118th Congress · SENATE BILLBILL

S. 1403Medical Student Education Authorization Act of 2023

A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a grant program to award grants to accredited public institutions of higher education, and for other purposes.

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Introduced May 2, 2023
Last action May 2, 2023
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This bill provides statutory authority for the Medical Student Education Program, which provides matching grants for educating and training medical students and encouraging them to serve as primary care physicians in tribal, rural, or medically underserved communities. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) must award the grants to public institutions of higher education located in states that rank in the top quintile of states based on their projected shortage of primary care physicians. In awarding the grants, HRSA must give priority to recipients that (1) are located in states with two or more federally recognized Indian tribes, and (2) have established or plan to estab...

Provisions · 2 sectionsIntroduced in Senate
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May 2, 2023
Introduced in Senate
May 2, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.