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H.R. 3767: Ensuring Children's Access to Specialty Care Act of 2017

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H.R. 3767: Ensuring Children's Access to Specialty Care Act of 2017

115th Congress · introduced 2017-09-13 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-09-13 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Long, Billy [R-MO-7] · 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 on Health. 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

Ensuring Children's Access to Specialty Care Act of 2017

Plain summary

Ensuring Children’s Access to Specialty Care Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to include pediatric subspecialties in primary health services for purposes of the National Health Service Corps (NHSC). Psychiatrists who are pediatric subspecialists are included in behavioral and mental health professionals. (These amendments make pediatric subspecialists, including psychiatrists, eligible for the NHSC fellowship program for the delivery of primary health services in health professional shortage areas, the NHSC Scholarship Program, and the NHSC Loan Repayment Program.) “Health professional shortage area” can mean an underserved population of children and adolescents.

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What does this mean? (plain words)

Official text

Ensuring Children's Access to Specialty Care Act of 2017

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Long, Billy [R-MO-7] · 47 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Joe Courtney (D-CT), Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL), Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), André Carson (D-IN), H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL), Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Mark Pocan (D-WI), David G. Valadao (R-CA), Katherine M. Clark (D-MA), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Andy Barr (R-KY), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY), Danny K. Davis (D-IL)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr3767 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115