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[CITE: 42USC295o-1]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
               SUBCHAPTER V--HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION
 
                       Part F--General Provisions
 
Sec. 295o-1. Generally applicable provisions


(a) Awarding of grants and contracts

    The Secretary shall ensure that grants and contracts under this 
subchapter are awarded on a competitive basis, as appropriate, to carry 
out innovative demonstration projects or provide for strategic workforce 
supplementation activities as needed to meet health workforce goals and 
in accordance with this subchapter. Contracts may be entered into under 
this subchapter with public or private entities as may be necessary.

(b) Eligible entities

    Unless specifically required otherwise in this subchapter, the 
Secretary shall accept applications for grants or contracts under this 
subchapter from health professions schools, academic health centers, 
State or local governments, or other appropriate public or private 
nonprofit entities for funding and participation in health professions 
and nursing training activities. The Secretary may accept applications 
from for-profit private entities if determined appropriate by the 
Secretary.

(c) Information requirements

                           (1) In general

        Recipients of grants and contracts under this subchapter shall 
    meet information requirements as specified by the Secretary.

                         (2) Data collection

        The Secretary shall establish procedures to ensure that, with 
    respect to any data collection required under this subchapter, such 
    data is collected in a manner that takes into account age, sex, 
    race, and ethnicity.

                          (3) Use of funds

        The Secretary shall establish procedures to permit the use of 
    amounts appropriated under this subchapter to be used for data 
    collection purposes.

                           (4) Evaluations

        The Secretary shall establish procedures to ensure the annual 
    evaluation of programs and projects operated by recipients of grants 
    or contracts under this subchapter. Such procedures shall ensure 
    that continued funding for such programs and projects will be 
    conditioned upon a demonstration that satisfactory progress has been 
    made by the program or project in meeting the objectives of the 
    program or project.

(d) Training programs

    Training programs conducted with amounts received under this 
subchapter shall meet applicable accreditation and quality standards.

(e) Duration of assistance

                           (1) In general

        Subject to paragraph (2), in the case of an award to an entity 
    of a grant, cooperative agreement, or contract under this 
    subchapter, the period during which payments are made to the entity 
    under the award may not exceed 5 years. The provision of payments 
    under the award shall be subject to annual approval by the Secretary 
    of the payments and subject to the availability of appropriations 
    for the fiscal year involved to make the payments. This paragraph 
    may not be construed as limiting the number of awards under the 
    program involved that may be made to the entity.

                           (2) Limitation

        In the case of an award to an entity of a grant, cooperative 
    agreement, or contract under this subchapter, paragraph (1) shall 
    apply only to the extent not inconsistent with any other provision 
    of this subchapter that relates to the period during which payments 
    may be made under the award.

(f) Peer review regarding certain programs

                           (1) In general

        Each application for a grant under this subchapter, except any 
    scholarship or loan program, including those under sections \1\ 292, 
    292q, or 292s of this title, shall be submitted to a peer review 
    group for an evaluation of the merits of the proposals made in the 
    application. The Secretary may not approve such an application 
    unless a peer review group has recommended the application for 
    approval.
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                           (2) Composition

        Each peer review group under this subsection shall be composed 
    principally of individuals who are not officers or employees of the 
    Federal Government. In providing for the establishment of peer 
    review groups and procedures, the Secretary shall ensure sex, 
    racial, ethnic, and geographic balance among the membership of such 
    groups.

                         (3) Administration

        This subsection shall be carried out by the Secretary acting 
    through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services 
    Administration.

(g) Preference or priority considerations

    In considering a preference or priority for funding which is based 
on outcome measures for an eligible entity under this subchapter, the 
Secretary may also consider the future ability of the eligible entity to 
meet the outcome preference or priority through improvements in the 
eligible entity's program design.

(h) Analytic activities

    The Secretary shall ensure that--
        (1) cross-cutting workforce analytical activities are carried 
    out as part of the workforce information and analysis activities 
    under section 294n of this title; and
        (2) discipline-specific workforce information and analytical 
    activities are carried out as part of--
            (A) the community-based linkage program under part D of this 
        subchapter; and
            (B) the health workforce development program under subpart 2 
        of part E of this subchapter.

(i) Osteopathic Schools

    For purposes of this subchapter, any reference to--
        (1) medical schools shall include osteopathic medical schools; 
    and
        (2) medical students shall include osteopathic medical students.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, Sec. 799, as added Pub. L. 105-392, 
title I, Sec. 106(a)(2)(F), Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3558.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 799 of act July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 799B 
by Pub. L. 105-392 and classified to section 295p of this title.
    Another prior section 799 of act July 1, 1944, was classified to 
section 295i of this title prior to the general amendment of this 
subchapter by Pub. L. 102-408.
