Title: Community Health Investment, Modernization, and Excellence Act of 2017
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Community Health Investment, Modernization, and Excellence Act of 2017
This bill amends the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 to extend through FY2022 and make appropriations for enhanced funding for the community health centers program and the National Health Service Corps.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1899 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1899

To reauthorize and extend funding for community health centers and the 
                     National Health Service Corps.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 28, 2017

  Mr. Blunt (for himself, Ms. Stabenow, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Carper, Mr. 
 Gardner, Mr. Cardin, Ms. Collins, Mrs. McCaskill, Mr. Wicker, and Mr. 
   Manchin) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To reauthorize and extend funding for community health centers and the 
                     National Health Service Corps.

    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 ``Community Health Investment, 
Modernization, and Excellence Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF FUNDING FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS AND NATIONAL 
              HEALTH SERVICE CORPS.

    Section 221 of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 
2015 is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Additional funding.--In addition to amounts 
        appropriated under section 10503(b) of the Patient Protection 
        and Affordable Care Act, there are appropriated to the CHC Fund 
        the following:
                    ``(A) For purposes of paragraph (1) of such 
                section--
                            ``(i) for fiscal year 2018, $3,600,000,000;
                            ``(ii) for fiscal year 2019, 
                        $3,800,000,000;
                            ``(iii) for fiscal year 2020, 
                        $4,000,000,000;
                            ``(iv) for fiscal year 2021, 
                        $4,200,000,000; and
                            ``(v) for fiscal year 2022, $4,400,000,000.
                    ``(B) For purposes of paragraph (2) of such 
                section--
                            ``(i) $310,000,000 for fiscal year 2018;
                            ``(ii) $325,000,000 for fiscal year 2019;
                            ``(iii) $340,000,000 for fiscal year 2020;
                            ``(iv) $355,000,000 for fiscal year 2021; 
                        and
                            ``(v) $370,000,000 for fiscal year 2022.''; 
                        and
            (2) in subsection (c), by striking ``and fiscal year 2107'' 
        and inserting ``, fiscal year 2017, fiscal year 2018, fiscal 
        year 2019, fiscal year 2020, fiscal year 2021, and fiscal year 
        2022''.
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