Title: Community Health Investment, Modernization, and Excellence Act of 2019
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Community Health Investment, Modernization, and Excellence Act of 2019
This bill reauthorizes for FY2020-FY2024 and makes appropriations for the Community Health Center Fund, which provides enhanced funding for the community health center program and the National Health Service Corps.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 106 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 106

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

                            January 10, 2019

  Mr. Blunt (for himself, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Carper, Mr. 
   Gardner, Mr. Cardin, Ms. Murkowski, Ms. Baldwin, Mrs. Capito, Mr. 
Menendez, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Tester, Ms. Collins, 
 Mr. King, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. Peters, and Mr. Jones) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                                Finance

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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 2019''.

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 2020, $4,200,000,000;
                            ``(ii) for fiscal year 2021, 
                        $4,400,000,000;
                            ``(iii) for fiscal year 2022, 
                        $4,600,000,000;
                            ``(iv) for fiscal year 2023, 
                        $4,800,000,000; and
                            ``(v) for fiscal year 2024, $5,000,000,000.
                    ``(B) For purposes of paragraph (2) of such 
                section--
                            ``(i) $325,000,000 for fiscal year 2020;
                            ``(ii) $340,000,000 for fiscal year 2021;
                            ``(iii) $355,000,000 for fiscal year 2022;
                            ``(iv) $370,000,000 for fiscal year 2023; 
                        and
                            ``(v) $385,000,000 for fiscal year 2024.''; 
                        and
            (2) in subsection (c), by striking ``and fiscal year 2107'' 
        and inserting ``, fiscal year 2020, fiscal year 2021, fiscal 
        year 2022, fiscal year 2023, and fiscal year 2024''.
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