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H.R. 2037: Native American Psychiatric and Mental Health Care Improvement Act

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H.R. 2037: Native American Psychiatric and Mental Health Care Improvement Act

113th Congress · introduced 2013-05-16 · Native Americans · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2013-05-16 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Native American Psychiatric and Mental Health Care Improvement Act

Plain summary

Native American Psychiatric and Mental Health Care Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award a five-year grant to one department of psychiatry in, or one non-profit entity affiliated with, an accredited medical school in this country to carry out a demonstration program to recruit, train, deploy, and professionally support psychiatric physicians who agree to provide primary and specialty health care services in Indian health programs for at least two years. Requires the grantee to: (1) create a nationally-replicable workforce model that identifies and incorporates best practices for carrying out such activities, and (2) provide participating psychiatric physicians with up to one year of supplemental clinical and cultural competency training that enables them to provide primary and specialty health care services in Indian health programs. Requires participating psychiatric physicians to: (1) be licensed or eligible for licensure to practice in the state to which they will be deployed; and (2) demonstrate a commitment, beyond the one year of training and two years of deployment, to a career as a specialty care or primary care physician providing mental health services in Indian health programs. Gives a preference to psychiatric physicians who are American Indians or Alaska Natives. Directs the Secretary to make a repayment, under the Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program, of the educational loans of participating psychiatric physicians for each year of their deployment to an Indian health program.

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Official text

Native American Psychiatric and Mental Health Care Improvement Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5] · 23 cosponsors

Cost estimate: No cost estimate published yet.

Cosponsors on this site

Tom Cole (R-OK), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong113-hr2037 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113