CATCH IT Act
Sponsored By: Representative Scholten
Introduced
Summary
Increases federal cost share for rural health facility projects that buy or upgrade specified preventive health equipment. The bill would add 25 percentage points to the USDA Community Facilities Grant Program federal share when eligible screening or diagnostic equipment is included in a project.
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- Rural health facilities and clinics — Would find upgrades and new purchases of eligible equipment more affordable by adding 25 percentage points to federal funding for those projects.
- Patients in rural communities — Would gain better local access to screening and diagnostic tools, including advanced breast imaging (3-D mammography), mobile cancer screening units, laboratory equipment for multi-cancer detection, colorectal screening gear, computerized tomography scanners, and diagnostic ultrasound.
- Local governments and nonprofit grantees — Would see grant awards under the Community Facilities Grant Program recalculated when projects include the listed equipment types.
- Timing — The change would take effect on the first day of the first federal fiscal year that begins after enactment.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Bigger federal share for rural health equipment
If enacted, this would raise the federal share of the Department of Agriculture’s Community Facilities grants by 25 percentage points when a rural health facility buys or upgrades certain preventive health equipment. The list includes 3D mammography, mobile cancer screening units, lab tools for early cancer detection, colorectal screening gear, CT scanners, and diagnostic ultrasound machines. This would lower the local share needed for qualifying projects. The change would start on the first day of the first federal fiscal year after enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Scholten
MI • D
Cosponsors
Hinson
IA • R
Sponsored 10/28/2025
Fitzpatrick
PA • R
Sponsored 4/2/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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