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This Act may be cited as the ''National Health Services Corps and
Loan Repayment Programs Renewal Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds the following:
(1) The National Health Service Corps is a vital resource
for underserved communities experiencing shortages of health
professionals.
(2) For over 35 years, National Health Service Corps
clinicians have expanded access to primary and preventive
health care, dental care, mental health, and behavioral health
services in underserved areas of the United States and have
improved health outcomes among underserved populations.
(3) The National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program
provides a predictable supply of clinicians who will pursue
employment in primary care for underserved communities. Upon
completion of their training, National Health Service Corps
scholars become salaried employees of organized systems of care
in such underserved communities.
(4) The National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment
Program helps communities meet their immediate needs for health
professionals by offering to pay off qualifying educational
loans in exchange for 2 years of service in an underserved
community.
(5) A recent report in the Journal of the American Medical
Association found that community health centers are facing 13
percent vacancies for family physician positions and 20.8
percent vacancies for OB-GYN positions. The study cited heavy
reliance on the National Health Service Corps and recommended
expanding the program in order to address those needs.
(6) Critical to the growth of new and existing health
centers is having a sufficient supply of primary care health
professionals to staff them. Currently, health centers rely on
the National Health Service Corps for over 20 percent of their
physician workforce. Yet, just over half of all Corps
placements are made to health centers, even though they are one
of the strongest cords in the health care safety net.
(7) Health facilities in rural areas, including community
health centers and rural health clinics, face primary care
vacancy rates higher than the national average, and are more
heavily reliant on the National Health Service Corps to address
those needs.
(8) The number of new medical residents choosing a primary
care discipline as a medical specialty is declining, and the
National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program and the
National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program provide an
important incentive for students to choose to pursue a career
in primary care.

SEC. 3. NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS.

(a) Funding.--To carry out the programs authorized under sections
331 through 338G of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254d-
254p), there are authorized to be appropriated, and there are
appropriated--
(1) for fiscal year 2008, $131,500,000;
(2) for fiscal year 2009, $175,000,000;
(3) for fiscal year 2010, $200,000,000;
(4) for fiscal year 2011, $225,000,000; and
(5) for fiscal year 2012, $250,000,000.
(b) Assignment of Personnel.--
(1) In general.--Section 333(a)(3) of the Public Health
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254f(a)(3)) is amended to read as
follows:
''(3)(A) In approving applications for assignment of
members of the Corps, the Secretary shall not discriminate
against applications from entities that are not receiving
Federal financial assistance under this Act.
''(B) In approving the applications described in
subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall--
''(i) give preference to applications in which a
nonprofit entity or public entity shall provide a site
to which Corps members may be assigned; and
''(ii) give the highest preference to
applications--
''(I) for entities described in clause (i)
that are federally-qualified health centers as
defined in section 1905(l)(2)(B) of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d(l)(2)(B));
''(II) or entities described in clause (i)
that are rural health clinics; and
''(III) for entities described in clause
(i) that primarily serve health disparity
populations or medically underserved
populations.''.
(2) Priorities in assignment of corps personnel.--Section
333A of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254f-1) is
amended--
(A) in subsection (a)--
(i) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2),
and (3) as paragraphs (2), (3), and (4),
respectively; and
(ii) by inserting before paragraph (2) (as
so redesignated) the following:
''(1) give preference to applications as set forth in
subsection (a)(3) of such section;''; and
(B) by striking ''subsection (a)(1)'' each place
such appears and inserting ''subsection (a)(2)''.
(3) Conforming amendment.--Section 338I(c)(3)(B)(ii) of the
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254q-1(c)(3)(B)(ii)) is
amended by striking ''section 333A(a)(1)'' and inserting
''section 333A(a)(2)''.
(c) Elimination of 6-Year Demonstration Requirement.--Section
332(a)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254e(a)(1)) is
amended by striking ''Not earlier than 6 years'' and all that follows
through ''purposes of this section''.
Student:
National Health Services Corps and Loan Repayment Programs Renewal Act of 2007 - Reauthorizes appropriations for the National Health Service Corps for FY2008-FY2012.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in approving applications for assignment of members of the Corps, to give the highest preference to entities that are federally-qualified health centers, that are rural health clinics, and that primarily serve health disparity populations or medically underserved populations.

Repeals the requirement that federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics demonstate that they meet health professional shortage area requirements every six years after such a center or clinic is designated as having such a shortage.