H.R. 525 · 112th Congress
Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act of 2011
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- House Introduced Feb 8, 2011
- House Passed Mar 8, 2011 280–138
Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise a public health workforce grant program designed to increase the number of individuals in the public health workforce to include a health professions school or program of veterinary public health.
What it does: CRS summary · Passed House without amendment · Mar 8, 2011
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise a public health workforce grant program designed to increase the number of individuals in the public health workforce to include a health professions school or program of veterinary public health. Defines "veterinary public health" to include veterinarians engaged in one or more of the following areas to the extent such areas have an impact on human health: biodefense and emergency preparedness; emerging and reemerging infection diseases; environmental health; ecosystem health pre- and post-harvest food protection; regulatory medicine; diagnostic laboratory medicine; veterinary pathology; biomedical research; the practice of food animal medicine in rural areas; and government practice.
Expands the public health workforce loan repayment program to make such veterinarians eligible for the program.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
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About this bill and sources
Official title: Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act of 2011
Latest action (Mar 9, 2011): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Policy area: Animals · Origin: House · Introduced: Feb 8, 2011
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- House Introduced Feb 8, 2011
- House Passed Mar 8, 2011 280–138
Final vote · House · Mar 8, 2011
Passage (two-thirds required) — Passed. Vote details
Speaker of the House: John A. Boehner