US Congress Senate Bill 1206 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on June 8 2009 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2009-06-08 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Pediatric Workforce Investment Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to establish and carry out a pediatric specialty loan repayment program under which a qualified physician agrees to be employed full-time for not less than two years in providing pediatric medical subspecialty, surgical specialty, or psychiatric subspecialty care in a shortage area in exchange for repayment of educational loans. Requires an area to be determined to be a shortage area based on: (1) waiting times for patient care; (2) recruitment for unfilled positions; or (3) the ratio of the number of children who reside in the area who are in need of such pediatric subspecialty care to the number of pediatric subspecialists furnishing such services within 100 miles of the area.

Pediatric Workforce Investment Act

Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]

Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]

Sen. Christopher Dodd [D-CT]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-06-08		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
2009-06-08		Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6266-6267)

HB4273 (Related) 2009-12-11 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/1206/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/s1206/BILLS-111s1206is.pdf