To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a National Care Corps, and to authorize grants for local care corps programs, through which qualified volunteers provide care, companionship, and other services to individuals in need, and for other purposes.
USA115th CongressHR-3494| House
| Updated: 7/28/2017
Michelle Lujan Grisham
Democratic Representative
New Mexico
Cosponsors (1)
Health Subcommittee, Energy and Commerce Committee, Education and Workforce Committee
- Introduced
- In Committee
- On Floor
- Passed Chamber
- Enacted
National Care Corps Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Care Corps through which Corps volunteers provide certain home-based or community-based services to individuals in need via participation in local care corps programs. The National Care Corps may award grants to eligible entities to establish and implement a local care corps program through which Corps volunteers perform approved services for individuals in need.
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Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6202)
Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health
Adult day careAgingDepartment of Health and Human ServicesDisability and paralysisDisability assistanceExecutive agency funding and structureHealth care costs and insuranceHealth personnelHigher educationHome and outpatient careLong-term, rehabilitative, and terminal careSocial work, volunteer service, charitable organizationsStudent aid and college costs
To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a National Care Corps, and to authorize grants for local care corps programs, through which qualified volunteers provide care, companionship, and other services to individuals in need, and for other purposes.
USA115th CongressHR-3494| House
| Updated: 7/28/2017
National Care Corps Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Care Corps through which Corps volunteers provide certain home-based or community-based services to individuals in need via participation in local care corps programs. The National Care Corps may award grants to eligible entities to establish and implement a local care corps program through which Corps volunteers perform approved services for individuals in need.
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Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6202)
Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Michelle Lujan Grisham
Democratic Representative
New Mexico
Cosponsors (1)
Health Subcommittee, Energy and Commerce Committee, Education and Workforce Committee
Health
- Introduced
- In Committee
- On Floor
- Passed Chamber
- Enacted
Adult day careAgingDepartment of Health and Human ServicesDisability and paralysisDisability assistanceExecutive agency funding and structureHealth care costs and insuranceHealth personnelHigher educationHome and outpatient careLong-term, rehabilitative, and terminal careSocial work, volunteer service, charitable organizationsStudent aid and college costs