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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6539 
To permit the use of health care workforce platforms during declared 
emergencies, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 9, 2025 
Mr. ROUZER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To permit the use of health care workforce platforms during 
declared emergencies, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Strategic Teams for 
Organized Response Mobilization Act’’ or the ‘‘STORM 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. USE OF HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE PLATFORMS 
DURING STATE OF EMERGENCY. 
Title V of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5191 et seq.) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 504. HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE PLATFORMS. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) 
EMERGENCY.—The 
term 
‘emergency’ 
means an emergency declared under section 501. 
‘‘(2) HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE PLATFORM.— 
The term ‘health care workforce platform’ means a 
private entity technology platform that— 
‘‘(A) partners with credentialed inde-
pendent contractor health care workers; 
‘‘(B) has the capability to facilitate health 
care workforce surge capacity during an emer-
gency; and 
‘‘(C) is self-sustaining during times other 
than those in which an emergency is declared. 
‘‘(3) 
INDEPENDENT
CONTRACTOR
HEALTH 
CARE WORKER.—The term ‘independent contractor 
health care worker’ means a health care professional 
who— 
‘‘(A) holds a valid license to practice as a 
health care professional in not less than 1 
State; 
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‘‘(B) provides health care services on a 
contractual basis, rather than as an employee of 
a health care facility or organization; 
‘‘(C) is credentialed and verified by a 
health care workforce platform; and 
‘‘(D) is engaged to respond to health care 
needs during an emergency. 
‘‘(b) PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP.— 
‘‘(1) CERTIFICATION.—The President may cer-
tify health care workforce platforms as eligible to 
enter into an agreement under paragraph (2). 
‘‘(2) VOLUNTARY AGREEMENTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The President may 
enter into an agreement with a health care 
workforce platform certified under paragraph 
(1) under which the President may use the 
health care workforce platform for the duration 
of any emergency declared during the term of 
the agreement. 
‘‘(B) TERM.—The duration of the term of 
an agreement entered into under subparagraph 
(A) shall be not less than 1 year. 
‘‘(c) FACILITATION
OF STATE LICENSURE WAIV-
ERS.— 
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—During any emergency, the 
President may coordinate with States to facilitate a 
waiver of licensure requirements of the State for 
out-of-state independent contractor health care 
workers responding to an emergency through a 
health care workforce platform with which the Presi-
dent has entered into an agreement under subsection 
(b)(2) if— 
‘‘(A) the services of the independent con-
tractor health care worker are being used by 
the President or the State or a local govern-
ment affected by the emergency for the purpose 
of responding to the emergency; and 
‘‘(B) the independent contractor health 
care worker holds a valid license to practice as 
a health care worker in not less than 1 State. 
‘‘(2) PROCEDURES AND CRITERIA.—The Presi-
dent shall establish model procedures and criteria 
for the waiver of State licensure requirements under 
paragraph (1) that a State affected by an emergency 
may adopt at the time of the emergency that— 
‘‘(A) include requirements that inde-
pendent contractor health care workers dem-
onstrate qualifications and undergo background 
checks; 
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