Title: HOPE Act
Policy area: Social Welfare

Summary:
Health Opportunities to Promote Equity Act or the HOPE Act
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services, when awarding grants to train low-income individuals to work in certain health care occupations, to make certain efforts to ensure the geographic diversity of grant recipients.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4236 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4236

     To guarantee that grants are made under the health profession 
opportunity grant program under section 2008 of the Social Security Act 
   to grantees in each State that is not a territory, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 29, 2021

 Mr. Pascrell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
     To guarantee that grants are made under the health profession 
opportunity grant program under section 2008 of the Social Security Act 
   to grantees in each State that is not a territory, 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 ``Health Opportunities to Promote 
Equity Act'' or the ``HOPE Act''.

SEC. 2. GUARANTEE OF GRANTEES IN EACH STATE AND THE DISTRICT OF 
              COLUMBIA; REPORTS TO THE CONGRESS.

    Section 2008 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397g) is 
amended by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and 
(e), respectively, and by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Guarantee of Grantees in Each State and the District of 
Columbia.--
            ``(1) In general.--For each fiscal year, the Secretary 
        shall award a grant under this section to at least 2 eligible 
        entities in each State that is not a territory, to the extent 
        there are a sufficient number of applications submitted by the 
        entities that meet the requirements applicable with the grant. 
        If, for a fiscal year, there are fewer than 2 such eligible 
        entities in such a State, the Secretary shall include that 
        information in the report required by paragraph (2) that covers 
        the fiscal year.
            ``(2) Reports to the congress.--During each Congress, the 
        Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Ways and Means of 
        the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of 
        the Senate a report on, with respect to the period since the 
        period covered in the most recent prior report submitted under 
        this paragraph--
                    ``(A) the number of applications submitted under 
                each subsection of this section;
                    ``(B) the number of the applications that were 
                approved; and
                    ``(C) a description of how grants were made in any 
                case described in the last sentence of paragraph 
                (1).''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on October 1, 
2021.
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