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H.R.4807
Sponsor: Rep Coburn, Tom A.(introduced 6/29/2000)
Related Bills: S.2311
Latest Major Action: 7/26/2000 Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 716.
Title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend programs established under the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act of 1990, and for other purposes.
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6/29/2000:
Referred to the House Committee on Commerce.
7/13/2000:
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
7/13/2000:
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
7/25/2000 6:11pm:
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Commerce. H. Rept. 106-788.
7/25/2000 6:11pm:
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 455.
7/25/2000 11:27pm:
Mr. Coburn moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
7/25/2000 11:28pm:
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6962-6980)
7/26/2000 12:13am:
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6962-6970)
7/26/2000 12:13am:
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
7/26/2000:
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 716.
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COSPONSORS(253), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Rep Abercrombie, Neil - 7/10/2000 Rep Ackerman, Gary L. - 7/13/2000
Rep Allen, Thomas H. - 7/20/2000 Rep Andrews, Robert E. - 7/20/2000
Rep Armey, Richard K. - 6/29/2000 Rep Baca, Joe - 7/12/2000
Rep Baird, Brian - 7/11/2000 Rep Baldacci, John Elias - 7/11/2000
Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 7/13/2000 Rep Barrett, Thomas M. - 6/29/2000
Rep Bass, Charles F. - 7/20/2000 Rep Becerra, Xavier - 7/17/2000
Rep Bentsen, Ken - 7/11/2000 Rep Berkley, Shelley - 7/12/2000
Rep Berman, Howard L. - 7/10/2000 Rep Biggert, Judy - 7/18/2000
Rep Bilbray, Brian P. - 6/29/2000 Rep Bilirakis, Michael - 6/29/2000
Rep Bishop, Sanford D. Jr. - 7/20/2000 Rep Blagojevich, Rod R. - 7/18/2000
Rep Bliley, Tom - 7/20/2000 Rep Blumenauer, Earl - 7/19/2000
Rep Boehlert, Sherwood L. - 7/24/2000 Rep Bono, Mary - 6/29/2000
Rep Borski, Robert A. - 7/18/2000 Rep Boucher, Rick - 7/13/2000
Rep Boyd, Allen - 7/24/2000 Rep Brady, Kevin - 7/20/2000
Rep Brady, Robert - 7/18/2000 Rep Brown, Corrine - 7/11/2000
Rep Brown, Sherrod - 6/29/2000 Rep Burr, Richard - 6/29/2000
Rep Calvert, Ken - 7/18/2000 Rep Canady, Charles T. - 7/18/2000
Rep Capps, Lois - 7/11/2000 Rep Capuano, Michael E. - 7/24/2000
Rep Cardin, Benjamin L. - 7/19/2000 Rep Carson, Julia - 7/20/2000
Rep Castle, Michael N. - 7/19/2000 Rep Christensen, Donna MC - 7/19/2000
Rep Clay, William (Bill) - 7/25/2000 Rep Clayton, Eva M. - 7/24/2000
Rep Clement, Bob - 7/24/2000 Rep Clyburn, James E. - 7/24/2000
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. - 7/19/2000 Rep Cooksey, John - 7/17/2000
Rep Costello, Jerry F. - 7/18/2000 Rep Cox, Christopher - 6/29/2000
Rep Coyne, William J. - 7/24/2000 Rep Crowley, Joseph - 7/20/2000
Rep Cummings, Elijah E. - 7/20/2000 Rep Cunningham, Randy (Duke) - 7/19/2000
Rep Danner, Pat - 7/24/2000 Rep Davis, Danny K. - 7/18/2000
Rep Davis, Jim - 7/24/2000 Rep Davis, Thomas M. - 7/24/2000
Rep DeFazio, Peter A. - 7/17/2000 Rep DeGette, Diana - 7/13/2000
Rep Delahunt, William D. - 7/10/2000 Rep DeLauro, Rosa L. - 7/20/2000
Rep Deutsch, Peter - 6/29/2000 Rep Dicks, Norman D. - 7/18/2000
Rep Dingell, John D. - 7/17/2000 Rep Dixon, Julian C. - 7/12/2000
Rep Dooley, Calvin M. - 7/24/2000 Rep Doyle, Michael F. - 7/24/2000
Rep Dunn, Jennifer - 7/20/2000 Rep Emerson, Jo Ann - 7/24/2000
Rep Engel, Eliot L. - 7/19/2000 Rep Evans, Lane - 7/11/2000
Rep Farr, Sam - 7/19/2000 Rep Fattah, Chaka - 7/20/2000
Rep Filner, Bob - 7/17/2000 Rep Foley, Mark - 6/29/2000
Rep Forbes, Michael P. - 7/19/2000 Rep Ford, Harold, Jr. - 7/19/2000
Rep Fossella, Vito - 7/13/2000 Rep Fowler, Tillie - 7/17/2000
Rep Frank, Barney - 7/18/2000 Rep Franks, Bob - 7/24/2000
Rep Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. - 7/24/2000 Rep Frost, Martin - 7/11/2000
Rep Gallegly, Elton - 7/18/2000 Rep Ganske, Greg - 7/18/2000
Rep Gejdenson, Sam - 7/19/2000 Rep Gibbons, Jim - 7/20/2000
Rep Gilchrest, Wayne T. - 7/19/2000 Rep Gillmor, Paul E. - 7/19/2000
Rep Gilman, Benjamin A. - 7/19/2000 Rep Gonzalez, Charles A. - 7/13/2000
Rep Green, Gene - 7/17/2000 Rep Green, Mark - 7/17/2000
Rep Greenwood, James C. - 6/29/2000 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 7/17/2000
Rep Hall, Ralph M. - 7/10/2000 Rep Hall, Tony P. - 7/24/2000
Rep Hastings, Alcee L. - 7/20/2000 Rep Hilliard, Earl F. - 7/24/2000
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 6/29/2000 Rep Hinojosa, Ruben - 7/24/2000
Rep Hobson, David L. - 7/13/2000 Rep Hoeffel, Joseph M. - 7/20/2000
Rep Holden, Tim - 7/20/2000 Rep Holt, Rush D. - 7/20/2000
Rep Hooley, Darlene - 7/20/2000 Rep Horn, Stephen - 7/11/2000
Rep Hoyer, Steny H. - 7/24/2000 Rep Inslee, Jay - 7/17/2000
Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 7/24/2000 Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila - 7/20/2000
Rep Jefferson, William J. - 7/12/2000 Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice - 7/20/2000
Rep Johnson, Nancy L. - 7/19/2000 Rep Jones, Stephanie Tubbs - 7/20/2000
Rep Kaptur, Marcy - 7/20/2000 Rep Kelly, Sue W. - 7/13/2000
Rep Kennedy, Patrick J. - 7/24/2000 Rep Kildee, Dale E. - 7/20/2000
Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 7/13/2000 Rep Kind, Ron - 7/20/2000
Rep Kleczka, Gerald D. - 7/20/2000 Rep Klink, Ron - 7/24/2000
Rep Kolbe, Jim - 7/17/2000 Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. - 7/20/2000
Rep Kuykendall, Steven T. - 7/17/2000 Rep LaFalce, John J. - 7/24/2000
Rep LaHood, Ray - 7/19/2000 Rep Lampson, Nick - 7/18/2000
Rep Largent, Steve - 7/17/2000 Rep Larson, John B. - 7/13/2000
Rep LaTourette, Steve C. - 7/18/2000 Rep Lazio, Rick - 7/18/2000
Rep Leach, James A. - 7/17/2000 Rep Lee, Barbara - 7/18/2000
Rep Levin, Sander M. - 7/24/2000 Rep Lewis, Jerry - 7/19/2000
Rep Lewis, John - 7/24/2000 Rep Lipinski, William O. - 7/20/2000
Rep LoBiondo, Frank A. - 7/19/2000 Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 7/18/2000
Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 7/17/2000 Rep Maloney, James H. - 7/17/2000
Rep Markey, Edward J. - 7/24/2000 Rep Martinez, Matthew G. - 7/11/2000
Rep Matsui, Robert T. - 7/17/2000 Rep McCarthy, Carolyn - 7/20/2000
Rep McCarthy, Karen - 7/12/2000 Rep McCollum, Bill - 7/25/2000
Rep McDermott, Jim - 7/20/2000 Rep McGovern, James P. - 7/17/2000
Rep McHugh, John M. - 7/11/2000 Rep McIntosh, David M. - 7/18/2000
Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 7/24/2000 Rep McNulty, Michael R. - 7/10/2000
Rep Meehan, Martin T. - 7/18/2000 Rep Meek, Carrie P. - 7/24/2000
Rep Meeks, Gregory W. - 7/24/2000 Rep Menendez, Robert - 7/24/2000
Rep Millender-McDonald, Juanita - 7/13/2000 Rep Mink, Patsy T. - 7/10/2000
Rep Moakley, John Joseph - 7/24/2000 Rep Moore, Dennis - 7/24/2000
Rep Moran, James P. - 7/20/2000 Rep Morella, Constance A. - 6/29/2000
Rep Murtha, John P. - 7/24/2000 Rep Myrick, Sue - 7/19/2000
Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 7/18/2000 Rep Napolitano, Grace F. - 7/12/2000
Rep Neal, Richard E. - 7/19/2000 Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes - 7/20/2000
Rep Norwood, Charlie - 6/29/2000 Rep Olver, John W. - 7/24/2000
Rep Ortiz, Solomon P. - 7/20/2000 Rep Ose, Doug - 7/20/2000
Rep Owens, Major R. - 7/20/2000 Rep Packard, Ron - 7/19/2000
Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 7/10/2000 Rep Pascrell, Bill, Jr. - 7/20/2000
Rep Pastor, Ed - 7/24/2000 Rep Payne, Donald M. - 7/20/2000
Rep Peterson, Collin C. - 7/24/2000 Rep Phelps, David D. - 7/20/2000
Rep Pickering, Charles (Chip) - 7/24/2000 Rep Pomeroy, Earl - 7/24/2000
Rep Pryce, Deborah - 7/13/2000 Rep Quinn, Jack - 7/24/2000
Rep Rahall, Nick J., II - 7/18/2000 Rep Ramstad, Jim - 7/18/2000
Rep Rangel, Charles B. - 7/12/2000 Rep Reyes, Silvestre - 7/20/2000
Rep Reynolds, Thomas M. - 7/19/2000 Rep Rivers, Lynn N. - 7/13/2000
Rep Rodriguez, Ciro - 7/12/2000 Rep Roemer, Tim - 7/20/2000
Rep Rogan, James E. - 6/29/2000 Rep Romero-Barcelo, Carlos A. - 7/20/2000
Rep Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana - 7/17/2000 Rep Rothman, Steve R. - 7/24/2000
Rep Roybal-Allard, Lucille - 7/11/2000 Rep Rush, Bobby L. - 7/18/2000
Rep Sabo, Martin Olav - 7/18/2000 Rep Sanchez, Loretta - 7/12/2000
Rep Sanders, Bernard - 7/18/2000 Rep Sandlin, Max - 7/20/2000
Rep Sawyer, Tom - 7/18/2000 Rep Saxton, Jim - 7/24/2000
Rep Schaffer, Bob - 7/18/2000 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 7/18/2000
Rep Scott, Robert C. - 7/24/2000 Rep Serrano, Jose E. - 7/10/2000
Rep Sessions, Pete - 7/24/2000 Rep Shadegg, John B. - 6/29/2000
Rep Shaw, E. Clay, Jr. - 7/24/2000 Rep Shays, Christopher - 6/29/2000
Rep Sherman, Brad - 7/18/2000 Rep Shimkus, John - 7/10/2000
Rep Skeen, Joe - 7/24/2000 Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh - 7/18/2000
Rep Smith, Adam - 7/19/2000 Rep Smith, Christopher H. - 7/19/2000
Rep Smith, Lamar - 7/24/2000 Rep Stearns, Cliff - 6/29/2000
Rep Stenholm, Charles W. - 7/24/2000 Rep Strickland, Ted - 7/11/2000
Rep Stupak, Bart - 6/29/2000 Rep Sweeney, John E. - 7/20/2000
Rep Tancredo, Thomas G. - 7/19/2000 Rep Tauzin, W. J. (Billy) - 7/24/2000
Rep Thompson, Bennie G. - 7/20/2000 Rep Thompson, Mike - 7/11/2000
Rep Thurman, Karen L. - 7/19/2000 Rep Tiahrt, Todd - 7/13/2000
Rep Tierney, John F. - 7/24/2000 Rep Towns, Edolphus - 7/19/2000
Rep Traficant, James A., Jr. - 7/24/2000 Rep Turner, Jim - 7/20/2000
Rep Udall, Mark - 7/20/2000 Rep Udall, Tom - 7/19/2000
Rep Underwood, Robert A. - 7/24/2000 Rep Upton, Fred - 7/12/2000
Rep Wamp, Zach - 7/25/2000 Rep Waters, Maxine - 7/19/2000
Rep Watkins, Wes - 7/20/2000 Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 6/29/2000
Rep Weiner, Anthony D. - 7/24/2000 Rep Weldon, Curt - 7/24/2000
Rep Weldon, Dave - 6/29/2000 Rep Wexler, Robert - 7/17/2000
Rep Weygand, Robert A. - 6/29/2000 Rep Whitfield, Ed - 7/13/2000
Rep Wilson, Heather - 7/19/2000 Rep Wu, David - 7/24/2000
Rep Wynn, Albert Russell - 7/12/2000

SUMMARY AS OF:
7/25/2000--Passed House, amended.    (There is 1 other summary)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Ryan White CARE Act Amendments of 2000 - Title I: Emergency Relief for Areas with Substantial Need for Services - Subtitle A: HIV Health Services Planning Councils - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require that an HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) planning council reflect the demographics of the population of individuals with HIV disease (currently, the demographics of the epidemic) in the eligible area involved. Modifies requirements regarding council composition, including requiring representatives of former prisoners. Requires that at least 33 percent of the council be people who: (1) are receiving HIV-related services pursuant to a grant under provisions relating to emergency relief for areas with a substantial need for services (substantial need grant); (2) are not officers, employees, consultants, or representatives of any entity that receives substantial need grant amounts; and (3) reflect the demographics of the population of individuals with HIV disease.

(Sec. 102) Modifies council duties, including regarding: (1) determining the size, demographics, and needs of the HIV disease population; (2) council establishment of fund allocation priorities; and (3) coordination with Federal grantees that provide HIV-related services in the area. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) develop epidemiologic measures for establishing the number of individuals with HIV disease who are not receiving HIV-related health services, for carrying out council duties, and for carrying out provisions relating to substantial need grant applications; and (2) provide to the chief elected official receiving a substantial need grant guidelines and materials for training council members regarding council duties.

(Sec. 103) Requires that council meetings and records be open to the public, subject to exception.

Subtitle B: Type and Distribution of Grants - Makes permanent provisions requiring expedited disbursement of certain substantial need grant amounts. Requires, after fiscal year 2004, that the substantial need grant amount formula use the number of cases of HIV disease in the most recent year rather than the number of cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the most recent ten years, but until FY 2007 conditions that change on the Secretary's determination that there is sufficiently accurate and reliable data on HIV disease cases from all eligible areas, requiring the Secretary to consider: (1) the findings of a study mandated by title V of this Act; (2) the fiscal impact of using or of not using that data; and (3) the impact of the use of that data on the organization and delivery of HIV-related services. Modifies requirements regarding increases in the amount of a substantial need grant under expedited disbursement provisions.

(Sec. 112) Requires that the amount of supplemental substantial need grants be determined by the Secretary based on a weighting of specified factors, with severe need counting one-third. Includes the current HIV disease prevalence, an increasing need for services, and unmet need for services as factors the Secretary must consider in determining severe need. Directs the Secretary, in determining the required factors, to develop a mechanism to use national, quantitative incidence data by 18 months after enactment of this Act (currently, by May 20, 1998). Requires mechanism modification based on the findings of a study mandated by title V of this Act. Requires that supplemental substantial need grants be allocated according to the local demographic incidence of AIDS, including allocations for services for infants, children, youth, women, and families (currently, for infants, children, women, and families) with HIV disease. Removes provisions basing the amount of substantial need grants on substantial need grant applications.

Subtitle C: Other Provisions - Requires that substantial need grant funds be used, among other purposes, for: (1) outreach to identify individuals with HIV disease who are not receiving HIV-related services; and (2) early intervention services. Requires that substantial need grants be used to provide health and support services to infants, children, youth, and women (currently, infants, children, and women) with HIV disease in the same ratio as those groups with HIV disease bear to those groups in the general population.

Requires that the chief elected official of a substantial need grant-receiving area establish a quality management program to assess whether HIV health services under the substantial need grant are consistent with the most recent Public Health Service guidelines.

(Sec. 123) Requires that official to ensure that the area's planning council: (1) reviews existing, available data on expenditures by substantial need grant recipient entities from their overall budget for administrative costs; and (2) makes a determination whether the financial compensation of any of those entity's officers or employees exceeds that of the official.

Title II: Care Grant Program - Subtitle A: General Grant Provisions - Requires that grants to States to improve the quality, availability and organization of health care and support services for individuals with HIV disease (care grants) be used to provide health and support services to infants, children, youth, and women (currently, infants, children, and women) with HIV disease in the same ratio as those groups with HIV disease bear to those groups in the general population.

(Sec. 202) Allows care grants to be used for support services, outreach activities, early intervention, and quality management.

(Sec. 203) Modifies requirements regarding grants to establish HIV care consortia.

(Sec. 204) Allows a State to meet a requirement to use a portion of its care grant to provide therapeutics to treat HIV disease or prevent related health deterioration (including prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections) by paying for health insurance or plans whose coverage includes a full range of such therapeutics and primary care.

(Sec. 205) Requires care grant applications to contain determinations of the size, demographics, and needs of the population of individuals with HIV disease in the State. Modifies requirements regarding the comprehensive plan. Requires the public health agency that administers care grants for a State to engage in a public advisory planning process.

(Sec. 206) Doubles, subject to appropriations, the minimum care grant allotment to each State and U.S. territory. Requires, after fiscal year 2004, that the care grant amount formula use the number of cases of HIV disease in the most recent year rather than the number of cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the most recent ten years, but until FY 2007 conditions that change on the Secretary's determination that there is sufficiently accurate and reliable data on HIV disease cases. Provides for increases in the formula amount.

Requires, if an appropriations Act provides an amount exclusively for treatment drug grants, that two percent of that exclusive amount be reserved for supplemental grants to States whose HIV population's need is greater than the quantities available under treatment drug grants from the remaining unreserved 98 percent.

Adds the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau to the list of U.S. territories. Adds the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to the list of territories for minimum allotment provisions but keeps it in the list of States for other care grant provisions.

(Sec. 207) Replaces provisions mandating coordination by specified Federal agencies of Federal HIV programs with provisions directing the Secretary to make grants to States to supplement care grants for comprehensive services for communities that have a severe need for supplemental financial assistance to combat the HIV epidemic. Provides for funding for the supplemental grants.

Subtitle B: Provisions Concerning Pregnancy and Perinatal Transmission of HIV - Removes provisions prohibiting (after testing of pregnant women and newborns has become a routine practice in U.S. health care) care grants to a State unless the State meets certain requirements regarding such testing.

(Sec. 212) Adds HIV disease treatment services to the uses for which the Secretary may make a grant to a State that is following the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding HIV counseling and voluntary testing for pregnant women. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits using care grant appropriations for grants under this section.

(Sec. 213) Directs the Secretary to provide for a study and report to appropriate congressional committees regarding: (1) the number of newborns with HIV born in the United States in the most recent year for which the information is available; (2) barriers that prevent or discourage an obstetrician from routinely offering pregnant women an HIV test and routinely testing newborns when the mother's HIV status is unknown; and (3) recommendations for each State for reducing perinatal HIV transmission. Requires States to make reasonable progress toward meeting the recommendations.

Subtitle C: Certain Partner Notification Programs - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States for partner counseling and referral services, provided the State meets certain requirements regarding: (1) partner notification and (for the partner and the infected individual) testing, counseling, and referral; (2) health entity reporting of positive test results to the State; (3) reporting to the CDC regarding partner notification; and (4) State cooperation with the CDC national partner notification. Prohibits grants to a State after fiscal year 2003 unless the State's reporting system for HIV cases produces sufficiently accurate and reliable data. Authorizes appropriations.

Title III: Early Intervention Services - Subtitle A: Formula Grants for States - Repeals provisions mandating formula grants to States for outpatient early intervention services regarding HIV disease.

Subtitle B: Categorical Grants - Requires giving preference to rural or underserved areas in making currently-authorized categorical grants for outpatient early intervention services. Allows planning grants to be used, subject to limitation, to assist the recipients to expand their capacity to provide services, including early intervention services, in low income communities and affected subpopulations that are underserved.

Subtitle C: General Provisions - Requires that the counseling that categorical grant recipients are required to provide to HIV-infected individuals emphasize that it is the duty of infected individuals to disclose their status to their sexual and needle-sharing partners, provide advice on how to make the disclosures and emphasize that it is the infected individual's continuing duty to avoid behaviors that expose others to HIV.

(Sec. 322) Increases the percentage limit on administrative expenses. Requires recipients to establish a quality management program to assess the extent to which medical services are consistent with Public Health Service guidelines for treatment of HIV disease and related opportunistic infections.

Title IV: Other Programs and Activities - Subtitle A: Certain Programs for Research, Demonstrations, or Training - Replaces a requirement that, with regard to grants for providing opportunities for women, infants, children, and youth to participate in HIV research and for providing to those groups outpatient health care and additional services, that a significant number of individuals in those groups be participating in research with a requirement that the grant applicant demonstrate linkages to research and how access to research is being offered to patients. Directs the Secretary to examine the distribution and availability of research regarding grantees to enhance and expand HIV-related research, especially in underrepresented communities. Requires grantees to implement a quality management program. Authorizes appropriations.

(Sec. 402) Includes, as a use of currently-authorized grants and contracts for training health personnel: (1) training in prenatal and other gynecological care for women with HIV disease; and (2) developing protocols for the medical care of such women. Directs the Secretary to implement a strategy for the dissemination of HIV treatment information to care providers and patients.

Adds accredited dental hygiene programs as possible recipients of currently-authorized grants with respect to oral health care to (sic) patients with HIV disease. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes grants to dental schools, post-doctoral dental education programs, and accredited dental hygiene programs that partner with community-based dentists to provide care to HIV patients in underserved areas. Authorizes appropriations.

Authorizes appropriations for grants and contracts to assist public and nonprofit private entities and schools and academic health science centers to train health personnel, train faculty, and develop and disseminate curricula and resource materials regarding the care of HIV patients and prevention of HIV infection among at risk individuals.

Subtitle B: General Provisions in Title XXVI - Extends the authorization of appropriations for grants and contracts to evaluate programs carried out under title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act (HIV Health Care Services Program).

(Sec. 412) Authorizes appropriations for collecting and providing data for program planning and evaluation under title XXVI.

(Sec. 413) Adds the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Health Care Financing Administration to the list of agencies (currently, the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) charged with coordinating the planning, funding, and implementation (currently, coordinating the planning of the funding) of Federal HIV programs to enhance continuity of care and prevention services (currently, continuity of care). Requires that State, local, or private entities receiving title XXVI funds enhance continuity of care and prevention services (currently, continuity of care).

(Sec. 414) Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to Congress a plan for the medical case management of and the provision of support services to individuals who had HIV disease on their date of release from the Federal or State penal system.

(Sec. 415) Authorizes the Secretary to reduce title XXVI grants to a State or political subdivision if the State or subdivision fails to prepare audits.

(Sec. 416) Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop and submit to Congress a plan for coordinating the disbursement of appropriations for substantial need grants with the disbursement for care grants; (2) within two years after enactment of this Act, implement the disbursement plan, notwithstanding any title XXVI provision inconsistent with the plan; (3) determine whether administration of those grants by the Secretary and grantee compliance efficiency would be improved by requiring biennial rather than annual applications; (4) develop and submit to Congress a plan for simplifying the application process for those grants; and (5) within two years after enactment of this Act, implement the simplified application plan, notwithstanding any title XXVI provision inconsistent with the plan.

(Sec. 417) Removes provisions directing the Secretary to develop and implement a method for adjusting the percentages allocated to substantial need grants and care grants to account for substantial need grants to new areas and other relevant factors.

Authorizes appropriations for substantial need and care grants.

Title V: General Provisions - Directs the Secretary to provide for studies, and report to the appropriate congressional committees, on: (1) whether the surveillance system of each State provides for the reporting of HIV infection cases in a way that provides information on the number and demographic characteristics of the cases that is sufficiently accurate for the formula grants under substantial need and care grant provisions and, if not, recommendations for improvements; and (2) the appropriate epidemiological measures and their relationship to the financing and delivery of primary care and health related support services for low income, uninsured, and underinsured individuals with HIV disease.

(Sec. 502) Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand, intensify, and coordinate research and other NIH activities regarding development of reliable and affordable HIV tests that can be rapidly administered and whose results can be rapidly obtained (rapid HIV tests). Authorizes appropriations.

Directs the Secretary: (1) to report to appropriate congressional committees on the progress made toward, and barriers to, the premarket review and commercial distribution of rapid HIV tests; and (2) promptly after rapid HIV test commercial distribution begins, to establish or update guidelines for States, hospitals, and other entities regarding the availability of those tests for administration to pregnant women in labor or late stage pregnancy and whose HIV status is unknown.

Title VI: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective dates for this Act and its amendments.