National Health Service Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs Reauthorization Act of 2007

National Health Service Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize appropriations for FY2007-FY2011 for National Health Service Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment programs. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reserve a portion of such funds for scholarships to individuals who are enrolled in a course of study or program that leads to a degree in medicine or osteopathic medicine.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2915 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2915

  To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the National 
     Health Service Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 28, 2007

Mr. Braley of Iowa (for himself, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Emanuel, Mr. Boswell, 
and Mr. Loebsack) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the National 
     Health Service Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Health Service Corps 
Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs Reauthorization Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP 
              AND LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAMS.

    (a) Reauthorization of Appropriations.--Section 338H(a) of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254q(a)) is amended by striking 
``$146,250,000'' and all that follows through the period and inserting 
``$300,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2011.''.
    (b) Scholarships for Medical Students.--Section 338H of such Act is 
further amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Scholarships for Medical Students.--Of the amounts 
appropriated under subsection (a) for a fiscal year, the Secretary 
shall obligate $30,000,000 for contracts for scholarships under this 
subpart to individuals who are accepted for enrollment, or enrolled, in 
a course of study or program described in section 338A(b)(1)(B) that 
leads to a degree in medicine or osteopathic medicine.''.
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