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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Jun 3, 2009
Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Labor to establish and carry out a health professions training demonstration project that awards matching grants to eligible entities to train certain unemployed workers for employment as health care professionals in communities: (1) with a significant percentage decline in rates of employment and a health care professional shortage; or (2) that are underserved by the health care structure.
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Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] · D–WI
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6034-6035)
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6033-6034)
Introduced in Senate
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