Maximizing Outcomes through Better Investments in Lifesaving Equipment for (MOBILE) Health Care Act
Bill: S.958 | Sponsor: Sen. Rosen, Jacky (D-NV)
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Maximizing Outcomes through Better Investments in Lifesaving Equipment for (MOBILE) Health Care Act
This bill allows a health center that currently receives funding through a Health Resources & Services Administration Health Center Program grant to use a New Access Point grant to set up a mobile unit regardless of whether the health center also establishes a permanent health care delivery site.
New Access Point grants help health centers establish new delivery sites to provide comprehensive primary care to medically underserved populations. Under current law, health centers may only use the grants to set up a mobile unit if they also establish a permanent site.

[117th Congress Public Law 204]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 117-204
117th Congress

                                 An Act


 
   To amend the Public Health Service Act to expand the allowable use 
       criteria for new access points grants for community health 
              centers. <<NOTE: Oct. 17, 2022 -  [S. 958]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Maximizing 
Outcomes through Better Investments in Lifesaving Equipment for (MOBILE) 
Health Care Act.>> 
SECTION <<NOTE: 42 USC 201 note.>>  1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Maximizing Outcomes through Better 
Investments in Lifesaving Equipment for (MOBILE) Health Care Act''.
SEC. 2. NEW ACCESS POINTS GRANTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 330(e)(6)(A) of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C. 254b(e)(6)(A)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
                          ``(v) Mobile units.--An existing health center 
                      may be awarded funds under clause (i) to establish 
                      a new delivery site that is a mobile unit, 
                      regardless of whether the applicant additionally 
                      proposes to establish a permanent, full-time site. 
                      In the case of a health center that is not 
                      currently receiving funds under this section, such 
                      health center may be awarded funds under clause 
                      (i) to establish a new delivery site that is a 
                      mobile unit only if such health center uses a 
                      portion of such funds to also establish a 
                      permanent, full-time site.''.

    (b) <<NOTE: 42 USC 254b note.>>  Effective Date.--The amendment made 
by subsection (a) shall take effect on January 1, 2024.

    Approved October 17, 2022.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 958 (H.R. 5141):
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 117-513 (Comm. on Energy and Commerce) accompanying 
H.R. 5141.
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 168 (2022):
            Sept. 6, considered and passed Senate.
            Sept. 28, 29, considered and passed House.

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