Provider Training in Palliative Care Act
This bill allows National Health Service Corps (NHSC) participants to apply for a deferral of their service obligation period in order to receive training in palliative care. The Department of Health and Human Services may grant a deferral for up to one year.
The NHSC provides scholarships and student loan repayment awards to primary care, dental, and mental health providers who agree to complete a service obligation period by working in areas designated as having a shortage of those types of providers.
To allow participants in the National Health Service Corps to defer 
their obligated service in order to receive training in palliative care 
                               services.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Provider Training in Palliative Care 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFERRAL OF OBLIGATED SERVICES FOR TRAINING IN PALLIATIVE CARE.

    Section 331 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254d) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (j) as subsection (k); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (i) the following:
    ``(j) In carrying out subpart III, the Secretary may issue 
deferrals of the period of obligated service to individuals who have 
entered into a contract for obligated service under the Scholarship 
Program or the Loan Repayment Program and who apply for such a deferral 
in order to receive training in palliative care. The Secretary may 
grant such a deferral to such an individual for a period of up to 1 
year.''.
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Provider Training in Palliative Care Act
A bill to allow the participants in the National Health Service Corps to defer their obligated service in order to receive training in palliative care services.
Provider Training in Palliative Care Act
Sen. Rosen, Jacky