Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2026
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2026, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients. The main policy domain is Healthcare, Government Operations, Education.
Who Benefits and How
health care providers and patients may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, health care providers and patients may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section HE19EBF7D5BA145259A36924A493448C7: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2026.
- Section H31A0B09C3EF0491AB0E702F07A4530B4: 2. Findings Congress finds the following: According to the Bureau of Health Workforce, the United States faces a shortage of physicians. A 2016 study entitled...
- Section HA9F83BE8E8314025A03D632C8A64A3F4: 3. Study on designation of general surgical health professional shortage areas Part D of title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b et seq.) is...
- Section H9CBE53A1FBDF4E778A0D76EF0A47D8A2: 340J. Designation of general surgery shortage areas For purposes of this section, the term general surgery shortage area means, with respect to an urban,...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2026, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Government Operations, Education
Primary Purpose
This bill, Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2026, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- health care providers and patients
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- health care providers and patients
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
Mr. Bera (for himself, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Peters, and Mr. …
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → The Secretary identified in the operative section
- "the_administrator"
- → The Administrator identified in the operative section
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