Impacts and Outcomes for Health Career Training Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5376 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5376

 To ensure an evidence-based funding approach to study the effects of 
  health profession opportunity grant demonstration projects, and to 
                  evaluate the demonstration projects.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 16, 2025

Mr. Schneider introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure an evidence-based funding approach to study the effects of 
  health profession opportunity grant demonstration projects, and to 
                  evaluate the demonstration projects.

    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 ``Impacts and Outcomes for Health 
Career Training Act''.

SEC. 2. EVIDENCE-BASED FUNDING APPROACH TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF HEALTH 
              PROFESSION OPPORTUNITY GRANT DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS; 
              EVALUATION OF DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.

    Section 2008 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397g) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections 
        (d) and (e), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Study.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall conduct a study of 
        the short-, medium-, and long-term impacts of the demonstration 
        projects for which a grant is made under this section, 
        including the employment and earnings of project participants.
            ``(2) Funding.--The Secretary shall use not less than 4 
        percent of total amount made available to carry out this 
        section for each fiscal year for the study required by 
        paragraph (1), evaluations, and associated staffing, for the 
        purpose of supporting the rigorous evaluation of the 
        demonstration projects, and supporting the continued study of 
        the short-, medium-, and long-term effects of all such 
        projects, including the effectiveness of new or added elements 
        of the demonstration projects.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on October 1, 
2025.
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