Bill Details
HR.958 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-04 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced Date
2025-02-04
Policy Area
Health
Committees
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Sponsors
Cosponsors
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This bill would extend and slightly increase federal funding for programs that help train more primary care doctors and improve primary care education. It keeps support in place for grants and contracts used by medical schools and other training programs, and it raises the yearly funding level so these programs can continue through 2030.
- It changes the funding period from 2021–2025 to 2025–2030.
- It increases the annual amount from $48.924 million to $49.924 million.
- The money is for grants and contracts that support primary care training and improvement.
Official Summaries
Train More Primary Care Doctors Act of 2025
This bill reauthorizes through FY2030 the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Primary Care Training and Enhancement program, which provides various grants to entities such as hospitals and schools for enhancing training and education for the primary care workforce.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 958 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 958
To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize funding for
grants and contracts for primary care training and enhancement, and for
other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 4, 2025
Mr. Nunn of Iowa (for himself and Mr. Cleaver) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
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A BILL
To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize funding for
grants and contracts for primary care training and enhancement, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Train More Primary Care Doctors Act
of 2025''.
SEC. 2. PRIMARY CARE TRAINING AND ENHANCEMENT.
Section 747(c)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
293k(c)(1)) is amended by striking ``$48,924,000 for each of fiscal
years 2021 through 2025'' and inserting ``$49,924,000 for each of
fiscal years 2025 through 2030''.
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