Allied Health Professions Reinvestment Act of 2004
Latest action · Mar 30, 2004 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 23, 2004
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Allied Health Professions Reinvestment Act of 2004 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue public service announcements that advertise and promote the allied health professions, highlight the advantages and rewards of those professions, and encourage individuals to enter those professions.
Allows the Secretary to award grants to: (1) support similar State and local advertising campaigns; (2) improve the education, practice, and retention of allied health professionals through specified activities; and (3) develop and implement programs and initiatives to train and educate allied health professionals in providing geriatric care.
Permits the Secretary to provide scholarships for the cost of tuition in exchange for students agreeing to serve as allied health professionals at health care facilities with critical shortages of such persons for not less than one year for each year of scholarship received.
Allows the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to enter into an agreement with any higher education institution for the establishment and operation of a student loan fund to increase the number of qualified allied health professions faculty.
Directs the Secretary to establish the Council on Health Profession Education in the Health Resources and Service Administration to monitor the status of the allied health professions workforce and make annual reports to Congress.
Cosponsors 21
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 23, 2004 to Nov 16, 2004, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-OH | Ted Strickland | Original | Mar 23, 2004 |
| R-MS | Charles W. "Chip" Pickering | Mar 25, 2004 | |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Mar 25, 2004 | |
| R-TN | William L. Jenkins | Mar 31, 2004 | |
| D-TN | Harold E. Ford Jr. | Apr 2, 2004 | |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Apr 22, 2004 | |
| R-NE | Lee Terry | Apr 22, 2004 | |
| D-KY | Ben Chandler | May 13, 2004 | |
| R-AL | Spencer Bachus | May 13, 2004 | |
| D-MO | Wm. Lacy Clay | May 13, 2004 | |
| D-TN | Jim Cooper | Jun 2, 2004 | |
| D-AL | Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. | Jun 2, 2004 | |
| D-TX | Eddie Bernice Johnson | Jun 3, 2004 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Jun 14, 2004 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Jun 14, 2004 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 30, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 23, 2004Introduced in House
- Mar 23, 2004Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- Ambulatory care
- Billboards
- Chronically ill
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Continuing education
- Cost effectiveness
- Cost of living adjustments
- Curricula
- Demography
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Distance education
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Educational statistics
- Educational technology
- Executive reorganization
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Geriatrics
- Government Operations and Politics
- Graduate education
- Health
- Health surveys
- Higher education
- Home care services
- Hospitals
- Interest
- Interest rates
- Internet
- Labor and Employment
- Managed care
- Medical education
- Medical statistics
- Mentoring
- Newspapers
- Nursing homes
- Paramedical personnel
- Part-time employment
- Public service advertising
- Quality of care
- Radio broadcasting
- Recruiting of employees
- Scholarships
- School administration
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Student loan funds
- Teacher education
- Teacher supply and demand
- Teachers
- Television broadcasting
- Vocational guidance
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 23, 2004Introduced in House
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