Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act
Latest action · Jun 5, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
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 5, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Labor to establish and carry out a health professions training demonstration project that awards grants to eligible entities to train certain unemployed workers from the manufacturing or service sector for employment as health care professionals in communities with manufacturing and service sector job loss and health care professional shortages.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 12, 2007 to Aug 2, 2007.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Mar 12, 2007 | |
| D-OH | Betty Sutton | Aug 2, 2007 | |
| R-MI | Joe Knollenberg | Aug 2, 2007 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 5, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
- Mar 6, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 5, 2007Introduced in House
- Mar 5, 2007Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 620 | Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act | Identical bill | Feb 15, 2007 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.
- Access to health care
- Commerce
- Community health services
- Dislocated workers
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Employee training
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Health
- Higher education
- Homeless
- Housing and Community Development
- Indian education
- Indian medical care
- Labor and Employment
- Layoffs
- Manufacturing industries
- Medical education
- Medical personnel
- Minorities
- Occupational retraining
- Paramedical personnel
- Plant shutdowns
- Social Welfare
- Unemployment
- Unemployment insurance
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 5, 2007Introduced in House
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