To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the telehealth network and telehealth resource centers grant programs.
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Introduced 2025-05-14
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Officially: “To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the telehealth network and telehealth resource centers grant programs.” Read the full text
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What it does
This bill reauthorizes through FY2030 grant programs to support telehealth networks and telehealth resource centers, which are administered by the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth within the Health Resources and Services Administration. These programs provide grants to health care providers and related entities to establish telehealth networks that expand access to and improve the quality of health care services and information in rural and medically underserved areas and for medically underserved populations.
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1Reauthorization of telehealth network and telehealth resource centers grant programs
This section would amend section 330I(q) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c-14(q)), which authorizes appropriations for the telehealth network grant program and the telehealth resource centers grant program run under section 330I of that Act. It would keep the current authorization of appropriations, now labeled as paragraph (1), and add a new paragraph (2) authorizing $42,050,000 in appropriations for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030.
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1. Reauthorization of telehealth network and telehealth resource centers grant programs
Section 330I(q) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 254c–14(q) ) is amended—
(1) by striking section and inserting the following:
section—
(1)
;
(2) in paragraph (1), as so inserted, by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
(2) $42,050,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030.
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The numbers
29%
of bills that passed one chamber became law in the 118th Congress, 2023 to 2024 (n=939)
2
sponsors, out of 218 needed to pass
Who is lobbying on this
ALLIANCE FOR CONNECTED CAREvia SIRONA STRATEGIES LLC
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BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM USA CORPORATIONvia BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM USA CORPORATION, FORMERLY REPORTED AS BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC
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BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATIONvia BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION
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BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF FLORIDA INCvia BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF FLORIDA, INC.
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NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESSvia NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS
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BCBSM INCvia BCBSM, INC.
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BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF KANSAS INCvia BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF KANSAS, INC.
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BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MICHIGANvia BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MICHIGAN
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Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (2026-04-22).