Health Care Workforce Investment Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 9812 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9812 To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to States to establish, increase the availability of, and improve access to, qualified health care programs to increase and strengthen the health care workforce in such States. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 25, 2024 Mr. Comer (for himself and Mr. McGarvey) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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 _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to States to establish, increase the availability of, and improve access to, qualified health care programs to increase and strengthen the health care workforce in such States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Health Care Workforce Investment Act''. SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. It is the sense of Congress to address the Nation's shortage of a broad spectrum of health care professionals, including direct support professionals, nurses, mental health professionals, nurse aides, and emergency medical services professionals by incentivizing collaboration between health care programs, health care industry partners, and States to grow and strengthen the education and training pipeline of health care professionals within the Nation to better serve patients and families by: (1) Improving the ability of a broad variety of health care p