SECURE Act

Bill: 115-hr-5998
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2018-06-05
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding

Government lending and loan guarantees

Health personnel

Health promotion and preventive care

Medical education

Student aid and college costs
Latest action: action_date: 2018-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-06-05
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Securing Experts to Control, Understand, and Respond to Emergencies Act or the SECURE Act</b></p> <p>This bill reauthorizes through FY2023 and revises the loan repayment program for health professionals under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5998 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 5, 2018 Ms. Schakowsky introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize a loan repayment program under which health professionals agree to conduct prevention activities, as employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, in consideration of the Federal Government agreeing to make payments on the principal and interest of the educational loans of such health professionals, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Securing Experts to Control, Understand, and Respond to Emergencies Act or the SECURE Act . 2. Improvement of loan repayment program for prevention activities Section 317F of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 247b–7) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(1)— (A) by inserting after conduct prevention activities the following: , including rapid response to major health threats, ; and (B) by striking $35,000 and inserting $50,000 ; (2) in subsection (a)(2)(B), by striking 3 years and inserting 2 years ; and (3) in section (c)— (A) by striking 1994 and inserting 2019 ; and (B) by striking 1995 through 2002 and inserting 2020 through 2023 .