (2) and (3). 
In selecting State applications for the grant pro-
gram, the Secretary shall seek to achieve an appro-
priate national balance in the geographic distribu-
tion of grants awarded under the grant program. 
(f) TARGET POPULATION.—In seeking a grant under 
this subsection, a State shall demonstrate how the grant 
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will improve care for individuals with co-occurring behav-
ioral health and physical health conditions, vulnerable pop-
ulations, socially isolated populations, rural populations, 
and other populations who have limited access to qualified 
mental health providers. 
(g) LENGTH OF GRANT PROGRAM.—The grant pro-
gram under this subsection shall be conducted for a period 
of 3 consecutive years. 
(h) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF FINDINGS AND CON-
CLUSIONS.—Subject to Federal privacy protections with 
respect to individually identifiable information, the Sec-
retary shall make the findings and conclusions resulting 
from the grant program under this subsection available 
to the public. 
(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Out of 
any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
there is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this 
subsection, $3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2017 
through 2021. 
(j) REPORTS.— 
(1) REPORTS.—For each fiscal year that grants 
are awarded under this subsection, the Secretary 
shall conduct a study on the results of the grants 
and submit to the Congress a report on such results 
that includes the following: 
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(A) An evaluation of the grant program 
outcomes, including a summary of activities 
carried out with the grant and the results 
achieved through those activities. 
(B) Recommendations on how to improve 
access to mental health services at grantee loca-
tions. 
(C) An assessment of access to mental 
health services under the program. 
(D) An assessment of the impact of the 
demonstration project on the costs of the full 
range of mental health services (including inpa-
tient, emergency and ambulatory care). 
(E) Recommendations on congressional ac-
tion to improve the grant. 
(F) Recommendations to improve training 
of primary care providers. 
(2) REPORT.—Not later than December 31, 
2018, the Secretary shall submit to Congress and 
make available to the public a report on the findings 
of the evaluation under subparagraph (A) and also 
a policy outline on how Congress can expand the 
grant program to the national level. 
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SEC. 505. LIABILITY PROTECTIONS FOR HEALTH CARE 
PROFESSIONAL 
VOLUNTEERS 
AT 
COMMU-
NITY HEALTH CENTERS AND FEDERALLY 
QUALIFIED 
COMMUNITY 
BEHAVIORAL 
HEALTH CLINICS. 
Section 224 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 233) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(q)(1) In this subsection, the term ‘federally quali-
fied community behavioral health clinic’ means— 
‘‘(A) a federally qualified community behavioral 
health clinic with a certification in effect under sec-
tion 223 of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act 
of 2014; or 
‘‘(B) a community mental health center meeting 
the criteria specified in section 1913(c) of this Act. 
‘‘(2) For purposes of this section, a health care pro-
fessional volunteer at an entity described in subsection 
(g)(4) or a federally qualified community behavioral health 
clinic shall, in providing health care services eligible for 
funding under section 330 or subpart I of part B of title 
XIX to an individual, be deemed to be an employee of the 
Public Health Service for a calendar year that begins dur-
ing a fiscal year for which a transfer was made under 
paragraph (5)(C). The preceding sentence is subject to the 
provisions of this subsection. 
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‘‘(3) In providing a health care service to an indi-
vidual, a health care professional shall for purposes of this 
subsection be considered to be a health professional volun-
teer at an entity described in subsection (g)(4) or at a 
federally qualified community behavioral health clinic if 
the following conditions are met: 
‘‘(A) The service is provided to the individual at 
the facilities of an entity described in subsection 
(g)(4), at a federally qualified community behavioral 
health clinic, or through offsite programs or events 
carried out by the center. 
‘‘(B) The center or entity is sponsoring the 
health care professional volunteer pursuant to para-
graph (4)(B). 
‘‘(C) The health care professional does not re-
ceive any compensation for the service from the indi-
vidual or from any third-party payer (including re-
imbursement under any insurance policy or health 
plan, or under any Federal or State health benefits 
program), except that the health care professional 
may receive repayment from the entity described in 
subsection (g)(4) or the center for reasonable ex-
penses incurred by the health care professional in 
the provision of the service to the individual. 
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‘‘(D) Before the service is provided, the health 
care professional or the center or entity described in 
subsection (g)(4) posts a clear and conspicuous no-
tice at the site where the service is provided of the 
extent to which the legal liability of the health care 
professional is limited pursuant to this subsection. 
‘‘(E) At the time the service is provided, the 
health care professional is licensed or certified in ac-
cordance with applicable law regarding the provision 
of the service. 
‘‘(4) Subsection (g) (other than paragraphs (3) and 
(5)) and subsections (h), (i), and (l) apply to a health care 
professional for purposes of this subsection to the same 
extent and in the same manner as such subsections apply 
to an officer, governing board member, employee, or con-
tractor of an entity described in subsection (g)(4), subject 
to paragraph (5) and subject to the following: 
‘‘(A) The first sentence of paragraph (2) ap-
plies in lieu of the first sentence of subsection 
(g)(1)(A). 
‘‘(B) With respect to an entity described in sub-
section (g)(4) or a federally qualified community be-
havioral health clinic, a health care professional is 
not a health professional volunteer at such center 
unless the center sponsors the health care profes-
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‘‘(5)(A) Amounts in the fund established under sub-
section (k)(2) shall be available for transfer under sub-
paragraph (C) for purposes of carrying out this subsection 
for health professional volunteers at entities described in 
subsection (g)(4). 
‘‘(B) Not later than May 1 of each fiscal year, the 
Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary, shall 
submit to the Congress a report providing an estimate of 
the amount of claims (together with related fees and ex-
penses of witnesses) that, by reason of the acts or omis-
sions of health care professional volunteers, will be paid 
pursuant to this subsection during the calendar year that 
begins in the following fiscal year. Subsection (k)(1)(B) 
applies to the estimate under the preceding sentence re-
garding health care professional volunteers to the same 
extent and in the same manner as such subsection applies 
to the estimate under such subsection regarding officers, 
governing board members, employees, and contractors of 
entities described in subsection (g)(4). 
‘‘(C) Not later than December 31 of each fiscal year, 
the Secretary shall transfer from the fund under sub-
section (k)(2) to the appropriate accounts in the Treasury 
an amount equal to the estimate made under subpara-
graph (B) for the calendar year beginning in such fiscal 
year, subject to the extent of amounts in the fund. 
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‘‘(6)(A) This subsection takes effect on October 1, 
2017, except as provided in subparagraph (B). 
‘‘(B) Effective on the date of the enactment of this 
subsection— 
‘‘(i) the Secretary may issue regulations for car-
rying out this subsection, and the Secretary may ac-
cept and consider applications submitted pursuant to 
paragraph (4)(B); and 
‘‘(ii) reports under paragraph (5)(B) may be 
submitted to the Congress.’’. 
SEC. 506. MINORITY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM. 
Title V of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
290aa et seq.), as amended, is further amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘PART K—MINORITY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM 
‘‘SEC. 597. FELLOWSHIPS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall maintain a 
program, to be known as the Minority Fellowship Pro-
gram, under which the Secretary awards fellowships, 
which may include stipends, for the purposes of— 
‘‘(1) increasing behavioral health practitioners’ 
knowledge of issues related to prevention, treatment, 
and recovery support for mental and substance use 
disorders among racial and ethnic minority popu-
lations; 
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‘‘(2) improving the quality of mental and sub-
stance use disorder prevention and treatment deliv-
ered to ethnic minorities; and 
‘‘(3) increasing the number of culturally com-
petent behavioral health professionals who teach, ad-
minister, conduct services research, and provide di-
rect mental health or substance use services to un-
derserved minority populations. 
‘‘(b) TRAINING COVERED.—The fellowships under 
subsection (a) shall be for postbaccalaureate training (in-
cluding for master’s and doctoral degrees) for mental 
health professionals, including in the fields of psychiatry, 
nursing, social work, psychology, marriage and family 
therapy, professional counseling, and substance use and 
addiction counseling. 
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—To 
carry out this section, there are authorized to be appro-
priated $11,000,000 for fiscal year 2017, $14,000,000 for 
fiscal year 2018, $16,000,000 for fiscal year 2019, 
$18,000,000 for fiscal year 2020, and $20,000,000 for fis-
cal year 2021.’’. 
SEC. 507. NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.— 
(1) 
PRIMARY
HEALTH
SERVICES.—Section 
331(a)(3)(D) of the Public Health Service Act (42 
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U.S.C. 254d(a)(3)) is amended by inserting ‘‘(in-
cluding pediatric mental health subspecialty serv-
ices)’’ after ‘‘pediatrics’’. 
(2) BEHAVIORAL AND MENTAL HEALTH PRO-
FESSIONALS.—Clause (i) of section 331(a)(3)(E) of 
the 
Public 
Health 
Service 
Act 
(42 
U.S.C. 
254d(a)(3)(E)) is amended by inserting ‘‘(and pedi-
atric subspecialists thereof)’’ before the period at the 
end. 
(b) ELIGIBILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN LOAN REPAY-
MENT PROGRAM.—Section 338B(b)(1)(B) of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254l–1(b)(1)(B)) is amend-
ed by inserting ‘‘, including any physician child and ado-
lescent psychiatry residency or fellowship training pro-
gram’’ after ‘‘be enrolled in an approved graduate training 
program in medicine, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, be-
havioral and mental health, or other health profession’’. 
SEC. 508. SAMHSA GRANT PROGRAM FOR DEVELOPMENT 
AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CURRICULA FOR 
CONTINUING EDUCATION ON SERIOUS MEN-
TAL ILLNESS. 
Title V of the Public Health Service Act is amended 
by inserting after section 520I (42 U.S.C. 290bb–40) the 
following: 
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‘‘SEC. 520I–1. CURRICULA FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION ON 
SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS. 
‘‘(a) GRANTS.—The Secretary may award grants to 
eligible entities for the development and implementation 
of curricula for providing continuing education and train-
ing to health care professionals on identifying, referring, 
and treating individuals with serious mental illness or seri-
ous emotional disturbance. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible to seek a 
grant under this section, an entity shall be a public or 
nonprofit entity that— 
‘‘(1) provides continuing education or training 
to health care professionals; or 
‘‘(2) applies for the grant in partnership with 
another entity that provides such education and 
training. 
‘‘(c) PREFERENCE.—In awarding grants under this 
section, the Secretary shall give preference to eligible enti-
ties proposing to develop and implement curricula for pro-
viding continuing education and training to— 
‘‘(1) health care professionals in primary care 
specialties; or 
‘‘(2) health care professionals who are required, 
as a condition of State licensure, to participate in 
continuing education or training specific to mental 
health. 
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‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—To 
carry out this section, there are authorized to be appro-
priated $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 
2021.’’. 
SEC. 509. PEER PROFESSIONAL WORKFORCE DEVELOP-
MENT GRANT PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For the purposes described in 
subsection (b), the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices shall award grants to develop and sustain behavioral 
health paraprofessional training and education programs, 
including through tuition support. 
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of grants under this 
section are— 
(1) to increase the number of behavioral health 
paraprofessionals, including trained peers, recovery 
coaches, mental health and addiction specialists, pre-
vention specialists, and pre-masters-level addiction 
counselors; and 
(2) to help communities develop the infrastruc-
ture to train and certify peers as behavioral health 
paraprofessionals. 
(c) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible to receive a 
grant under this section, an entity shall be a community 
college or other entity the Secretary deems appropriate. 
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(d) 
GEOGRAPHIC
DISTRIBUTION.—In 
awarding 
grants under this section, the Secretary shall seek to 
achieve an appropriate national balance in the geographic 
distribution of such awards. 
(e) SPECIAL CONSIDERATION.—In awarding grants 
under this section, the Secretary may give special consid-
eration to proposed and existing programs targeting peer 
professionals serving youth ages 16 to 25. 
(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To carry 
out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated to 
carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2017 through 2021. 
SEC. 510. DEMONSTRATION GRANT PROGRAM TO RECRUIT, 
TRAIN, AND PROFESSIONALLY SUPPORT PSY-
CHIATRIC PHYSICIANS IN INDIAN HEALTH 
PROGRAMS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Sec-
retary’’), in consultation with the Director of the Indian 
Health Service and demonstration programs established 
under section 123 of the Indian Health Care Improvement 
Act (25 U.S.C. 1616p), shall award one 5-year grant to 
one eligible entity to carry out a demonstration program 
(in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Program’’) under which 
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the eligible entity shall carry out the activities described 
in subsection (b). 
(b) ACTIVITIES TO BE CARRIED OUT BY RECIPIENT 
OF GRANT UNDER PROGRAM.—Under the Program, the 
grant recipient shall— 
(1) create a nationally replicable workforce 
model that identifies and incorporates best practices 
for recruiting, training, deploying, and professionally 
supporting Native American and non-Native Amer-
ican psychiatric physicians to be fully integrated into 
medical, mental, and behavioral health systems in 
Indian health programs; 
(2) recruit to participate in the Program Native 
American and non-Native American psychiatric phy-
sicians who demonstrate interest in providing spe-
cialty health care services (as defined in section 
313(a)(3) of the Indian Health Care Improvement 
Act (25 U.S.C. 1638g(a)(3))) and primary care serv-
ices to American Indians and Alaska Natives; 
(3) provide such psychiatric physicians partici-
pating in the Program with not more than 1 year of 
supplemental clinical and cultural competency train-
ing to enable such physicians to provide such spe-
cialty health care services and primary care services 
in Indian health programs; 
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(4) with respect to such psychiatric physicians 
who are participating in the Program and trained 
under paragraph (3), deploy such physicians to prac-
tice specialty care or primary care in Indian health 
programs for a period of not less than 2 years and 
professionally support such physicians for such pe-
riod with respect to practicing such care in such pro-
grams; and 
(5) not later than 1 year after the last day of 
the 5-year period for which the grant is awarded 
under subsection (a), submit to the Secretary and to 
the appropriate committees of Congress a report 
that shall include— 
(A) the workforce model created under 
paragraph (1); 
(B) strategies for disseminating the work-
force model to other entities with the capability 
of adopting it; and 
(C) recommendations for the Secretary and 
Congress with respect to supporting an effective 
and stable psychiatric and mental health work-
force that serves American Indians and Alaska 
Natives. 
(c) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.— 
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(1) REQUIREMENTS.—To be eligible to receive 
the grant under this section, an entity shall— 
(A) submit to the Secretary an application 
at such time, in such manner, and containing 
such information as the Secretary may require; 
(B) be a department of psychiatry within 
a medical school in the United States that is 
accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical 
Education or a public or private nonprofit enti-
ty affiliated with a medical school in the United 
States that is accredited by the Liaison Com-
mittee on Medical Education; and 
(C) have in existence, as of the time of 
submission of the application under subpara-
graph (A), a relationship with Indian health 
programs in at least two States with a dem-
onstrated need for psychiatric physicians and 
provide assurances that the grant will be used 
to serve rural and non-rural American Indian 
and Alaska Native populations in at least two 
States. 
(2) PRIORITY
IN
SELECTING
GRANT
RECIPI-
ENT.—In awarding the grant under this section, the 
Secretary shall give priority to an eligible entity that 
satisfies each of the following: 
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spect to an applicable period, the Secretary 
shall apply the payment adjustment under this 
paragraph based on the methodology specified 
by the Secretary, taking into account the pro-
portion of such additional eligible hospitals, or 
discharges from such hospitals, that are not 
meaningful EHR users for such period.’’; 
(G) in paragraph (5)(A), by inserting 
‘‘and, as applicable, each additional eligible hos-
pital described in paragraph (7)’’ after ‘‘para-
graph (2)’’; 
(H) in paragraph (5)(B), by inserting 
‘‘and additional eligible hospitals, as applica-
ble,’’ after ‘‘eligible hospitals’’; 
(I) in paragraph (6)(B), by inserting ‘‘and 
additional eligible hospitals described in para-
graph (7)’’ after ‘‘paragraph (2)’’; and 
(J) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(7) ADDITIONAL
ELIGIBLE
HOSPITAL
DE-
SCRIBED.—With respect to a qualifying MA organi-
zation, an additional eligible hospital described in 
this paragraph is an additional eligible hospital (as 
defined in section 1886(n)(6)(C)) that is under com-
mon corporate governance with such organization 
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