Allows Indian Health Service scholarship and loan recipients to meet their service obligations through half-time clinical practice, with the required service period lengthened to make up for the reduced hours.

• Lets scholarship recipients meet their service obligation through half-time practice in the Service, in tribal or Title V programs, or in qualifying private practice in a shortage area, if they agree in writing to double the obligated period.
• Lets loan repayment recipients choose 4 years of half-time clinical service, or 2 years of half-time service with loan payments set at 50 percent of the full-time amount.
• Requires that breach-of-contract damages for half-time service be calculated by converting the service performed into its full-time equivalent.
• Short title: IHS Workforce Parity Act of 2025.

• Indian Affairs Committee (Senate)

Native Americans