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Reauthorizes and sets multi-year authorization amounts for a range of health professions education and workforce programs for fiscal years 2026–2030. It updates funding levels for Centers of Excellence, primary care training, dental training, AHEC, geriatrics training, public health workforce development, extends the National Center for Health Care Workforce Analysis through 2030, and makes related technical updates to scholarship, loan repayment, and fellowship provisions. Several numeric amounts in the provided text appear garbled or incomplete and could not be fully verified.
The bill would authorize multi-year federal investments to grow and better target the health workforce—improving access for rural, underserved, and older patients and preserving workforce data—while increasing federal spending and carrying drafting/appropriations uncertainty that could limit or delay those benefits.
Patients—especially in rural and underserved communities—and trainees will likely see better access to primary care, geriatrics, dental, and public-health services because the bill authorizes sustained multi-year funding (FY2026–2030) for primary care training, geriatrics, dental training, public health workforce development, and Area Health Education Centers.
Area Health Education Centers and other training investments strengthen the health workforce pipeline and rural/underserved clinician supply by providing predictable program support for educator and trainee programs.
Extending the National Center for Health Care Workforce Analysis preserves federal capacity to collect and analyze workforce data, supporting better state and system planning.
The authorizations increase federal spending and could contribute to higher deficits or require future offsets (spending cuts or revenue increases).
The draft contains garbled/missing funding figures for several lines, creating uncertainty for institutions, trainees, and workforce planners trying to budget and plan programs.
If appropriations fall short of the authorized amounts, the intended expansion of training capacity may not occur, leaving unmet demand for training slots and limiting improvements in care access.
Introduced June 30, 2025 by Janice D. Schakowsky · Last progress June 30, 2025