104 STAT. 2320
PUBLIC LAW 101-527—NOV. 6, 1990
"(i) the school will establish an arrangement with 1
or more public or nonprofit private institutions of
higher education whose enrollment of students has
traditionally included a significant number of Native
Americans, the purpose of which arrangement will be
to cany out a program—
(I) to identify Native American students of the
institution who are interested in a career in the
health profession or professions involved; and
"(ID to facilitate the educational preparation of
such students to enter the health professions
school; and
"(ii) the health professions school will make efforts to
recruit Native American students, including students
who have participated in the undergraduate program
carried out under arremgements established by the
school pursuant to subparagraph (A), and will assist
Native American students regarding the completion
of the educational requirements for a degree from the
health professions school.
"(5) OTHER CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE. — The conditions specified
in this paragraph are that a health professions school has an
enrollment of underrepresented minorities above the national
average for such enrollments of health professions schools.
" (d) DESIGNATION AS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE. —
"(1) IN GENERAL.—Any health professions school receiving a
grant under subsection (a) and meeting the conditions described
in paragraph (2) or (5) of subsection (c) shall, for purposes of this
section, be designated by the Secretary as a Center of Excellence in Minority Health Professions Education.
"(2) HISPANIC CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE.— Any health professions school receiving a grant under subsection (a) and
meeting the conditions described in subsection (c)(3) shall, for
purposes of this section, be designated by the Secretary as a
Hispanic Center of Excellence in Health Professions Education.
"(3) NATIVE AMERICAN CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE.— Any health
professions school receiving a grant under subsection (a) and
meeting the conditions described in subsection (c)(4) shall, for
purposes of this section, be designated by the Secretary as a
Native American Center of Excellence in Health Professions
Education.
"(e) DURATION OF GRANT.— The period during which payments are
made under a grant under subsection (a) may not exceed 3 years.
Such payments shall be subject to annual approval by the Secretary
and to the availability of appropriations for the fiscal year involved
to make the payments.
"(f) MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT.—
" (1) NON-FEDERAL FUNDS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. —With respect to
activities for which a grant under subsection (a) is authorized to
be expended, the Secretary may not, in the case of a public
health professions school, make such a grant to the school for
any fiscal year unless the school agrees to maintain expenditures of non-Federal amounts for such activities at a level equal
to not less than the level of such expenditures maintained by
the school for the fiscal year preceding the first fiscal year for
which the school applies after fiscal year 1990 to receive such a
grant.
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