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HR 1707 114th Congress House Health Education programs funding Health care coverage and access Health personnel Health programs administration and funding Medical education Student aid and college costs

Access to Frontline Health Care Act of 2015

Introduced: March 26, 2015 See on congress.gov
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Mar 27, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 26, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Mar 26, 2015
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Access to Frontline Health Care Act of 2015

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish and carry out a Frontline Providers Loan Repayment Program under which HHS makes student loan repayments in exchange for a health professional providing frontline care services for two years in a frontline care scarcity area.

Frontline care services include surgery, optometry, physical therapy, pharmacies, public health, dietetics, occupational therapy, pediatrics, and medical technology.

Frontline care scarcity areas are federal health professional shortage areas and areas, populations, or facilities designated by a state as having a shortage of frontline care services.
What's happening now March 27, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 6
All 6 Democratic 6
D
Lofgren, Zoe
California · Dec 1, 2016
 D
Tonko, Paul
New York · Nov 14, 2016
 D
Luján, Ben Ray
New Mexico · Jun 15, 2016
 D
Gallego, Ruben
Arizona · Mar 15, 2016
 D
Garamendi, John
California · Mar 26, 2015
 D
McCollum, Betty
Minnesota · Mar 26, 2015
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1707: Access to Frontline Health Care Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-1707/
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"H.R. 1707: Access to Frontline Health Care Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-1707/.
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H.R. 1707, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-1707/.
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