Healthcare Workforce

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

Evidence log

• 2025-07-24 — Equitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act: 2025 — Equitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act (Senate, introduced): would recognize pharmacists as Medicare-billable providers for a defined set of infectious disease testing and treatment services during declared PHEs, expanding pharmacists’ role in the federally-reimbursed clinical workforce where state law allows. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-11 — To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to require public institutions of higher education that receive grants under the Medical Student Education program to include training for medical students relating to menopause in the curriculums of such institutions, and for other purposes.: 2025 — Menopause curriculum bill (introduced): would require public medical schools receiving HHS Medical Student Education program grants to include menopause training in their curriculum, adding a condition-specific curriculum mandate lever tied to a federal medical education grant program. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-03-19 — Geriatrics Workforce Improvement Act: 2025 — Geriatrics Workforce Improvement Act (introduced): would reauthorize through FY2030 two existing HRSA geriatrics training programs (Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program and Geriatrics Academic Career Awards) that train health professionals and junior faculty to care for older adults, extending a condition-specific pipeline alongside dementia provider training (HR3747) and Older Americans Act direct care workforce proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2023-07-11 — Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act: Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (Senate, introduced): would fund HHS palliative-care and hospice education programs, fellowships, and academic career awards, adding a palliative/hospice-specific track to the clinician workforce pipeline alongside dementia provider training (HR3747) and other condition-specific training proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-05-05 — Midwives for MOMS Act of 2025: 2025 — Midwives for MOMS Act of 2025 (S1599, introduced, referred to Senate HELP): would expand federal midwifery education programs to grow the maternal health workforce, adding a midwifery-specific pipeline lever alongside SAFE Training for OB-GYNs (HR9441), Rural Obstetrics Readiness Act, and Reproductive Health Care Training Act proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-03-04 — Community TEAMS Act of 2026: 2026 — Community TEAMS Act of 2026 (S3989, 119th Congress, introduced and referred to Senate HELP): Senate companion/successor to the House Community TEAMS Act of 2025 (HR3885) already tracked, adding another community-based team care workforce proposal; substantive mechanism not detailed in the referral record. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-04-23 — Workforce Data Enhancement Act: 2026 — Workforce Data Enhancement Act (S4382, 119th Congress, read twice and referred to Senate HELP): title-and-referral-only record signals a potential data-infrastructure lever for federal healthcare workforce measurement; substantive scope not yet detailed. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-04-21 — Hazard Pay for Health Care Heroes Act: 2026 — Hazard Pay for Health Care Heroes Act (S4357, introduced, referred to Senate HELP): would authorize hazard pay for health care workers, adding a compensation-based retention/recognition lever to the workforce policy track alongside Fair Wages for Home Care Workers (HR7917) and VA critical-skill/pay-cap proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-04-16 — Restoring Rights of Medical Residents Act: 2026 — Restoring Rights of Medical Residents Act (S4336, 119th Congress, read twice and referred to Senate Judiciary): would restore certain legal rights of medical residents, adding a labor-rights lever specific to the GME resident workforce alongside REDI Act (HR2028) loan deferral and FAIR Act GME transparency proposals already tracked; substantive scope not yet detailed in the referral record. (novelty: 3)
• 2025-09-19 — HEADACHE Act: 2025-09-19 — HEADACHE Act (HR5536, 119th Congress, introduced and referred to House Energy and Commerce): short title only in the referral record; substantive scope not yet available, flagged here as potentially workforce-adjacent pending text release. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-08-04 — Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals (IPPS) and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Rates; Requirements for Quality Programs; Other Policy Changes; and Adoption of Updated Versions of Certain Health Information Technology Standards: 2026 — FY 2027 IPPS/LTCH PPS Final Rule includes finalized graduate medical education (GME) policy changes affecting Medicare-funded residency training, a core lever of the physician workforce pipeline. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-02-13 — Protecting America’s Seniors’ Access to Care Act: 2026 — Protecting America’s Seniors’ Access to Care Act (introduced): would bar CMS from administering or enforcing the May 2024 LTC facility minimum nurse staffing rule (24/7 RN, hours-per-resident-day standards) and its Medicaid direct-care-worker payment reporting requirement, removing a federal floor on nursing home staffing levels for the LTC workforce. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-11 — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2027: 2026-06-11 — Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations FY2027 (HR9260, placed on Union Calendar): would fund FY2027 HRSA workforce programs (Title VII/VIII, National Health Service Corps, nursing and allied health training) and related Department of Labor and Education workforce activities that support the clinician pipeline. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-28 — Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2026: 2026 — Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2026 (S1874, introduced): would reauthorize federal nursing workforce development programs under Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act, extending the core statutory funding vehicle for nursing education, practice, and retention grants alongside Train More Nurses (HR5052), Nursing is a Professional Degree Act (HR8691), and National Nursing Workforce Center Act proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-28 — Rural Obstetrics Readiness Act: 2026 — Rural Obstetrics Readiness Act (introduced): would authorize HRSA grants for obstetric emergency workforce training and equipment at rural/shortage-area hospitals plus AIM capacity training at non-OB facilities, adding a rural maternal-health-specific track to the clinician workforce pipeline alongside SAFE Training for OB-GYNs (HR9441) and reproductive health care training proposals already tracked. (novelty: 3) (novelty: 3)
• 2026-07-22 — C.A.R.E. for Mental Health Professionals Act: 2026 — C.A.R.E. for Mental Health Professionals Act (HR9866, 119th Congress, introduced, referred to House Energy and Commerce): would support the mental health professional workforce, adding another behavioral-health-specific pipeline lever alongside the Expand the Behavioral Health Workforce Now Act (HR9867), SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program reauthorization (HR9044), and Health Care Workforce Expansion Act psychiatry GME slots already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-22 — Expand the Behavioral Health Workforce Now Act: 2024 — Expand the Behavioral Health Workforce Now Act (HR9867, introduced, referred to House Energy and Commerce): would expand the behavioral health workforce, adding a behavioral-health-specific pipeline lever alongside SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program reauthorization (HR9044), Rural Behavioral Health Improvement Act (HR5217), and Health Care Workforce Expansion Act psychiatry GME slots already tracked. (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-21 — Action for Dental Health Act: 2026 — Action for Dental Health Act (introduced): would reauthorize through FY2030 HRSA Bureau of Health Workforce grants to states to build the dental workforce and expand oral health access in dental HPSAs, extending the dental workforce pipeline mechanism alongside S5099 dental workforce reauthorization and REDI Act (HR2028) dental resident loan deferral proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-04-28 — Long-Term Care Workforce Support Act: 2026 — Long-Term Care Workforce Support Act (HR8541, introduced, referred to multiple House committees): would provide federal support for the long-term care workforce, adding an LTC-specific pipeline lever alongside Fair Wages for Home Care Workers (HR7917), Careworker Visa Act (HR9234), Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act, and Older Americans Act direct care workforce resource center proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
• 2025-02-24 — New Era of Preventing End-Stage Kidney Disease Act: 2025 — New Era of Preventing End-Stage Kidney Disease Act (HR1518, introduced): would fund postgraduate fellowships and expand primary-care training focused on rare kidney disease, adding a nephrology/rare-kidney-disease-specific clinician training track to the workforce pipeline. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-04-29 — Optimizing the VA Workforce for Veterans Act of 2026: 2026 — Optimizing the VA Workforce for Veterans Act of 2026 (S4400, introduced, hearings held in Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs): would optimize the VA workforce, adding another VA-specific workforce management proposal alongside pay-cap waiver (HR9406), VHA personnel transparency (HR9533), and Honor Our Promise to Veterans Act proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-02-04 — Stop GREED Act of 2025: 2025 — Stop GREED Act of 2025 (introduced): would bar the VA from paying critical skill incentives to Senior Executive Service and comparable central-office employees, allowing case-by-case approvals and exemptions for executives also working at other VA facilities, with annual congressional reporting — building on the enacted PRO Veterans Act’s restriction on VA central office executive incentive pay. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-03-25 — FAIR Act: 2025 — FAIR Act (introduced): would impose reporting and consideration requirements on Medicare GME hospitals regarding DO vs MD applicants and acceptances, adding a DO-inclusion transparency lever to the physician residency workforce pipeline alongside GME slot expansion (Health Care Workforce Expansion Act) and foreign medical graduate proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-23 — A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize a grant program for addressing dental workforce needs.: 2026 — S5099 (introduced): would amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize a federal grant program addressing dental workforce needs, extending an existing dental workforce pipeline mechanism alongside the REDI Act (HR2028) dental resident loan deferral proposal already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-23 — To require the development of a comprehensive rural hospital cybersecurity workforce development strategy, and for other purposes.: 2026 — HR9908 (introduced): would require development of a comprehensive rural hospital cybersecurity workforce development strategy, adding a cybersecurity-specific workforce pipeline lever at the intersection of rural hospital operations and healthcare cyber resiliency. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-05-26 — Minority Fellowship Program Reauthorization Act of 2026: 2026 — Minority Fellowship Program Reauthorization Act of 2026 (HR9044, introduced, referred to House Energy and Commerce): would reauthorize the SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program supporting graduate training for behavioral health professionals from minority communities, extending an existing diversity-focused pipeline mechanism alongside other clinician workforce proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
• 2025-05-14 — Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2025: 2025 — Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2025 (introduced): would mandate hospital minimum nurse-to-patient ratios by unit with public reporting, add anti-retaliation protections for nurses refusing unsafe assignments, and expand loan-repayment, scholarship, and retention programs — a federal staffing-mandate + pipeline package layered on top of existing Train More Nurses (HR5052) and Nursing is a Professional Degree Act (HR8691) proposals already tracked. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-07-27 — Reducing Barriers to Medical Use Licensing: 2025 — NRC proposed rule ‘Reducing Barriers to Medical Use Licensing’ (under EO 14300): would ease training-and-experience requirements for authorized users of byproduct material (nuclear medicine physicians, medical physicists, nuclear pharmacists) under 10 CFR Part 35, adding a credentialing-reform lever specific to the radiologic/nuclear medicine workforce alongside broader clinician credentialing proposals already tracked. (novelty: 3)
• 2025-06-10 — Community TEAMS Act of 2025: 2025 — Community TEAMS Act of 2025 (HR3885, 119th Congress, introduced and referred to House Energy and Commerce): adds another community-based team care workforce proposal to the pipeline; specific mechanism not detailed in the introduction record. (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
• 2025-08-26 — Train More Nurses Act: 2026 — Train More Nurses Act (HR5052, 119th Congress, introduced and referred to House Energy and Commerce and Education and Workforce): would expand nurse training capacity, adding a nursing-pipeline lever alongside the Nursing is a Professional Degree Act (HR8691) and National Nursing Workforce Center Act proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-03-12 — Fair Wages for Home Care Workers Act: 2026 — Fair Wages for Home Care Workers Act (HR7917, 119th Congress, introduced and referred to House Committee on Education and Workforce): would set wage standards for home care workers, adding a compensation-based lever to the direct care workforce track alongside the Careworker Visa Act (HR9234) and Older Americans Act direct care workforce resource center proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-05-29 — VA Employee Fairness Act of 2025: 2025 — VA Employee Fairness Act of 2025 (HR3261, referred to House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations): would adjust VA workforce labor rules, adding a VA-specific labor-rights lever alongside pay-cap waiver and VHA personnel transparency proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-15 — Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act: 2026 — Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act (HR9642, reported unanimously out of committee): would expand Medicare access to rural anesthesiology services, adding an anesthesia-specific rural workforce access lever alongside the Modernizing Rural PA/NP Utilization Act (HR5199) and other rural clinician pipeline proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-16 — To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants for career support for a skilled, internationally educated health care workforce.: 2026 — HR9747 (introduced): House companion to S5012, would authorize the HHS Secretary to award grants for career support of internationally educated health care workers, reinforcing the international-graduate workforce pipeline track alongside H-1B physician visa (HR7961) and foreign medical accreditation (HR9605) proposals. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-04-30 — Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act: 2025 — Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act (introduced): would restore nurse-aide training authority at previously-sanctioned SNFs after corrective action and grant those providers National Practitioner Data Bank query access, adding a long-term care workforce pipeline lever alongside direct-care and community health worker proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-16 — A bill to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants for career support for a skilled, internationally educated health care workforce.: 2026 — S5012 (introduced): would authorize the HHS Secretary to award grants for career support of internationally educated health care workers, adding a career-support funding mechanism to complement H-1B physician visa (HR7961) and foreign medical accreditation (HR9605) proposals already tracked on the international-graduate workforce pipeline. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-29 — Veterans Health Administration Personnel Transparency and Accountability Act: 2026 — Veterans Health Administration Personnel Transparency and Accountability Act (HR9533, introduced, referred to House Veterans’ Affairs): would impose personnel transparency and accountability requirements on the VHA workforce, adding a VHA-specific oversight/accountability layer alongside pay-cap waiver and DoD/VA credentialing proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-02-03 — To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish qualifications for the appointment of a person as a marriage and family therapist, qualified to provide clinical supervision, in the Veterans Health Administration.: 2025 — HR658 (introduced): would set statutory qualifications for marriage and family therapists appointed in the Veterans Health Administration to provide clinical supervision, requiring an appropriate master’s degree, state licensure/certification, and either state authorization to provide clinical supervision or AAMFT-approved supervisor status — a credentialing standard for a specific VHA behavioral health role. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-11 — Take Care of America’s Veterans Act: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act (HR9237, introduced) would expand VA caregiver support programs, bolstering the paid/family caregiver workforce serving veterans in home settings. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-24 — Reproductive Health Care Training Act of 2026: 2026 — Reproductive Health Care Training Act of 2026 (HR9420 / S.4878, introduced, referred to House Energy and Commerce): would establish federal support for training clinicians in reproductive health care, adding a reproductive-health-specific track to the clinician workforce pipeline alongside SAFE Training for OB-GYNs (HR9441) and other perinatal workforce proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-02 — Accelerating Access to Dementia and Alzheimer’s Provider Training Act: 2025 — Accelerating Access to Dementia and Alzheimer’s Provider Training Act (HR3747, introduced): would expand federal training for healthcare providers caring for patients with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, adding a condition-specific clinician training track to the workforce pipeline alongside OB-GYN, community health worker, and direct-care workforce proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-09 — Less Bureaucracy, Better Foreign Medical Accreditation Act: 2024 — Less Bureaucracy, Better Foreign Medical Accreditation Act (HR9605, introduced): would reduce bureaucratic barriers to accreditation of foreign medical schools and graduates, complementing H-1B physician visa proposals (HR7961) as a supply-side pathway for international medical graduates entering the U.S. physician workforce. (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-09 — Careworker Visa Act of 2026: 2026 — Careworker Visa Act of 2026 (HR9234, 119th Congress, introduced): would create a dedicated visa pathway for careworkers, referred to the House Judiciary Committee — an immigration-based supply-side lever for the direct care/caregiver workforce, complementing the H-1B physician visa proposal (HR7961) already tracked. (novelty: 3)
• 2025-03-11 — REDI Act: 2025 — REDI Act (HR2028, introduced): would allow medical and dental interns and residents to defer federal student loan payments until completion of their training programs, easing debt burdens during graduate medical/dental education as a physician/dentist pipeline support. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-05-07 — Nursing is a Professional Degree Act: 2026 — Nursing is a Professional Degree Act (HR8691, 119th Congress, introduced): would formally designate nursing as a professional degree, a credentialing classification change referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce that could affect nursing education financing and workforce recognition. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-24 — Federal Workforce Reproductive Rights Protection Act: cross-connection with federal-workforce-reproductive-rights-protection-act: HR9448 targets reproductive rights protections specifically for the federal workforce, linking reproductive health policy with federal employment/workforce policy. (novelty: 3)
• 2025-04-01 — Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act: 2025 — Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act (introduced): would direct DOL/OSHA to issue a mandatory workplace violence prevention standard covering health care and social service employers, requiring written plans, incident investigation, and employee training. (novelty: 3)
• 2025-09-08 — Modernizing Rural Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner Utilization Act of 2025: 2025 — Modernizing Rural Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner Utilization Act of 2025 (HR5199, introduced): would modernize how PAs and NPs are utilized in rural healthcare settings, extending the NP/PA scope-of-practice reform track (e.g., I CAN Act) with a rural-specific framing. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-24 — SAFE Training for OB-GYNs Act: 2026-06-24 — SAFE Training for OB-GYNs Act (HR9441, introduced): would establish federally-supported training standards for OB-GYNs, adding to the perinatal/maternal-health clinician workforce pipeline alongside doula and community health worker proposals already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-01-15 — Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Credentialing Integration Act of 2025: 2025 — DoD/VA Medical Credentialing Integration Act of 2025 (HR6662, introduced): would integrate medical credentialing processes across DoD and VA to streamline provider recognition between the two federal health systems, reducing duplicative credentialing burdens for clinicians serving both populations. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-09-16 — TRAVEL Act of 2025: 2025 — TRAVEL Act of 2025 (introduced): would authorize the VA to deploy traveling physicians to U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, CNMI, Puerto Rico, USVI) for assignments up to one year, backed by relocation or retention bonuses — a targeted VA workforce mobility incentive to fill physician shortages in territorial VA facilities. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-10-09 — Right to Override Act: 2025 — Right to Override Act (S2997, introduced): would require healthcare employers to allow clinicians to override AI clinical decision support systems and bar retaliation for doing so, creating a new labor-protection mechanism for clinical staff enforced jointly by HHS and DOL. (novelty: 4) (novelty: 4)
• 2026-06-23 — Take Care of America’s Veterans Act: 2024 — Take Care of America’s Veterans Act (HR9237, introduced): expands VA caregiver support programs, extending the paid/family caregiver workforce infrastructure supporting veterans’ in-home care. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-12-11 — Honor Our Promise to Veterans Act of 2025: 2025 — Honor Our Promise to Veterans Act of 2025 (introduced): would remove pay caps for critical VA health personnel and fund infrastructure improvements, consolidating VA workforce recruitment/retention flexibilities with scheduling and VCCP reforms. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-23 — To amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the cap on the number of waivers to certain pay limitations that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs may issue for critical health care personnel of the Department of Veterans Affairs.: 2024 — HR9406 (introduced): would eliminate the statutory cap on the number of pay limitation waivers the VA Secretary may issue to critical health care personnel, expanding VA’s compensation flexibility for clinical recruitment and retention. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-09-30 — Health Care Workforce Expansion Act of 2025: 2025 — Health Care Workforce Expansion Act of 2025 (introduced): would authorize tuition grants with service obligations, expand HRSA relocation grants, and add Medicare GME residency slots targeted at psychiatry and primary care to address rural and primary care shortages. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-08-14 — PRO Veterans Act of 2025: 2025 — PRO Veterans Act of 2025 (enacted): restricts critical skill incentive pay for senior-level VA central office employees, narrowing a federal workforce retention/recruitment tool for VA executives. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-03-19 — Healthy Moms and Babies Act: 2026 — Healthy Moms and Babies Act (introduced): includes a CMS study on Medicaid coverage of doula services, touching the perinatal support workforce as a potential Medicaid-reimbursable provider category. (novelty: 2) (novelty: 3)
• 2022-09-14 — National Nursing Workforce Center Act of 2022: National Nursing Workforce Center Act of 2022 (introduced): earlier version of the 2023 bill already tracked, proposing a pilot program to fund state-based nursing workforce centers and expanding HRSA’s authority to establish a dedicated nursing workforce research center. (novelty: 2)
• 2023-03-30 — National Nursing Workforce Center Act of 2023: National Nursing Workforce Center Act of 2023 (introduced): would establish a pilot program supporting state-based nursing workforce centers and direct HRSA to create a dedicated nursing-focused health workforce research center, extending existing HRSA workforce research infrastructure to nursing specifically. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-02-10 — Health Care Provider Shortage Minimization Act of 2025: HR1160 (Health Care Provider Shortage Minimization Act of 2025) introduced, would grant statutory independent-contractor status for federal tax purposes to qualified locum tenens physicians and advanced practice providers, affecting self-employment tax and reporting obligations for a key workforce-flexibility segment. (novelty: 3)
• 2025-06-18 — Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2025: Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2025 (introduced): would authorize a national resource center focused on growing the direct care workforce, adding a targeted federal infrastructure for the aging-services segment of the workforce alongside broader NP/PA and community health worker expansions already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-05-07 — To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to State educational agencies to carry out wellness programs for school personnel, and for other purposes.: HR8676 introduced to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, authorizing Education Department grants to state educational agencies for wellness programs targeting school personnel — an adjacent (non-clinical) workforce wellness pathway routed through education rather than HHS. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-04-30 — Developing the Community Health Workforce Act of 2026: HR8629, the Developing the Community Health Workforce Act of 2026, referred to House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees, proposing federal support for community health worker training and deployment. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-06-13 — Community Paramedicine Act of 2025: Community Paramedicine Act of 2025 (HR4011) introduced and referred to House Energy and Commerce, proposing to expand paramedic roles into community-based non-emergency care — a workforce scope-of-practice expansion adjacent to NP/PA expansions already tracked. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-02-13 — I CAN Act: 2026 — I CAN Act (introduced): would broaden scope of practice for NPs, PAs, and clinical nurse specialists under Medicare and Medicaid, letting them handle certifications and supervisory tasks currently limited to physicians. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-01-22 — Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act of 2025: cross-connection with cossup-first-responder-fentanyl-exposure: First responder training and PPE-like containment devices intersect with healthcare/emergency workforce safety. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-02-27 — Rebuild America’s Health Care Schools Act of 2025: 2025 — Rebuild America’s Health Care Schools Act of 2025 (citation removed) (introduced): would broaden the venues where Medicare-reimbursable nursing and allied health training can occur, potentially enabling hospitals to expand training pipelines through affiliated entities. (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
• 2026-03-17 — H–1Bs for Physicians and the Healthcare Workforce Act: HR7961 (Healthcare Workforce Act) introduced in the 119th Congress would modify H-1B visa provisions for physicians to address workforce shortages; referred to the House Judiciary Committee. (novelty: 3)

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