HR 6802 · 96th Congress · Health
Health Professions Educational Assistance and Nurse Training Amendments of 1980
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Introduced2
Committee3
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Senate5
EnactedLatest: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.(1980-03-12)
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Health Professions Educational Assistance and Nurse Training Amendments of 1980 - Title I: National Health Service Corps Programs - Amends title III (General Powers and Duties of Public Health Service) of the Public Health Service Act to include in the National Health Service Corps as an individual subject to the personnel system of the Corps and entitled to receive the same income as a civilian employee of the Corps, an individual who is not an employee of the United States and who as a recipient of a National Health Service Corps Scholarship, has been designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to serve in a health manpower shortage area to satisfy such individual's service obligation. Prohibits the Secretary from approving an application to assign such an individual to an entity in a health manpower shortage area if the entity does not have sufficient financial resources to provide the individual with such an income. Permits the Secretary to make a grant to the entity to assure that the individual will receive such an income if, in approving the application, the Secretary determines that the entity does not have the resources to provide such an income. Directs the S…
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