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Ensuring Children's Access to Specialty Care Act of 2016

Introduced: April 12, 2016 See on congress.gov
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Apr 12, 2016
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1913)
Apr 12, 2016
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Ensuring Children’s Access to Specialty Care Act of 2016

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to include pediatric subspecialties in primary health services for purposes of the National Health Service Corps (NHSC). Psychiatrists who are pediatric subspecialists are included in behavioral and mental health professionals. (These amendments make pediatric subspecialists, including psychiatrists, eligible for the NHSC fellowship program for the delivery of primary health services in health professional shortage areas, the NHSC Scholarship Program, and the NHSC Loan Repayment Program.)

“Health professional shortage area” can mean an underserved population of children and adolescents.
What's happening now April 12, 2016

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1913)

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 1859 Related bill Ensuring Children's Access to Specialty Care Act of 2015
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 5
All 5 Democratic 4 Republican 1
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Shaheen, Jeanne
New Hampshire · Nov 30, 2016
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Collins, Susan M.
Maine · Nov 15, 2016
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Gillibrand, Kirsten E.
New York · Sep 6, 2016
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Klobuchar, Amy
Minnesota · Apr 14, 2016
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Reed, Jack
Rhode Island · Apr 12, 2016
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2782: Ensuring Children's Access to Specialty Care Act of 2016. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2782/
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"S. 2782: Ensuring Children's Access to Specialty Care Act of 2016." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2782/.
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S. 2782, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2782/.
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