Rural Residency Planning and Development Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Miller (WV)
Introduced
Summary
Expand rural physician training. This bill would create two grant programs to help start and support physician residency programs that train doctors for rural areas and provide technical assistance to those efforts.
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- Families in rural areas: Helps bring more physicians to rural communities by funding residency programs that train residents in rural areas for more than 50 percent of their residency.
- Rural hospitals and clinics: Enables rural hospitals, rural health clinics, and community health centers to apply for grants to establish new rural residencies or add rural training sites. Grants can be fully funded at award and run for an initial 3-year term for program grants and a 4-year term for technical assistance grants.
- Medical schools, tribal organizations, and workforce partners: Broad eligibility includes schools of medicine, historically Black colleges and universities, Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations, graduate medical education consortia, nonprofits, and for-profits to apply for planning or technical assistance support.
*Would authorize $12.7 million per year for fiscal years 2026–2030 for these programs, with amounts available until expended, increasing federal appropriations for rural residency development.*
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Analyzed Economic Effects
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Grants to create rural doctor residencies
If enacted, the bill would create two grant programs to start and expand rural physician residency training. Congress would authorize $12.7 million for each year from fiscal years 2026 through 2030, and those funds would remain available until spent. Residency grants would have an initial 3-year term and may be fully funded at award; applicants would describe a training pathway such as primary care, high-need specialties, or maternal and obstetric care. A companion technical assistance program would award 4-year TA grants. Eligible applicants would include public or private groups, Tribes, rural hospitals and clinics, Tribal health centers, medical schools (including historically Black colleges), and other groups the Secretary allows. A qualifying rural residency program would be accredited and train residents in rural areas for more than half of their residency time.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Miller (WV)
WV • R
Cosponsors
Tokuda
HI • D
Sponsored 12/4/2025
Smith (NE)
NE • R
Sponsored 12/4/2025
Carter (LA)
LA • D
Sponsored 12/4/2025
Vindman
VA • D
Sponsored 12/16/2025
Del. Moylan, James C. [R-GU-At Large]
GU • R
Sponsored 2/9/2026
Bishop
GA • D
Sponsored 2/9/2026
Thompson (PA)
PA • R
Sponsored 2/23/2026
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