Amends the Public Health Service Act to make disadvantaged students enrolled in social work programs eligible for scholarships. Makes schools offering social work programs eligible for assistance for certain disadvantaged faculty programs, programs to support excellence in health profession education for minorities, programs to support health career opportunities, and programs to support geriatric training projects.
Authorizes grants to, or contracts with, hospitals, schools offering programs in social work, or other entities for the development of social work training programs and financial assistance to participants and teachers of such programs.
Authorizes grants to, or contracts with, schools offering programs in social work to meet the costs of projects to establish or maintain administrative units to provide clinical instruction in social work.
Authorizes and allocates appropriations.
Adds "clinical social worker" to specified profession definitions under health maintenance organization provisions.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S284)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
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