A bill to amend title VIII of the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the programs of assistance under that title for nurse training.
Nurse Training Act - =Title I: Construction Assistance= - Extends, under the Public Health Service Act, the authorization of appropriations for grants for specified loan quarantees and interest subsidies.
=Title II: Capitation Grants= - States that each collegiate school of nursing shall receive $400 for each student enrolled in each of the last two years of such school. Provides capitation grants for other schools of nursing and authorizes appropriations for such grants.
=Title III: Financial Distress Grants= - Allows the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to public or non-profit private schools of nursing which are in serious financial straits. Prescribes the procedures for the making of such grants and authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1977 for the grants.
=Title IV: Special Project Assistance= - Empowers the Secretary to make grants to schools of nursing and other entities to meet the costs of special projects, including projects to: (1) increase nursing education opportunities for disadvantaged students; (2) provide continuing education for nurses; (3) increase the supply or distribution by geographic area or by specialty group of adequately trained nursing personnel needed to meet the health needs of the Nation, including the need to increase the availability of personal health services and the need to promote preventive health care; and (4) train and educate in order to upgrade the skills of licensed vocational or practical nurses, nursing assistants, and other paraprofessional nursing personnel.
Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1977 for such grants and contracts.
Provides for the making of grants, and authorizes appropriations for such grants, by the Secretary for: (1) advanced nurse training programs; and (2) nurse practitioner programs. Directs the Secretary to prescribe guidelines for programs for nurse practitioners.
=Title V: Assistance to Nursing Students= - Extends the authorization of appropriations for traineeships, student loans, and the program to encourage full utilization of educational talent for nursing. Extends the nursing scholarship program.
=Title VI: Technical and Conforming Amendments= - Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Public Health Service Act.
=Title VII: Miscellaneous= - Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to determine on a continuing basis the current and projected supply of the various classifications of nurses, their geographic distribution, pay rates, activity status, and advanced training status.
Requires a report annually to the Congress upon such findings together with recommendations for legislation to achieve an equitable distribution and supply of nurses within the United States and within each State.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Reported to House from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce with amendment, H. Rept. 93-1510.
Reported to House from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce with amendment, H. Rept. 93-1510.
Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, amended.
Measure passed House, amended.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Measure passed Senate, amended.
Measure passed Senate, amended.
Resolving differences -- House actions: House agreed to Senate amendments.
House agreed to Senate amendments.
Measure presented to President.
Measure presented to President.
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Pocket vetoed by President.
Pocket vetoed by President.