To condition receipt of State funding from the Bureau of Health Workforce on adoption by the State of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-8723
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Yoho, Ted S. [R-FL-3]
Introduced: 2020-10-30
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel

Health programs administration and funding

Health promotion and preventive care

Health technology, devices, supplies

Intergovernmental relations

Internet and video services

Internet, web applications, social media

Licensing and registrations

State and local finance

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2020-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-10-30
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill requires states and physician licensing boards to promote interstate medical practice and interstate telemedicine, respectively. It does this by adding conditions to certain funding managed by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).</p> <p>Specifically, to receive funding from HRSA's Bureau of Health Workforce, states must join the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact within three years. This compact expedites multistate licensing of qualified physicians.</p> <p>Additionally, to receive certain grants to address barriers to telemedicine, physician licensing boards must carry out campaigns to encourage interstate telemedicine use by specialists. The bill also reauthorizes these grants from FY2021-FY2025.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8723 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 30, 2020 Mr. Yoho (for himself, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi , Mr. Tiffany , and Mr. Hagedorn ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To condition receipt of State funding from the Bureau of Health Workforce on adoption by the State of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, and for other purposes.

1. Conditioning receipt of State funding from the Bureau of Health Workforce on adoption by the State of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact In the case of a State that has not, by the date that is 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, joined, through enactment of a State law, the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact facilitating physician interstate licensure, as of the day after such 3-year period, the State shall not be eligible for any funds or assistance administered by the Bureau of Health Workforce of the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services. In the case of a State that becomes ineligible for such funds or assistance pursuant to the previous sentence, if such State after such 3-year date joins, through enactment of a State law, the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may determine such State is no longer ineligible for such funds or assistance pursuant to the previous sentence. 2. Conditioning certain professional licensing board grants on provision of specialty physician public awareness campaign on telemedicine Section 330L of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 254c–18 ) is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following new subsection: (c) Public awareness campaign A grant may not be made under subsection (a) to a professional licensing board that participates in the licensure of physicians unless the professional licensure board provides for a public awareness campaign to encourage specialty physicians to practice telemedicine. ; and (3) in subsection (c), as redesignated by paragraph (1), by striking fiscal years 2002 through 2006 and inserting fiscal years 2021 through 2025 .