MORE Act

Making Opportunities Reachable for Everyone Act or the MORE Act

This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to give preference to grantees with specified partners, such as state and local government agencies and health care employers, when awarding certain grants to train low-income individuals to work in health care occupations.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3345 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3345

 To require preference to be given to applicants for health profession 
 opportunity grants under section 2008 of the Social Security Act who 
         have certain kinds of business and community partners.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 19, 2019

 Mrs. Murphy introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require preference to be given to applicants for health profession 
 opportunity grants under section 2008 of the Social Security Act who 
         have certain kinds of business and community partners.

    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 ``Making Opportunities Reachable for 
Everyone Act'' or the ``MORE Act''.

SEC. 2. PREFERENCE FOR HEALTH PROFESSION OPPORTUNITY GRANT APPLICANTS 
              WHO HAVE CERTAIN KINDS OF BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY 
              PARTNERS.

    Section 2008 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397g) is 
amended by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and 
(e), respectively, and inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Preference for Grant Applicants Who Have Certain Partners.--
In considering applications for a grant under this section, the 
Secretary shall give preference to applications submitted by applicants 
who have business and community partners in each of the following 
categories:
            ``(1) State and local government agencies and social 
        service providers;
            ``(2) institutions of higher education, and local workforce 
        development boards established under section 107 of the 
        Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act; and
            ``(3) health care employers, labor unions, and labor-
        management partnerships.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on October 1, 
2019.
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