S 632
Advanced toward a vote
Allows Indian Health Service scholarship and loan recipients to meet their service obligations through half-time clinical practice, with the required service period lengthened to make up for the reduced hours.
Official title: IHS Workforce Parity Act of 2025
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Senate
Introduced
19-FEB-2025
Referred
19-FEB-2025
Approved by committee
05-MAR-2025
Reported
12-MAY-2025
On the calendar
12-MAY-2025
- Lets scholarship recipients meet their service obligation through half-time practice in the Service, in tribal or Title V programs, or in qualifying private practice in a shortage area, if they agree in writing to double the obligated period.
- Lets loan repayment recipients choose 4 years of half-time clinical service, or 2 years of half-time service with loan payments set at 50 percent of the full-time amount.
- Requires that breach-of-contract damages for half-time service be calculated by converting the service performed into its full-time equivalent.
- Short title: IHS Workforce Parity Act of 2025.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in Senate" (19-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Reported to Senate, 12-MAY-2025).
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Native Americans
■ 1 R
1 Republican