Expanding Teaching Health Centers Act of 2021
Bill: H.R.949 | Sponsor: Rep. Ruiz, Raul (D-CA)
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Expanding Teaching Health Centers Act of 2021
This bill provides funding through FY2023 to the Department of Health and Human Services to establish and expand medical residency training programs at teaching health centers.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for additional 
    funding for teaching health centers graduate medical education.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Expanding Teaching Health Centers 
Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. TEACHING HEALTH CENTERS GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION.

    Section 340H of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 256h) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(k) Additional Funds.--
            ``(1) Authorization and appropriation.--There are 
        authorized to be appropriated, and there are appropriated to 
        the Secretary of Health and Human Services, from funds not 
        otherwise appropriated, $123,100,000 for fiscal year 2021, 
        $76,800,000 for fiscal year 2022, and $108,800,000 for fiscal 
        year 2023, to carry out paragraph (2), to remain available 
        until expended.
            ``(2) Use of funds.--The amounts made available by 
        paragraph (1) shall be available for the following purposes--
                    ``(A) for making payments to qualified teaching 
                health centers under this section based on a per 
                resident amount of not less than $160,000 per resident 
                per year;
                    ``(B) for making payments to new approved graduate 
                medical residency training programs, provided that the 
                number of full-time equivalent residents for which a 
                qualified teaching health center receives payments 
                pursuant to subsection (a)(1)(C) for a fiscal year 
                shall not exceed by more than 6 the number of full-time 
                equivalent residents for which the center received such 
                payments for the preceding fiscal year;
                    ``(C) for making payments associated with the 
                addition of residents at approved graduate medical 
                residency programs;
                    ``(D) for making payments to approved graduate 
                medical residency training programs pursuant to 
                subsection (g)(1) of section 340H of the Public Health 
                Service Act (42 U.S.C. 256h), for the number of 
                residents at a program at a number that is no lower 
                than the highest number of residents in that program 
                for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2018;
                    ``(E) for making payments pursuant to section 
                5508(a) of Public Law 111-148 (42 U.S.C. 293l-1), for 
                teaching health center development grants to new 
                approved graduate medical residency programs; and
                    ``(F) for making grants to qualified teaching 
                health centers to support the improvement, renovation, 
                or modernization of infrastructure at such centers.''.
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