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Introduced April 22, 2026 by Timothy Michael Kaine · Last progress April 22, 2026
The bill channels modest federal funding to expand primary care clinical training, supports, and community-integrated care—boosting the primary care workforce and access—while increasing federal spending, imposing administrative and funding restrictions on some providers, and potentially limiting scale or specialty training opportunities.
Health-professional students: receive more primary care clinical placements and supports (including housing/transportation), increasing access to and completion of clinical training in community settings.
Primary care providers and clinical staff: get funding to recruit, retain, and pay preceptors, strengthening the primary care training pipeline and helping alleviate preceptor and faculty shortages.
Residents of shortage and disadvantaged regions: benefit from prioritized funding and program design that expands workforce capacity where regional labor shortages and disadvantaged trainees are concentrated.
Rural communities and understaffed areas: may still face unaddressed provider shortages because the program limits individual grants and overall program caps, constraining the scale of investments.
Small community clinics and eligible organizations: face added administrative burdens and reduced funding flexibility because of training-site requirements and prohibitions on receiving certain other grants.
Taxpayers: will fund new federal spending to support the program (specified as $10M in FY2027, $25M in FY2028, $50M in FY2029 and continuing amounts thereafter), increasing budgetary outlays.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Establishes an HHS grant program to create and expand community-based primary care team education centers, funding training, preceptors, student supports, and innovative staffing models (grants up to $1M/year, 5 years).
Creates a new HHS grant program to establish and expand community-based primary care team education centers that train health professional students in multidisciplinary primary care settings. Grants support partnerships with colleges and health organizations, strengthen preceptor capacity through new employment and compensation models, provide student supports (like housing and transportation), and integrate nontraditional team members such as community health workers. Awards may run up to five years and are capped at $1,000,000 per year per grantee.