Title: Maximizing Outcomes through Better Investments in Lifesaving Equipment for (MOBILE) Health Care Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Maximizing Outcomes through Better Investments in Lifesaving Equipment for (MOBILE) Health Care Act
This bill expands and otherwise modifies the allowable uses of New Access Point grant funds. These grants help health centers establish new delivery sites to provide comprehensive primary care to medically underserved populations.
Specifically, health centers may use funds to construct or renovate buildings or to set up mobile medical clinics. In addition, a mobile clinic may qualify for grant funding as a new delivery site regardless of whether it is associated with a permanent, full-time site.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5141 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5141

  To amend the Public Health Service Act to expand the allowable use 
  criteria for new access points grants for community health centers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 31, 2021

Mrs. Lee of Nevada (for herself, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Ruiz, and Ms. Herrera 
   Beutler) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Public Health Service Act to expand the allowable use 
  criteria for new access points grants for community health centers.

    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 ``Maximizing Outcomes through Better 
Investments in Lifesaving Equipment for (MOBILE) Health Care Act''.

SEC. 2. NEW ACCESS POINTS GRANTS.

    Section 330(e)(6)(A) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
254b(e)(6)(A)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(v) Mobile units.--
                                    ``(I) In general.--A mobile unit 
                                may qualify as a new delivery site 
                                under clause (i), regardless of whether 
                                the applicant additionally proposes to 
                                establish a permanent, full-time site.
                                    ``(II) Definition of mobile unit.--
                                In this clause, the term `mobile 
                                unit'--
                                            ``(aa) means a unit that is 
                                        staffed by clinicians working 
                                        for or on behalf of a health 
                                        center to provide medical or 
                                        oral health services at one or 
                                        more locations--

                                                    ``(AA) to a target 
                                                population specified in 
                                                the application for a 
                                                grant under 
                                                subparagraph (A) or (B) 
                                                of paragraph (1); and

                                                    ``(BB) for a total 
                                                of not less than 40 
                                                hours per week; and

                                            ``(bb) may include a 
                                        geographic rotation so long as 
                                        access to medical or oral 
                                        health services through such 
                                        unit for such target population 
                                        is available not less than 2 
                                        times per month for each 
                                        geographic location.
                            ``(vi) Costs for renovation and new 
                        construction.--The costs for which a grant 
                        described in clause (i) is made may include 
                        costs associated with--
                                    ``(I) acquiring, leasing, 
                                expanding, or renovating an existing 
                                building for providing health services 
                                to medically underserved populations;
                                    ``(II) constructing a new building 
                                for such purposes; or
                                    ``(III) acquiring, leasing, 
                                expanding, or renovating mobile medical 
                                equipment or vehicles to establish a 
                                new delivery site for such purposes.
                            ``(vii) Requirements with respect to real 
                        property, equipment, and other capital 
                        assets.--
                                    ``(I) Real property.--A recipient 
                                of a grant described in clause (i) 
                                shall use any real property 
                                constructed, purchased, or 
                                significantly improved with funds 
                                awarded through such grant for the 
                                purposes for which the property was so 
                                constructed, purchased, or 
                                significantly improved for a period of 
                                12 years. At the conclusion of such 
                                period, any Federal interest under this 
                                paragraph in such property shall 
                                expire.
                                    ``(II) Equipment and other capital 
                                assets.--A recipient of a grant 
                                described in clause (i) shall use any 
                                equipment or asset, other than real 
                                property, acquired with funds awarded 
                                through such grant for the purposes for 
                                which the equipment or asset was so 
                                acquired for a period that is the 
                                lesser of the remaining useful life of 
                                the equipment or asset or 6 years. At 
                                the conclusion of such period, any 
                                Federal interest under this paragraph 
                                in such equipment or asset shall 
                                expire.''.
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