[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5380 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5380

To require applications for a health profession opportunity grant under 
   section 2008 of the Social Security Act to contain evidence of in-
                    demand jobs or worker shortages.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 16, 2025

  Mr. Boyle of Pennsylvania introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To require applications for a health profession opportunity grant under 
   section 2008 of the Social Security Act to contain evidence of in-
                    demand jobs or worker shortages.

    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 ``Labor Market Response Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT APPLICATION CONTAIN EVIDENCE OF IN-DEMAND JOBS 
              OR WORKER SHORTAGES.

    Section 2008 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397g) is 
amended by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and 
(e), respectively, and inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Application Requirement.--An application for a grant under 
this section shall contain a description of the availability and 
relevance of recent labor market information and other pertinent 
evidence of in-demand jobs or worker shortages.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by this Act shall take effect on October 1, 
2025.
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