Title: DOC Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Doctors of Community Act or the DOC Act
This bill reauthorizes and provides mandatory funding for graduate medical education programs operated by teaching health centers.
The bill sets out funding levels through FY2033. Funding for FY2034 and beyond equals the preceding fiscal year's amount adjusted for medical inflation.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1958 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1958

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the program of 
   payments to teaching health centers that operate graduate medical 
                          education programs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 7, 2021

  Mrs. Murray 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 amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the program of 
   payments to teaching health centers that operate graduate medical 
                          education programs.

    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 ``Doctors of Community Act'' or the 
``DOC Act''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF PROGRAM OF PAYMENTS TO TEACHING HEALTH 
              CENTERS THAT OPERATE GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS.

    Section 340H(g) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
256H(g)) is amended--
            (1) by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows:
            ``(1) In general.--To carry out this section, there are 
        appropriated, to remain available until expended, such sums as 
        may be necessary, not to exceed--
                    ``(A) $230,000,000, for the period of fiscal years 
                2011 through 2015;
                    ``(B) $60,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2016 and 
                2017;
                    ``(C) $126,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 
                through 2023;
                    ``(D) $554,400,000 for fiscal year 2024;
                    ``(E) $571,200,000 for fiscal year 2025;
                    ``(F) $588,000,000 for fiscal year 2026;
                    ``(G) $604,800,000 for fiscal year 2027;
                    ``(H) $621,600,000 for fiscal year 2028;
                    ``(I) $638,400,000 for fiscal year 2029;
                    ``(J) $655,200,000 for fiscal year 2030;
                    ``(K) $672,000,000 for fiscal year 2031;
                    ``(L) $688,800,000 for fiscal year 2032;
                    ``(M) $729,200,000 for fiscal year 2033; and
                    ``(N) for fiscal year 2034 and each fiscal year 
                thereafter, the dollar amount applicable under this 
                paragraph for the preceding fiscal year, adjusted in 
                accordance with paragraph (3).''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Adjustment for inflation.--For purposes of paragraph 
        (1)(N), the dollar amount applicable under paragraph (1) for 
        fiscal years beginning after fiscal year 2033 shall be equal to 
        the dollar amount applicable for the preceding fiscal year, 
        increased by the percentage increase in the medical care 
        component of the consumer price index for all urban consumers 
        (U.S. city average), as such percentage increase is estimated 
        by the Secretary for the 12-month period ending with March of 
        the previous year.''.
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