HR 4951 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Doctors Helping Heroes Act of 2014

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jul 21, 2014 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.

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.

  1. IntroducedJun 24, 2014
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Doctors Helping Heroes Act of 2014 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 to make permanent the J-1 visa waiver program (Conrad state 30/medical services in underserved areas).

Excludes from numerical immigration limitations alien physicians who have completed national interest waiver requirements by working in a health care shortage area (including alien physicians who completed such service before enactment of this Act and any of their spouses or children).

Sets forth specified employment protections and contract requirements for alien physicians working in underserved areas.

Increases the number of alien physicians that a state may be allocated from 30 to 35 per fiscal year in specified circumstances. Provides for additional increases or decreases based upon demand.

Provides up to three visa waivers per fiscal year per state for physicians in academic medical centers.

Permits dual intent for an alien coming to the United States to receive graduate medical education or training, or to take examinations required for graduate medical education or training.

Exempts from specified entry limitations H-1B nonimmigrant aliens seeking to enter the United States to pursue graduate medical education or training.

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize waiver of the two-year foreign residency requirement for an alien who has received graduate medical eduction or training in the United States and seeks to apply for an immigrant visa or permanent resident status if:

  • the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) determines that VA facilities are not capable of furnishing covered health services to eligible veterans because they lack the required personnel or cannot provide timely and reasonable access; and
  • the head of the appropriate state agency determines that the alien will practice medicine in a Veterans Health Administration facility, the alien physician's work is in the public interest, and such waiver would not cause the number of waivers allotted for that state for that fiscal year to exceed five.

Cosponsors 5

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 24, 2014 to Dec 3, 2014, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-NCMark MeadowsOriginalJun 24, 2014
D-NYGrace MengJul 10, 2014
D-AZKyrsten SinemaJul 30, 2014
D-TXPete P. GallegoJul 30, 2014
D-WASuzan K. DelBeneDec 3, 2014

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jul 21, 2014Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
  2. Jun 24, 2014Introduced in House
  3. Jun 24, 2014Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Related bills 5

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
HR 15Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization ActRelated billMar 26, 2014
S 616Conrad State 30 and Physician Access ActRelated billMar 19, 2013
S 744Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization ActRelated billJun 27, 2013
HR 2131SKILLS Visa ActRelated billDec 15, 2014
HR 2484Conrad State 30 and Physician Access ActRelated billJul 15, 2013

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Jun 24, 2014Introduced in House

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