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The bill directs modest federal funds to expand and diversify hands-on and telehealth abortion training—improving clinician supply and access—while imposing modest taxpayer costs, administrative conditions, and requiring some trainees in restrictive states to travel or relocate for clinical experience.
Clinical students, residents, and advanced practice clinicians will gain increased hands-on abortion care training through funded clinical placements, curricula, instructor development, and transition-to-practice supports, expanding the trained abortion-care workforce and potentially increasing the number of clinicians providing care.
Trainees from minority‑serving institutions and from states with limited training opportunities will receive targeted funding and placements, likely increasing provider diversity and improving access to abortion services in underserved communities.
Students and low-income trainees will receive scholarships and stipends that reduce financial barriers to pursuing abortion-care training, making it easier for financially constrained individuals to enter the workforce.
Trainees and students located in states with abortion restrictions may need to travel or relocate to 'covered States' to obtain required hands-on clinical training, imposing logistical, financial, and access burdens on those individuals.
All taxpayers will fund approximately $25 million per year (FY2027–FY2031) in new federal spending to support this targeted workforce training program.
Grantee institutions face added administrative burden and compliance costs because of annual confidential reporting requirements and a 'supplement, not supplant' rule that can complicate budgeting across federal training funds.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes HHS/HRSA grants to expand clinical education and placement in abortion care, with $25M/year for FY2027–FY2031.
Creates a new HHS/HRSA grant and contract program to expand clinical education and post-training placement in abortion care for health professions students, residents, and advanced practice clinicians who train in states where comprehensive abortion training is permitted. Eligible recipients include accredited health professions schools, academic health centers, and nonprofit safety-net providers; priority is given to programs in permissive states, those training learners from restricted states, and minority‑serving institutions. Authorizes $25 million per year for fiscal years 2027–2031, allows funds to support clinical rotations, telehealth, curricular integration, instructor training, scholarships and transition-to-practice support, and requires annual confidential reports from awardees to HHS and annual summaries to Congress. Funds must supplement, not supplant, existing Title VII/VIII PHS Act funding.
Official title: Provide for the establishment of an education program to expand abortion care training and access.
Introduced June 24, 2026 by Tammy Baldwin · Last progress June 24, 2026