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Calendar No. 553
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 118-240
IHS WORKFORCE PARITY ACT OF 2023
NOVEMBER 12, 2024.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. SCHATZ, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 3022]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 3022) to amend the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act to
allow Indian Health Service scholarship and loan recipients to ful-
fill service obligations through half-time clinical practice, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, and rec-
ommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
PURPOSE
S. 3022 would amend the Indian Health Care and Improvement
Act to permit recipients of the Indian Health Service's (IHS) schol-
arship and loan repayment assistance programs to fulfill service
obligations through half-time clinical practice.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The Indian Health Care Improvement Act permits the IHS to
offer scholarships and loan repayments to qualified health care pro-
fessionals in exchange for a full-time, two-year service commitment
to serve within an IHS health program, including those under con-
tracts and compacts under the Indian Self Determination and Edu-
cation Assistance Act.1 The IHS Indian Health Scholarship Pro-
gram provides qualified American Indian and Alaska Native health
professions students with financial support (including a monthly
125 U.S.C. §§1613a, 1616a.
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