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S. 2913: Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act

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S. 2913: Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act

108th Congress · introduced 2004-10-07 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10706)

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2004-10-07 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10706) Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act

Plain summary

Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Labor to establish and carry out a health professions training demonstration project that awards grants to eligible entities to train certain unemployed workers from the manufacturing or service sector for employment as health care professionals in communities with manufacturing and service sector job loss, health professional shortages, or health services shortages, or those designated as a medically underserved community.

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Official text

Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] · 0 cosponsors

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong108-s2913 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong108 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong108