IIB
112th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 525
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 9, 2011
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
AN ACT
To amend the Public Health Service Act to enhance and increase the number of veterinarians trained in veterinary public health.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the
Veterinary Public Health Amendments
Act of 2011
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Inclusion of veterinary public health in certain public health workforce provisions
Public health workforce grants
Subsections (b)(1)(A) and (d)(6) of section 765
of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 295) are amended by
inserting veterinary public health,
after preventive
medicine,
each place it appears.
Public health workforce loan repayment program
In general
Subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section 776(b)(1) of the
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 295f–1(b)(1)) are
amended by striking public health or health professions degree or
certificate
each place it appears and inserting public health
(including veterinary public health) or health professions degree or
certificate
.
Technical correction
Subparagraph (A) of section 776(b)(1) of the Public
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 295f–1(b)(1)) is
amended by adding or
at the end.
Definition
Section 799B of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 295p) is amended by adding at the end the following:
Veterinary public health
The term veterinary public health includes veterinarians engaged in one or more of the following areas to the extent such areas have an impact on human health: biodefense and emergency preparedness, emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, environmental health, ecosystem health, pre- and post-harvest food protection, regulatory medicine, diagnostic laboratory medicine, veterinary pathology, biomedical research, the practice of food animal medicine in rural areas, and government practice.
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Passed the House of Representatives March 8, 2011.
Karen L. Haas,
Clerk