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Improving Access to Addiction Medicine Providers Act
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.
Summary
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the Minority Fellowship Program to include training for addiction medicine professionals. The amendments add addiction medicine as an eligible specialty alongside psychiatry and other fields covered by the fellowship program. The bill also expands the scope of the program to include diagnosis-related training. These changes authorize federal fellowships to support training and development of minority professionals in the addiction medicine field.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX] (R-TX)
1 cosponsor
- Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM] (D-NM)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to John Cornyn’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- CAPITAL GROUP $22,500
- ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ $16,500
- PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES $13,686
- WINKLEVOSS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT $13,200
- BLACKSTONE $12,600
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for John Cornyn → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Mar 13, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. · senate
- Mar 13, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
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
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,”. <all>
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