Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization Act of 2025 updates rural health grant programs under section 330A of the Public Health Service Act. For rural health care services outreach grants, the Director must ensure grant funds are used, as appropriate, to meet the health care needs of rural underserved populations in the local community or region and to involve those populations in project development and ongoing operations. For rural health network development grants, the Director must ensure funds increase access to quality health care through integrated networks for rural underserved populations and involve those populations in network planning, development, and implementation. The bill also extends authorization language from 2021-2025 to 2026-2030.
Who Benefits and How
Rural underserved populations benefit because grant-funded projects must be tied to their health care needs and involvement. Rural health care providers benefit from continued grant authority and clearer direction for outreach projects serving underserved communities. Rural health networks benefit because network development grants must support integrated care access for underserved rural populations. Small rural health care providers benefit from reauthorized quality-improvement and network-related grant programs through 2030.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Health Resources and Services Administration must apply the new rural underserved population requirements when awarding section 330A grants. Rural health grant applicants must design projects that meet local underserved needs and involve rural underserved populations in development, planning, operations, or implementation. Grant recipients may face additional community-engagement duties to show that rural underserved populations benefit from and participate in the funded work.
Key Provisions
- Amends rural health care services outreach grants to require use of funds for rural underserved population needs and community involvement.
- Amends rural health network development grants to require integrated network access for rural underserved populations.
- Requires rural underserved populations to be involved in planning, development, ongoing operations, or implementation of funded projects.
- Extends section 330A authorization language from fiscal years 2021-2025 to fiscal years 2026-2030.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Amends Public Health Service Act section 330A to require rural health care services outreach grants and rural health network development grants to be used, as appropriate, to meet the needs of rural underserved populations and involve those populations in project planning, development, operations, and implementation, and reauthorizes the section 330A grant programs for fiscal years 2026 through 2030.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Rural Development, Grants
Primary Purpose
Amends Public Health Service Act section 330A to require rural health care services outreach grants and rural health network development grants to be used, as appropriate, to meet the needs of rural underserved populations and involve those populations in project planning, development, operations, and implementation, and reauthorizes the section 330A grant programs for fiscal years 2026 through 2030.
Policy Domains
House resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- Rural underserved populations
- Rural health care providers
- Rural health networks
- Small rural health care providers
Identified Costs
- Health Resources and Services Administration
- Rural health grant applicants
- Rural health grant recipients
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedReceived in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative …
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate …
Considered as unfinished business. (text: CR H3025)
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules …
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill …
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3021-3023)
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Health Resources and Services Administration, Rural health care providers, Rural health grant applicants
Positive-direction: Rural health care providers, Rural health networks, Rural underserved populations, Small rural health care providers
Negative-direction: Health Resources and Services Administration, Rural health grant applicants, Rural health grant recipients
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "hrsa"
- → Health Resources and Services Administration
- "phsa"
- → Public Health Service Act
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