Title: National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2017
Policy area: Health

Summary:
National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2017
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to include chiropractic services in primary health services for purposes of the National Health Service Corps.
Doctors of chiropractic are eligible for the fellowship program for the delivery of primary health services in health professional shortage areas, the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program, and the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1378 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1378

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the participation 
    of doctors of chiropractic in the National Health Service Corps 
    scholarship and loan repayment programs, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 7, 2017

  Mr. Harper introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the participation 
    of doctors of chiropractic in the National Health Service Corps 
    scholarship and loan repayment programs, and for other purposes.

    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 ``National Health Service Corps 
Improvement Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. PARTICIPATION OF DOCTORS OF CHIROPRACTIC IN NATIONAL HEALTH 
              SERVICE CORPS.

            (1) Primary health care services.--Section 331 of the 
        Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254d) is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a)(3)(D), by striking ``or 
                mental health,'' and inserting ``chiropractic, or 
                mental health,''; and
                    (B) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ``and 
                physician assistants'' and inserting ``doctors of 
                chiropractic, and physician assistants''.
            (2) Scholarship program.--Section 338A of the Public Health 
        Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254l) is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``and 
                physician assistants'' and inserting ``doctors of 
                chiropractic, and physician assistants''; and
                    (B) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``or other 
                health profession'' and inserting ``chiropractic, or 
                other health profession''.
            (3) Loan repayment program.--
                    (A) Participation.--Section 338B of the Public 
                Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254l-1) is amended--
                            (i) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``and 
                        physician assistants'' and inserting ``doctors 
                        of chiropractic, and physician assistants'';
                            (ii) in subsection (b)(1)(A), by striking 
                        ``or another health profession'' and inserting 
                        ``chiropractic, or another health profession''; 
                        and
                            (iii) in subsections (b)(1)(B) and 
                        (b)(1)(C)(ii), by striking the term ``or other 
                        health profession'' each place such term 
                        appears and inserting ``chiropractic, or other 
                        health profession''.
                    (B) Period of obligated service.--Clauses (ii) and 
                (iii) of section 338C(b)(5)(C) of the Public Health 
                Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254m(b)(5)(C)) are amended by 
                striking the term ``or other health profession'' each 
                place such term appears and inserting ``chiropractic, 
                or other health profession''.
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