Pediatric Subspecialty and Mental Health Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2013

Pediatric Subspecialty and Mental Health Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Reauthorizes through FY2018 a pediatric specialty educational loan repayment program for health professionals providing pediatric medical subspecialty, pediatric surgical specialty, or child and adolescent mental and behavioral health care in an area with a shortage of the specified pediatric subspecialty that has a sufficient pediatric population to support the subspecialty.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1827 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1827

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend through fiscal year 
2018 the authorization for certain health care workforce loan repayment 
                               programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 6, 2013

Mr. Courtney (for himself, Mr. Tonko, and Mr. McDermott) 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 extend through fiscal year 
2018 the authorization for certain health care workforce 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 ``Pediatric Subspecialty and Mental 
Health Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE LOAN REPAYMENT 
              PROGRAMS THROUGH FISCAL YEAR 2018.

    Section 775(e) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 295f(e)) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking ``2014'' and inserting ``2018''; and
            (2) by striking ``2013'' and inserting ``2018''.
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