Health Professionals Scholarship Program Improvement Act of 2025
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1Short title
This section would let the Act be called the "Health Professionals Scholarship Program Improvement Act of 2025" or the "HPSP Improvement Act of 2025."
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Health Professionals Scholarship Program Improvement Act of 2025 or the HPSP Improvement Act of 2025 .
2Time frame for employment of participants in Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professionals Scholarship Program
This section would add a new subsection (d) to section 7616 of title 38, United States Code. Under the new subsection, no later than 90 days after a Health Professionals Scholarship Program participant's course completion date, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs would have to ensure that the participant receives a contract for full-time clinical practice employment in their profession at a Department of Veterans Affairs facility with the highest need, as determined by the Secretary. That contract would have to include a competitive salary and benefits package consistent with the Department's employment standards. This section would also require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, no later than 180 days after the Act is enacted and every 180 days after that, to submit a report to the Senate and House Committees on Veterans' Affairs on how the new subsection (d) is being implemented. This reporting requirement would end on September 30, 2027.
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2. Time frame for employment of participants in Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professionals Scholarship Program (a) in general Section 7616 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (d) Not later than 90 days after the course completion date of a participant in the Scholarship Program, the Secretary shall ensure that the participant receives a contract for employment in the full-time clinical practice of such participant’s profession at a Department facility with the highest need, as determined by the Secretary. Such contract shall include a competitive salary and benefits package consistent with the employment standards of the Department. . (b) Report (1) In general Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter until the termination date specified in paragraph (2), the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives a report on the implementation of subsection (d) of section 7616 of title 38, United States Code, as added by subsection (a). (2) Termination date The termination date specified in this paragraph is September 30, 2027.
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In the House.