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H.R. 647: Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act

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H.R. 647: Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act

116th Congress · introduced 2019-01-17 · Health · Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-01-17 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 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

Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act

Plain summary

Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take a series of actions relating to palliative-care training. Specifically, HHS must provide support for Palliative Care and Hospice Education Centers. The centers must improve the training of health professionals in palliative care and establish traineeships for individuals preparing for advanced-education nursing degrees, social-work degrees, or advanced degrees in physician-assistant studies in palliative care. HHS may provide support to medical schools, teaching hospitals, and graduate medical-education programs for training physicians who plan to teach palliative medicine. HHS must (1) provide Palliative Medicine and Hospice Academic Career Awards to individuals to promote their career development, (2) support entities that operate a Palliative Care and Hospice Education Center, (3) support individuals in specified fields who are pursuing an advanced degree in palliative care or related fields, and (4) award grants to nursing programs to train individuals in providing palliative care. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality must provide for a national education and awareness campaign to inform patients, families, and health professionals about the benefits of palliative care. The National Institutes of Health must expand national research programs in palliative care.

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Official text

Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16] · 295 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Darren Soto (D-FL), Doris O. Matsui (D-CA), Robin L. Kelly (D-IL), Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL), Robert E. Latta (R-OH), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Tim Walberg (R-MI), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), David P. Joyce (R-OH), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Peter Welch (D-VT), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Harold Rogers (R-KY), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Gwen Moore (D-WI), John Garamendi (D-CA), Mark Takano (D-CA), Bill Foster (D-IL), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Brian J. Mast (R-FL), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and 235 more.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr647 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116