Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2014
Bill journey · stage 2 of 5
Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in house (Sep 8, 2014)
Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2014 - Requires the Administrator of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to award one medical or nursing school a grant to develop best practices for health care professionals to recognize and respond appropriately to victims of severe forms of human trafficking.
Requires the grantee to: (1) develop methods or materials to train health care professionals on best practices, (2) make a subgrant to one entity in each of the 10 administrative regions of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a pilot program to test the best practices and training, and (3) analyze the results of the pilot programs and determine which best practices are evidence-based.
Directs HHS to disseminate evidence-based best practices on their website and to health care profession schools.What just happenedSep 11, 2014
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseSep 8, 2014
- Sep 11, 2014Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - Sep 9, 2014IntroReferralB00100
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1362-1363)
- Sep 8, 2014IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Energy and Commerce Committee - Sep 8, 2014IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Sep 8, 2014IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House