ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS DATA.

SEC. 626. ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS DATA. Section 708 (42 US.C. 292h) is amended by adding at the end the following: “(h)(1) In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary may make grants, or enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with, and 102 STAT. 3145provide technical assistance to, any nonprofit entity in order to establish a uniform allied health professions data reporting system to collect, compile, and analyze data on the allied health professions personnel. “(2) In the first report under subsection (d) made 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act and in each biennial report thereafter, the Secretary include a description and analysis of data collected pursuant to paragraph (1).”.