ASSESSMENTS OF HEALTH MANPOWER SHORTAGES.

SEC. 639. ASSESSMENTS OF HEALTH MANPOWER SHORTAGES. (a) Request for Information.—Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall contact the chief executive officer of each State, the Mayor of the District of Columbia, and the chief executive officer of the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and request that each such individual submit to the Secretary an assessment of the greatest health manpower shortages by discipline of health care providers and by allopathic and osteopathic speciality, of such individuals State, District, Commonwealth, or Territory, (b) Report.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall compile and analyze the information obtained under subsection (a) 102 STAT. 3153and prepare and submit, to the appropriate Committees of Congress, as part of the October 1, 1991, report required under section 708(d)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 292h(d)(1)), a report comtaining such information and analysis.