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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 935 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a health care 
workforce innovation program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 4, 2025 
Mr. GARBARINO (for himself, Ms. SCHRIER, Mr. VALADAO, and Ms. CRAIG) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on En-
ergy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for 
a health care workforce innovation program. 
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 ‘‘Health Care Workforce 
Innovation Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE INNOVATION PRO-
GRAM. 
Section 755(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 294e(b)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(5)(A) Supporting and developing new innova-
tive, community-driven approaches for the education 
and training of allied health professionals, including 
those described in subparagraph (F)(i), with an em-
phasis on expanding the supply of such professionals 
located in, and meeting the needs of, underserved 
communities and rural areas. Grants or contracts 
under this paragraph shall be awarded through a 
new program (referred to as the ‘Health Care Work-
force Innovation Program’ or in this paragraph as 
the ‘Program’). 
‘‘(B) To be eligible to receive a grant or con-
tract under the Program an entity shall— 
‘‘(i) be a Federally qualified health center 
(as defined in section 1905(l)(2)(B) of the So-
cial Security Act), a State-level association or 
other consortium that represents and is com-
prised of Federally qualified health centers, a 
certified rural health clinic that meets the re-
quirements of section 334, or an accredited, 
nonprofit post-secondary vocational program 
that trains allied health professionals to work in 
primary care settings; and 
‘‘(ii) submit to the Secretary an application 
that, at a minimum, contains— 
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‘‘(I) a description of how all trainees 
will be trained in accredited training pro-
grams either directly or through partner-
ships with public or nonprofit private enti-
ties, such as schools of allied health; 
‘‘(II) a description of the community- 
driven health care workforce innovation 
model to be carried out under the grant or 
contract, including the specific allied health 
professions to be funded; 
‘‘(III) the geographic service area that 
will be served, including quantitative data, 
if available, showing that such particular 
area faces a shortage of allied health pro-
fessionals and lacks access to health care; 
‘‘(IV) a description of the benefits 
provided to each health care professional 
trained under the proposed model during 
the education and training phase; 
‘‘(V) a description of the experience 
that the applicant has in the recruitment, 
retention, and promotion of the well-being 
of workers and volunteers; 
‘‘(VI) a description of how the fund-
ing awarded under the Program will sup-
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plement rather than supplant existing 
funding; 
‘‘(VII) a description of the scalability 
and replicability of the community-driven 
approach to be funded under the Program; 
‘‘(VIII) a description of the infra-
structure, outreach and communication 
plan, and other program support costs re-
quired to operationalize the proposed 
model; and 
‘‘(IX) any other information, as the 
Secretary determines appropriate. 
‘‘(C)(i) An entity shall use amounts received 
under a grant or contract awarded under the Pro-
gram to carry out the innovative, community-driven 
model described in the application under subpara-
graph (B). Such amounts may be used for launching 
new or expanding existing innovative health care 
professional partnerships, including the following 
specific uses: 
‘‘(I) Establishing or expanding a partner-
ship between such entity and 1 or more high 
schools, accredited public or nonprofit private 
vocational-technical schools, accredited public or 
nonprofit private 2-year colleges, area health 
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education centers, and entities with clinical set-
tings for the provision of education and training 
opportunities not available at the grantee’s fa-
cilities. 
‘‘(II) Providing education and training 
programs to improve allied health professionals’ 
readiness in settings that serve underserved 
communities and rural areas; encouraging stu-
dents from underserved and disadvantaged 
backgrounds and former patients to consider 
careers in health care, and better reflecting and 
meeting community needs; providing education 
and training programs for individuals to work 
in patient-centered, team-based, community- 
driven health care models that include integra-
tion with other clinical practitioners and train-
ing in cultural and linguistic competence; pro-
viding pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship 
programs for health care technical, support, 
and entry-level occupations, particularly for 
those enrolled in dual or concurrent enrollment 
programs; building a preceptorship training-to- 
practice model for medical, behavioral health, 
oral health, and public health disciplines in an 
integrated, community-driven setting; providing 
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and expanding internships, career ladders, and 
development opportunities for health care pro-
fessionals, including new and existing staff; or 
investing in training equipment, supplies, and 
limited renovations or retrofitting of training 
space needed for grantees to carry out their 
particular model. 
‘‘(ii) Amounts received under a grant or con-
tract awarded under the Program shall not be used 
to support construction costs or to supplant funding 
from existing programs that support the applicant’s 
health workforce. 
‘‘(iii) Models funded under the Program shall 
be for a duration of at least 3 years. 
‘‘(D) In awarding grants or contracts under the 
Program, the Secretary shall give priority to appli-
cants that will use grant or contract funds to sup-
port workforce innovation models that increase the 
number of individuals from underserved and dis-
advantaged backgrounds working in such health care 
professions, improve access to health care (including 
medical, behavioral health and oral health) in under-
served communities, or demonstrate that the model 
can be replicated in other underserved communities 
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in a cost-efficient and effective manner to achieve 
the purposes of the Program. 
‘‘(E) An entity that receives a grant or contract 
under the Program shall provide periodic reports to 
the Secretary detailing the findings and outcomes of 
the innovative, community-driven model carried out 
under the grant. Such reports shall contain informa-
tion in a manner and at such times as determined 
appropriate by the Secretary. 
‘‘(F) In this paragraph: 
‘‘(i) The term ‘allied health professional’ 
includes individuals who provide clinical support 
services, including medical assistants, dental as-
sistants, dental hygienists, dental therapists, 
pharmacy technicians, physical therapists, phys-
ical therapist assistants, and health care inter-
preters; individuals providing non-clinical sup-
port, such as billing and coding professionals 
and health information technology profes-
sionals; dieticians; medical technologists; emer-
gency medical technicians; community health 
workers; health education specialists; health 
care paraprofessionals; and peer support spe-
cialists. 
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‘‘(ii) The term ‘rural area’ has the mean-
ing given such term by the Administrator of the 
Health Resources and Services Administration. 
‘‘(iii) The term ‘underserved communities’ 
means areas, population groups, and facilities 
designated as health professional shortage areas 
under section 332, medically underserved areas 
as defined under section 330I(a), or medically 
underserved populations as defined under sec-
tion 330(b)(3). 
‘‘(G)(i) There are authorized to be appropriated 
such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal 
years 2026 through 2028, to carry out this para-
graph, to remain available until expended. 
‘‘(ii) A grant or contract provided under the 
Program shall not exceed $2,500,000 for a grant pe-
riod.’’. 
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