# 119-s-2287: Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act

119-s-2287, Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] (D-WI); status in_committee; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-05).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-2287
- Congress: 119
- Title: Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act
- Status: in_committee
- Introduced: 2025-07-15
- Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] (D-WI)
- Cosponsors: 23
- Policy area: Health
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-05

## Summary

**This bill would expand the palliative and hospice workforce.** It would create coordinated federal programs for education, training, career incentives, public information, and NIH research to strengthen palliative and hospice care across hospitals, clinics, homes, and long-term care settings. - Families and patients: Would fund public information and targeted materials for Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans Health Administration beneficiaries and medically underserved groups, and promote palliative care starting at diagnosis across pediatric and adult populations. - Health professionals and workforce: Would fund education grants, physician training, faculty career awards, fellowships, and career incentive awards across medicine, nursing, social work, chaplaincy, pharmacy, psychology, and related fields. Fellowship awards would be capped at up to $150,000 per person and the fellowship program would be limited to funding no more than 24 programs. Career incentives would carry service obligations of at least five years. - Research and coordination: Would require the National Institutes of Health to develop a nationwide palliative care research strategy and, beginning January 1, 2026, permit NIH to conduct or support palliative care research. The bill also authorizes a coordinating hospice and palliative nursing training program. *Would authorize about $15 million per year for the workforce programs and $5 million per year for hospice and palliative nursing training for fiscal years 2026–2030.*

## Cosponsors (23)

- Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV] (R-WV), 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] (D-OR), 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS] (R-KS), 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] (D-WA), 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] (R-WY), 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] (D-VT), 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-MS] (R-MS), 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI] (D-RI), 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD] (R-SD), 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV] (D-NV), 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK] (R-AK), 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME] (I-ME), 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] (R-TN), 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] (D-NY), 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] (R-ME), 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] (D-RI), 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR] (R-AR), 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] (D-MN), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS] (R-MS), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA] (D-CA), 2025-09-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Justice, James C. [R-WV] (R-WV), 2025-09-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] (D-MN), 2026-02-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. McCormick, David [R-PA] (R-PA), 2026-02-10T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- More palliative workforce training: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would fund new palliative care training programs for doctors, nurses, and other clinicians. It would authorize $15 million per year for physician training for FY2026–2030. It would authorize $5 million per year for nursing and allied workforce training for FY2026–2030. Fellowsh…
- Federal palliative care information: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would let a Federal Director publish palliative care information for patients, families, and health workers. Materials must describe palliative and hospice services and say palliative care may begin at diagnosis and alongside treatment. Materials would target Medicare, Medicaid…
- NIH palliative research expansion: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would direct NIH to make and carry out a nationwide plan to expand palliative care research. The plan would target cancer, major organ diseases, infections, and neurodegenerative illnesses. The bill would also amend NIH law to explicitly allow NIH to conduct or support palliati…
- Limits on program uses and training: cost, low. If enacted, the bill would bar using funds under the Act to provide palliative or hospice care for the purpose of causing a patient's death. It would also bar using funds to provide, promote, or train on any item or service that Federal law forbids under Public Law 105‑12. These rules would limit w…

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## Sources
- [119-s-2287 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2287)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2287 (as of 2026-09-05).