Bill > HR3398

This bill, the Pathways to Health Careers Act, aims to provide low-income individuals with opportunities to enter and follow a career pathway in the health professions. It extends and expands demonstration projects to achieve this goal. Key provisions include: - Extending funding through fiscal year 2020 for demonstration projects to address health professions workforce needs. - Establishing the "Career Pathways through Health Profession Opportunity Grants" program, which would provide competitive grants to eligible entities (such as workforce boards, state agencies, and educational institutions) to train low-income individuals for allied health, health IT, nursing, and other healthcare careers. - Creating two types of demonstration projects: one focused on providing education and training for individuals with arrest or conviction records to enter healthcare careers, and one focused on providing training for entry-level workers to enter pregnancy, childbirth, and post-partum service careers. - Requiring grantees to provide support services like adult basic education, child care assistance, transportation assistance, and post-employment support to help participants succeed. - Appropriating $425 million per year from 2021 to 2025 to fund the program and associated technical assistance and evaluation activities.

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