Title: To condition receipt of State funding from the Bureau of Health Workforce on adoption by the State of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This bill requires states and physician licensing boards to promote interstate medical practice and interstate telemedicine, respectively. It does this by adding conditions to certain funding managed by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
Specifically, to receive funding from HRSA's Bureau of Health Workforce, states must join the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact within three years. This compact expedites multistate licensing of qualified physicians.
Additionally, to receive certain grants to address barriers to telemedicine, physician licensing boards must carry out campaigns to encourage interstate telemedicine use by specialists. The bill also reauthorizes these grants from FY2021-FY2025.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8723 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8723

    To condition receipt of State funding from the Bureau of Health 
Workforce on adoption by the State of the Interstate Medical Licensure 
                    Compact, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 30, 2020

 Mr. Yoho (for himself, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Tiffany, and 
Mr. Hagedorn) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To condition receipt of State funding from the Bureau of Health 
Workforce on adoption by the State of the Interstate Medical Licensure 
                    Compact, 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. CONDITIONING RECEIPT OF STATE FUNDING FROM THE BUREAU OF 
              HEALTH WORKFORCE ON ADOPTION BY THE STATE OF THE 
              INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT.

    In the case of a State that has not, by the date that is 3 years 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, joined, through enactment 
of a State law, the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact facilitating 
physician interstate licensure, as of the day after such 3-year period, 
the State shall not be eligible for any funds or assistance 
administered by the Bureau of Health Workforce of the Health Resources 
and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human 
Services. In the case of a State that becomes ineligible for such funds 
or assistance pursuant to the previous sentence, if such State after 
such 3-year date joins, through enactment of a State law, the 
Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services may determine such State is no longer ineligible for such 
funds or assistance pursuant to the previous sentence.

SEC. 2. CONDITIONING CERTAIN PROFESSIONAL LICENSING BOARD GRANTS ON 
              PROVISION OF SPECIALTY PHYSICIAN PUBLIC AWARENESS 
              CAMPAIGN ON TELEMEDICINE.

    Section 330L of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c-18) 
is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c);
            (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(c) Public Awareness Campaign.--A grant may not be made under 
subsection (a) to a professional licensing board that participates in 
the licensure of physicians unless the professional licensure board 
provides for a public awareness campaign to encourage specialty 
physicians to practice telemedicine.''; and
            (3) in subsection (c), as redesignated by paragraph (1), by 
        striking ``fiscal years 2002 through 2006'' and inserting 
        ``fiscal years 2021 through 2025''.
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