HR 1312 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2015

Introduced Mar 4, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Cathy McMorris Rodgers R-WA

Latest action · Mar 6, 2015 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 4, 2015
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2015

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to include optometry services in primary health services for purposes of the National Health Service Corps.

Optometrists are eligible for the fellowship program for the delivery of primary health services in health professional shortage areas, the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program, and the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program.

Cosponsors 137

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 4, 2015 to Dec 8, 2016; 6 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-IL	Adam Kinzinger	Original	Mar 4, 2015
R-MO	Billy Long	Original	Mar 4, 2015
R-KY	Brett Guthrie	Original	Mar 4, 2015
R-VA	H. Morgan Griffith	Original	Mar 4, 2015
D-FL	Kathy Castor	Original	Mar 4, 2015
D-OR	Kurt Schrader	Original	Mar 4, 2015
R-OK	Jim Bridenstine		Mar 19, 2015
D-IA	David Loebsack		Apr 14, 2015
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Apr 14, 2015
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		Apr 15, 2015
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		Apr 15, 2015
R-PA	Charles W. Dent		Apr 15, 2015
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Apr 15, 2015
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		Apr 15, 2015
R-AK	Don Young		Apr 15, 2015
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Apr 15, 2015
R-KY	Ed Whitfield		Apr 15, 2015
D-CA	Karen Bass		Apr 15, 2015
R-NJ	Leonard Lance		Apr 15, 2015
D-HI	Mark Takai		Apr 15, 2015
R-AL	Mike Rogers		Apr 15, 2015
D-MA	Niki Tsongas		Apr 15, 2015
D-CA	Sam Farr		Apr 15, 2015
R-CO	Scott R. Tipton		Apr 15, 2015
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Apr 15, 2015
D-CA	Ted Lieu		Apr 15, 2015
R-KY	Thomas Massie		Apr 15, 2015
D-FL	Alan Grayson		Apr 22, 2015
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Apr 22, 2015
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Apr 22, 2015
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Apr 22, 2015
R-MI	John R. Moolenaar		Apr 22, 2015
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Apr 22, 2015
D-CA	Raul Ruiz		Apr 22, 2015
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Apr 22, 2015
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		May 14, 2015
D-CA	Ami Bera		May 14, 2015
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		May 14, 2015
R-WA	Dan Newhouse		May 14, 2015
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		May 14, 2015
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		May 14, 2015
D-WA	Denny Heck		May 14, 2015
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		May 14, 2015
D-CO	Jared Polis		May 14, 2015
D-CA	Julia Brownley		May 14, 2015
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		May 14, 2015
R-NV	Mark E. Amodei		May 14, 2015
R-NC	Mark Meadows		May 14, 2015
R-OK	Markwayne Mullin		May 14, 2015
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		May 14, 2015
D-CA	Norma J. Torres		May 14, 2015
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		May 14, 2015
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		May 14, 2015
R-MS	Steven M. Palazzo		May 14, 2015
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		May 14, 2015
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		May 19, 2015
D-IL	Mike Quigley		May 19, 2015
R-IL	Robert J. Dold		May 21, 2015
R-IL	Rodney Davis		May 21, 2015
R-OH	Bill Johnson		Jun 3, 2015
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Jun 3, 2015
R-PA	Michael G. Fitzpatrick		Jun 3, 2015
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Jun 3, 2015
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jun 3, 2015
D-IL	Bill Foster		Jun 11, 2015
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Jun 11, 2015
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Jun 11, 2015
R-OK	Frank D. Lucas		Jun 11, 2015
R-WA	Jaime Herrera Beutler		Jun 11, 2015
R-NC	Renee L. Ellmers		Jun 11, 2015
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jun 11, 2015
D-VT	Peter Welch		Jun 15, 2015
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas		Jun 15, 2015
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan		Jun 18, 2015
D-WI	Ron Kind		Jun 18, 2015
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Jul 7, 2015
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Jul 7, 2015
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Jul 7, 2015
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Jul 7, 2015
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jul 7, 2015
R-NV	Joseph J. Heck		Jul 7, 2015
R-TN	Stephen Lee Fincher		Jul 7, 2015
D-IL	Tammy Duckworth		Jul 7, 2015
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Jul 9, 2015
R-CA	David G. Valadao		Jul 9, 2015
R-OH	David P. Joyce		Jul 13, 2015
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		Jul 15, 2015
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Jul 22, 2015
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark		Jul 22, 2015
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Jul 28, 2015
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		Jul 28, 2015
R-GA	Doug Collins		Jul 29, 2015
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		Sep 8, 2015
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice		Sep 8, 2015
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Sep 8, 2015
D-HI	Tulsi Gabbard		Sep 8, 2015
R-NY	Christopher P. Gibson		Sep 18, 2015
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Sep 18, 2015
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Sep 24, 2015
R-IL	Mike Bost		Sep 28, 2015
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Oct 6, 2015
R-MO	Sam Graves		Oct 6, 2015
D-CA	John Garamendi		Oct 9, 2015
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		Oct 9, 2015
D-NE	Brad Ashford		Oct 20, 2015
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Oct 20, 2015
D-MA	William R. Keating		Oct 20, 2015
R-MO	Jason Smith		Oct 21, 2015
R-PA	Ryan A. Costello		Oct 21, 2015
D-NV	Dina Titus		Oct 27, 2015
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Nov 3, 2015
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Nov 16, 2015
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		Nov 18, 2015
R-OR	Greg Walden		Dec 15, 2015
R-IA	David Young		Apr 19, 2016
R-KY	Harold Rogers		Apr 19, 2016
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Apr 19, 2016
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Apr 20, 2016
R-WI	F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.		Apr 21, 2016
R-ND	Kevin Cramer		Apr 21, 2016
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Apr 21, 2016
R-SC	Joe Wilson		Apr 26, 2016
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Apr 26, 2016
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Apr 26, 2016
R-MI	Tim Walberg		Apr 29, 2016
R-PA	Bill Shuster		May 10, 2016
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		May 10, 2016
R-OH	Steve Stivers		May 10, 2016
D-FL	Gwen Graham		May 16, 2016
R-AZ	Paul A. Gosar		May 18, 2016
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Jun 7, 2016
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham		Jul 1, 2016
D-MA	Seth Moulton		Jul 11, 2016
R-SC	Jeff Duncan		Sep 14, 2016
D-TX	Henry Cuellar		Sep 27, 2016
D-MD	John K. Delaney		Dec 6, 2016
D-NY	Grace Meng		Dec 8, 2016

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Mar 4, 2015
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Mar 6, 2015

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 6, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 4, 2015Introduced in House
Mar 4, 2015Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: The Constitutional authority in which this bill rests is the power of the Congress to regulate Commerce as enumerated by Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 as applied to providing for the general welfare of the United States through the administration of the National Health Service Corps.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 37, March 4, 2015, page H1617.

Related bills 1

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 898	National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2015	Identical bill	Apr 13, 2015

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the participation of optometrists in the National Health Service Corps scholarship and loan repayment programs, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2015

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 4, 2015Introduced in House

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