Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2017”.
National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2017
A BILL
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the participation of doctors of chiropractic in the National Health Service Corps scholarship and loan repayment programs, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Participation of doctors of chiropractic in National Health Service Corps
Primary health care services— Section 331 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254d) is amended—
in subsection (a)(3)(D), by striking “or mental health,” and inserting “chiropractic, or mental health,”; and
in subsection (b)(2), by striking “and physician assistants” and inserting “doctors of chiropractic, and physician assistants”.
in subsection (a)(1), by striking “and physician assistants” and inserting “doctors of chiropractic, and physician assistants”; and
in subsection (b)(1), by striking “or other health profession” and inserting “chiropractic, or other health profession”.
Loan repayment program—
in subsection (a)(1), by striking “and physician assistants” and inserting “doctors of chiropractic, and physician assistants”;
in subsection (b)(1)(A), by striking “or another health profession” and inserting “chiropractic, or another health profession”; and
in subsections (b)(1)(B) and (b)(1)(C)(ii), by striking the term or other health profession each place such term appears and inserting “chiropractic, or other health profession”.
Period of obligated service— Clauses (ii) and (iii) of section 338C(b)(5)(C) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254m(b)(5)(C)) are amended by striking the term or other health profession each place such term appears and inserting “chiropractic, or other health profession”.