Health Resources and Services Administration

Health Resources and Services Administration health resources and services For carrying out titles II, III, VII, VIII, X, XII, XIX, and XXVI of the Public Health Service Act, section 427(a) of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, title V and sections 1128E and 1820 of the Social Security Act, the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, as amended, the Native Hawaiian Health Care Act of 1988, as amended, the Cardiac Arrest Survival Act of 2000, and the Poison Control Center Enhancement and Awareness Act, $6,081,237,000, of which $311,978,000 shall be available for construction and renovation of health care and other facilities, and of which $40,000,000 from general revenues, notwithstanding section 1820(j) of the Social Security Act, shall be available for carrying out the Medicare rural hospital flexibility grants program under section 1820 of such Act: Provided, That of the funds made available under this heading, $250,000 shall be available until expended for facilities renovations at the Gillis W. Long Hansen’s Disease Center: Provided further, That in addition to fees authorized by section 427(b) of the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, fees shall be collected for the full disclosure of information under the Act sufficient to recover the full costs of operating the National Practitioner Data Bank, and shall remain available until expended to carry out that Act: Provided further, That fees collected for the full disclosure of information under the “Health Care Fraud and Abuse Data Collection Program”, authorized by section 1128E(d)(2) of the Social Security Act, shall be sufficient to recover the frill costs of operating the program, and shall remain available until expended to carry out that Act: Provided further, That no more than $15,000,000 is available for carrying out the provisions of Public Law 104–73: Provided further, That of the funds made available under this heading, $265,085,000 shall be for the program under title X of the Public Health Service Act to provide for voluntary family planning projects: Provided further, That amounts provided to said projects under such title shall not be expended for abortions, that all pregnancy counseling shall be nondirective, and that such amounts shall not be expended for any activity (including the publication or distribution of literature) that in any way tends to promote public support or opposition to any legislative proposal or candidate for public office: Provided further, That $639,000,000 shall be for State AIDS Drug Assistance Programs authorized by section 2616 of the Public Health Service Act: Provided further, That of the amount provided under this heading, $80,000 shall be for the Wausau Health Foundation in Wausau, Wisconsin, for a survey and analysis of local health professionals’ career paths to better understand entry into and exit from health professions, $100,000 shall be for the University of San Diego Institute for the Advancement of Health Policy to assess through teaching, research and delivery of services the impact of public policy on families from vulnerable populations, $200,000 shall be for the Luna County, New Mexico and the Columbus Volunteer Fire Department to provide emergency medical services to immigrants, $350,000 shall be for the Clinical Pharmacy Training Program at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, $475,000 shall be 115 STAT. 2187for the American Federation of Negro Affairs, $500,000 shall be for the University of Washington Center for Health Workforce Studies in Seattle, Washington, for a demonstration project to collect and analyze health workforce data, $800,000 shall be for the University of Iowa for the training of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, $1,000,000 shall be for the Washington Health Foundation for a comprehensive demonstration project on improving nurse retention, and $1,100,000 shall be for the Iowa Department of Public Health to create a Center for Health Care Workforce Shortage: Provided further, That, notwithstanding section 502(a)(1) of the Social Security Act, not to exceed $115,236,000 is available for carrying out special projects of regional and national significance pursuant to section 501(a)(2) of such Act, of which $50,000 is for the Center for Great Expectations, Somerville, New Jersey to provide prenatal health care, education and counseling for pregnant teens, $565,000 is for the Milwaukee Health Department for a pilot program providing health care services to at-risk children in day care, and $4,000,000 is for the Columbia Hospital for Women Medical Center in Washington, D.C., to support community outreach programs for women: Provided further, That $10,000,000 is available for special projects of regional and national significance under section 501(a)(2) of the Social Security Act, which shall not be counted toward compliance with the allocation required in section 502(a)(1) of such Act, and which shall be used only for making competitive grants to provide abstinence education (as defined in section 510(b)(2) of such Act) to adolescents and for evaluations (including longitudinal evaluations) of activities under the grants and for Federal costs of administering the grants: Provided further, That grants under the immediately preceding proviso shall be made only to public and private entities which agree that, with respect to an adolescent to whom the entities provide abstinence education under such grant, the entities will not provide to that adolescent any other education regarding sexual conduct, except that, in the case of an entity expressly required by law to provide health information or services the adolescent shall not be precluded from seeking health information or services from the entity in a different setting than the setting in which the abstinence education was provided: Provided further, That the funds expended for such evaluations may not exceed 3.5 percent of such amount. health education assistance loans program Such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of the program, as authorized by title VII of the Public Health Service Act, as amended. For administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan program, including section 709 of the Public Health Service Act, $3,792,000. vaccine injury compensation program trust fund For payments from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Trust Fund, such sums as may be necessary for claims associated with vaccine-related injury or death with respect to vaccines administered after September 30, 1988, pursuant to subtitle 2 of title XXI of the Public Health Service Act, to remain available until expended: Provided, That for necessary administrative expenses, not to exceed $2,992,000 shall be available from the Trust Fund to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.115 STAT. 2188