Health Professions Educational Assistance and Nurse Training Act of 1980

Health Professions Educational Assistance and Nurse Training Act of 1980 - Title I: Health Professions and Allied Health Personnel - Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1980 - Repeals title VII of the Public Health Service Act (Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel) except for current provisions relating to: (1) student loan administration; (2) the National Health Service Corps scholarship program; (3) project grants for family medicine; (4) area health education centers; (5) grants for returning United States students from foreign medical schools; (6) programs for physician assistants; (7) grants for general internal medicine and pediatrics; (8) occupational health training and education centers; (9) grants for family medicine and the general practice of dentistry; (10) educational assistance to the disadvantaged; (11) project grant authority for start-up assistance; and (12) emergency medical service training. Redesignates title VII as "Training of Health Professions and Allied Health Personnel."

Establishes a 21-member National Advisory Council on Health Professions and Allied Health Education to advise the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly Health, Education, and Welfare) with respect to regulations and policy matters arising in the administration of this title.

Requires schools, programs, and training centers receiving support under this title to provide assurances that they do not discriminate on the basis of sex or race in admission to their programs.

Directs the Secretary to establish within the National Center for Health Statistics and the Bureau of Health Manpower jointly, a program to collect data on health personnel, including a uniform health professions data reporting system.

Places restrictions upon the collection, maintenance, and transmittal of individually identifiable personal data under this title.

Creates a program of grants (not to exceed three for any school) to assist schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, or public health which are in serious financial distress to meet the cost of operation, to maintain accreditation, and to carry out appropriate reforms. Provides for advanced grants for such schools which are in serious financial distress and have previously received one or more financial distress grants.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to: (1) new schools of veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, or public health for the purposes of meeting national or regional needs; and (2) public or nonprofit private two-year schools of medicine that intend to become schools accredited to grant the degree of doctor of medicine.

Directs the Secretary to establish a program of federally insured loans and interest subsidies for students in schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, nursing, and public health. Limits such loans to full-time students in good standing for tuition and other reasonable educational and living expenses. Establishes periods during which repayment of principal and interest may be deferred. Sets the maximum annual interest rate at the lesser of: (1) the average 91-day Treasury note rate plus 2.5 percent; or (2) 15 percent. Establishes a student loan insurance and interest payments fund to pay interest subsidies and defaults.

Entitles students who have demonstrated financial need, as determined by their school, to interest subsidies during specified periods sufficient to reduce the effective interest rate to seven percent. Makes such subsidies available for students while in school, for up to three years of residency or advanced training in primary care, for certain periods of practice in primary care or research, and for other specified periods. Limits the amount a student may borrow under this program (generally, $20,000 per year and $80,000 aggregate). Limits the aggregate amount of all new loans which may be insured in any year, starting at $25,000,000 in fiscal year 1981 and increasing through fiscal year 1984.

Establishes a loan forgiveness program to discharge part of the loan liabilities of certain health professions students, graduates, and former students. Creates a student loan forgiveness fund for such purpose. Specifies who may receive loan forgiveness, and sets forth priorities if insufficient funds are available.

Authorizes the Secretary to make special project grants and contracts to health professions schools and other entities. Directs the Secretary to add to the Federal share of the cost of such a project an additional 20 percent if the school or program provides assurances that certain conditions will be met. Specifies the conditions which schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, public health, and allied health must meet to receive such additional amounts.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts to: (1) schools of medicine and osteopathy for programs relating to internal medicine, pediatrics, and family medicine; (2) schools of dentistry for dental residency training programs and traineeships in the general practice of dentistry; (3) schools of medicine and osteopathy for projects relating to clinical instruction in family medicine; (4) schools of medicine, osteopathy, and public health for physician residency programs in preventive medicine; and (5) schools of medicine and osteopathy for physician residency programs in physical medicine and rehabilitation.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts to: (1) schools of medicine and osteopathy for the planning, development, and operation of area health education center programs; (2) schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, and pharmacy for projects providing remote site clinical training; (3) schools of medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry for projects providing support services to physicians or dentists practicing in medically underserved areas; (4) schools of medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry for projects for the training of physician assistants and expanded function dental auxiliaries; (5) health profession, allied health, or nurse training institutions for cooperative interdisciplinary training among the various health professions schools; and (6) schools of allied specified projects.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts to: (1) schools of veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry to improve clinical training by specified projects; (2) schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, and allied health for projects relating to the teaching of health policy and health care economics; (3) schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, allied health, and public health, and graduate programs in health administration for projects relating to continuing education and methods of reducing the total cost of education in such schools; and (4) schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, and pharmacy for projects to expand instruction in specified areas, such as geriatrics, nutrition, occupational and environmental health, and toxicology.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts to schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, public health, and allied health and other public or private nonprofit health or educational entities for the purpose of increasing health education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States to establish or expand State service scholarship programs modeled on the National Health Service Corps Scholarship program. Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress with respect to such programs. Specifies minimum requirements for the expenditure by States of funds under such programs, including the required service commitment and penalties. Sets forth the formula for the allocation of grant money to States for such purpose.

Establishes a grant program for: (1) the renovation, modernization, or conversion of existing facilities for use as training and research facilities at health professions schools; (2) conversion of existing facilities for use as ambulatory primary care teaching facilities for physicians and dentists; and (3) construction of teaching and research facilities at new health professions schools which meet certain criteria. Sets forth administrative provisions with respect to such grants, including limits on the amounts of grants and recapture of payments by the Government under certain circumstances. Creates a program of loan guarantees and interest subsidies to health professions schools for the same types of projects.

Title II: Nurse Training - Nurse Training Act of 1980 - Amends in its entirety title VIII of the Public Health Service Act (Nurse Training).

Establishes a 19-member National Advisory Council on Nurse Training to advise the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly Health, Education, and Welfare) with respect to regulations and policy matters arising in the administration of this title.

Requires schools of nursing and other entities receiving support under this title to provide assurances that they do not discriminate on the basis of sex or race in admission to their programs.

Directs the Secretary to establish within the National Center for Health Statistics and the Bureau of Health Manpower jointly, a program to collect data on nurses and nurse training, including a uniform nursing data reporting system.

Places restrictions upon the collection, maintenance, and transmittal of individually identifiable personal data under this title.

Creates a program of grants (not to exceed three for any school) to assist schools of nursing which are in serious financial distress to meet the cost of operation, to maintain accreditation, and to carry out appropriate reforms. Provides for advanced grants for such schools which are in serious financial distress and have previously received one or more financial distress grants.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to new schools of nursing for the purposes of meeting national and regional needs for nurses.

Provides for the continuation of the Nurse Training Student Loan Fund. Limits the amount a student may borrow to $2,500 per year and $10,000 aggregate. Makes such loans available to full-time or half-time students. Establishes periods during which repayment of principal and interest may be deferred. Sets the interest rate on the loan during repayment at seven percent per year. Continues existing provisions relating to loan forgiveness.

Provides for a capital distribution of the assets of the Nurse Training Student Loan Fund after September 30, 1984.

Authorizes the Secretary to make special project grants and contracts to schools of nursing and other eligible entities. Directs the Secretary to add to the Federal share of the cost of such a project an additional 20 percent if the school provides assurances that certain conditions will be met.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts to: (1) collegiate schools of nursing to develop, expand, or maintain programs for the advanced training of nurses; (2) schools of nursing to develop, expand, or maintain programs to train nurse practitioners; (3) schools of nursing for traineeships for participants in programs of advanced nurse training; (4) schools of nursing and other public or private nonprofit health or educational entities for the purpose of increasing nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds; (5) schools of nursing for projects to expand instruction in specified areas, such as health policy and health care economics, maternal and child health, geriatrics, and nutrition; (6) schools of nursing for projects relating to continuing education and retraining; and (7) schools of nursing to improve nursing education by specified types of projects.

Establishes a grant program for: (1) the renovation, modernization, or conversion of existing facilities for use in the training of nurses; and (2) the construction of teaching facilities at new nursing schools. Sets forth administrative provisions with respect to such grants, including limits on the amounts of grants and recapture of payments by the Government under certain circumstances. Creates a program of loan guarantees and interest subsidies to nursing schools for the same types of projects.

Makes this title effective on October 1, 1980.