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2025-01-23 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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2025-01-23
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Health
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This bill would extend a federal health training program that helps people learn how to spot and respond to human trafficking and related health needs. It keeps the program going for five more years, from fiscal year 2025 through 2029, instead of ending after 2024. The bill also takes back $20 million from unused money in a Department of Health and Human Services fund.
- Extends the training program through fiscal years 2025 to 2029.
- The program is meant to help health workers and others “stop, observe, ask, and respond” when they may be seeing someone who needs help.
- Rescinds $20 million from unused funds in a HHS account called the Nonrecurring Expenses Fund.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 208 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 208
To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the Stop,
Observe, Ask, and Respond to Health and Wellness Training Program.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 23, 2025
Mr. Schmitt (for himself and Ms. Klobuchar) 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 reauthorize the Stop,
Observe, Ask, and Respond to Health and Wellness Training Program.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE SOAR TO HEALTH AND WELLNESS TRAINING
PROGRAM.
(a) In General.--Section 1254(h) of the Public Health Service Act
(42 U.S.C. 300d-54(h)) is amended by striking ``fiscal years 2020
through 2024'' and inserting ``fiscal years 2025 through 2029''.
(b) Rescission of Funds.--Of the unobligated balances in the
Nonrecurring Expenses Fund (009-90-0125) of the Department of Health
and Human Services, there is rescinded $20,000,000.
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