GREEN Hospitals Act
Sponsored By: Representative Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7]
Introduced
Summary
Builds climate‑ready, lower‑emissions health care facilities. The GREEN Hospitals Act would create grant programs to fund resilience, decarbonization, and community‑focused upgrades at hospitals and other medical facilities and would authorize $100 billion for GREEN Hill‑Burton funds and $5 billion for a Planning and Evaluation Grant Program.
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- Medical facilities: Hospitals, clinics, long‑term care and other covered facilities could receive grants and planning funds for onsite renewable energy and storage, high‑efficiency heating and cooling, improved air filtration and monitoring, green roofs and wetlands, and upgrades to keep access routes open during disasters.
- Underserved patients and communities: The bill gives selection priority to facilities serving Medicare/Medicaid populations, uninsured patients, and neighborhoods with high pollution or climate risk, and requires at least 50 percent of planning grant funds go to environmental justice communities.
- Workers and local hiring: Grant recipients must pay prevailing wages, give assurances about collective bargaining rights, and cannot require trainees or workers to repay training costs as a condition of employment.
*Would authorize about $105 billion in federal funding for these programs for fiscal year 2026, increasing federal funding available for climate resilience in health care.*
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Large grants to build resilient hospitals
If enacted, this would authorize $100 billion for FY2026 to fund construction and modernization grants for climate‑ready medical facilities. The Secretary would prioritize projects that increase capacity for essential care and add resilience features like onsite power and storage, renewables, high‑efficiency heat pumps and air quality systems, green roofs and stormwater systems, tree planting and cooling, and upgrades that protect roads, sidewalks, and transit access. Applicants would also need to show plans for adequate staffing and either a collective bargaining agreement or a policy not to interfere with workers' NLRA section 7 rights.
Planning grants for hospital resilience
If enacted, this would create a $5 billion Planning and Evaluation Grant Program for FY2026 to help hospitals and clinics plan climate resilience. Grants would be up to $500,000 each and would be available to states, tribes, cities, counties, hospital districts, and nonprofits. At least 50% of planning money must go to projects in environmental justice communities. Applications would have to show patient demographics (including whether most revenue is Medicare/Medicaid), describe community outreach, and promise Davis‑Bacon prevailing wages, no trainee repayment clauses, and either a collective bargaining agreement or a noninterference policy on workers' rights.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7]
WA • D
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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