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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4783 
To provide low-income individuals with opportunities to enter and follow 
a career pathway in the health professions, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 20, 2023 
Mr. DAVIS of Illinois introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To provide low-income individuals with opportunities to enter 
and follow a career pathway in the health professions, 
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 section may be cited as the ‘‘Pathways to Health 
Careers Act’’. 
SEC. 2. CAREER PATHWAYS THROUGH HEALTH PROFES-
SION OPPORTUNITY GRANTS. 
Effective October 1, 2023, section 2008 of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397g) is amended to read as 
follows: 
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‘‘SEC. 2008. CAREER PATHWAYS THROUGH HEALTH PRO-
FESSION OPPORTUNITY GRANTS. 
‘‘(a) APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS.—An eligible en-
tity desiring a grant under this section for a project shall 
submit to the Secretary an application for the grant, that 
includes the following: 
‘‘(1) A description of how the applicant will use 
a career pathways approach to train eligible individ-
uals for health professions that pay well or will put 
eligible individuals on a career path to an occupation 
that pays well, under the project. 
‘‘(2) A description of the adult basic education 
and literacy activities, work readiness activities, 
training activities, and case management and career 
coaching services that the applicant will use to assist 
eligible individuals to gain work experience, connec-
tion to employers, and job placement, and a descrip-
tion of the plan for recruiting, hiring, and training 
staff to provide the case management, mentoring, 
and career coaching services, under the project di-
rectly or through local governmental, apprenticeship, 
educational, or charitable institutions. 
‘‘(3) In the case of an application for a grant 
under this section for a demonstration project de-
scribed in subsection (c)(2)(B)(i)(I)— 
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‘‘(A) a demonstration that the State in 
which the demonstration project is to be con-
ducted has in effect policies or laws that permit 
certain allied health and behavioral health care 
credentials to be awarded to people with certain 
arrest or conviction records (which policies or 
laws shall include appeals processes, waivers, 
certificates, and other opportunities to dem-
onstrate rehabilitation to obtain credentials, li-
censure, and approval to work in the proposed 
health careers), and a plan described in the ap-
plication that will use a career pathway to as-
sist participants with such a record in acquiring 
credentials, licensing, and employment in the 
specified careers; 
‘‘(B) a discussion of how the project or fu-
ture strategic hiring decisions will demonstrate 
the experience and expertise of the project in 
working with job seekers who have arrest or 
conviction records or employers with experience 
working with people with arrest or conviction 
records; 
‘‘(C) an identification of promising innova-
tions or best practices that can be used to pro-
vide the training; 
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