H.R. 8723House116th Congress (2019-2021)In Committee

To condition receipt of State funding from the Bureau of Health Workforce on adoption by the State of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, and for other purposes.

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The bill ties federal health workforce funding to a state's participation in the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact and adds a new requirement for licensing boards that receive certain grants. It aims to encourage states to join the compact, which makes it easier for doctors to practice across state lines, and to promote telemedicine by having specialty physicians raise public awareness.

Key Provisions

If a state does not adopt the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact by law within three years of the bill’s enactment, it becomes ineligible for any funds or assistance from the Bureau of Health Workforce; the state can regain eligibility if it later joins the compact.
Grants to professional licensing boards that oversee physician licensure may not be awarded unless the board conducts a public awareness campaign encouraging specialty physicians to practice telemedicine.
The grant provision’s reference period is updated to cover fiscal years 2021 through 2025.

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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Energy and Commerce Committee

October 30, 2020

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Introduced in House

October 30, 2020

HouseIntro Referral

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Energy and Commerce Committee

October 30, 2020

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Introduced in HouseIssued October 30, 2020

116th CONGRESS

2d Session

H. R. 8723

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

October 30, 2020

Mr. Yoho (for himself, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Tiffany, and Mr. Hagedorn) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To condition receipt of State funding from the Bureau of Health Workforce on adoption by the State of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, and for other purposes.

Conditioning receipt of State funding from the Bureau of Health Workforce on adoption by the State of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact

In the case of a State that has not, by the date that is 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, joined, through enactment of a State law, the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact facilitating physician interstate licensure, as of the day after such 3-year period, the State shall not be eligible for any funds or assistance administered by the Bureau of Health Workforce of the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services. In the case of a State that becomes ineligible for such funds or assistance pursuant to the previous sentence, if such State after such 3-year date joins, through enactment of a State law, the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may determine such State is no longer ineligible for such funds or assistance pursuant to the previous sentence.

Conditioning certain professional licensing board grants on provision of specialty physician public awareness campaign on telemedicine

Section 330L of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c–18) is amended—

(1)

by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c);

(2)

by inserting after subsection (c) the following new subsection:

(c)

Public awareness campaign

A grant may not be made under subsection (a) to a professional licensing board that participates in the licensure of physicians unless the professional licensure board provides for a public awareness campaign to encourage specialty physicians to practice telemedicine.

; and

(3)

in subsection (c), as redesignated by paragraph (1), by striking fiscal years 2002 through 2006 and inserting fiscal years 2021 through 2025.