Official Summaries

Improving Access to Addiction Medicine Providers Act

This bill provides statutory authority for the Minority Fellowship Program to include fellowships for training in the field of addiction medicine. (The Minority Fellowship Program, administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, funds fellowships for individuals seeking graduate degrees and planning to work on addressing mental or substance use disorders in racial and ethnic minority populations.) 

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1036 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1036

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize fellowships under 
    the Minority Fellowship Program to be awarded for training for 
             professionals in the addiction medicine field.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 13, 2025

 Mr. Cornyn (for himself and Mr. Lujan) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize fellowships under 
    the Minority Fellowship Program to be awarded for training for 
             professionals in the addiction medicine field.

    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 ``Improving Access to Addiction 
Medicine Providers Act''.

SEC. 2. MINORITY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM.

    Section 597 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290ll) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1), by inserting ``diagnosis,'' after 
        ``related to''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by inserting ``addiction medicine,'' 
        after ``psychiatry,''.
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