HEAL-AI Act
Sponsored By: Representative Barragan
Introduced
Summary
Bring AI literacy into medical training. This bill would create a Health Resources and Services Administration grant program to help medical schools and residency programs teach AI skills, clinical integration, and ethics to students, residents, and faculty.
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- Medical students and residents would receive competency-based AI education covering diagnostics, treatment recommendations, predictive analytics, clinical decision-making, and ethical issues through simulations, case studies, and practical labs.
- Medical schools and residency sponsoring institutions could get competitive grants up to $100,000 per recipient per fiscal year, may renew awards, and may use up to 10% of funds for administrative costs.
- Schools that serve medically underserved communities get priority and the program must seek geographic diversity, with no more than two awards in the same 2020 U.S. Census Division.
- Grant recipients must report program goals, progress, expenditures, and learner enrollment annually and publish funded educational materials within 30 days to share tools and curricula with the broader medical education community.
*Would authorize $1.0 million per year from 2026 through 2030 to carry out the program.*
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Authorizes $1 million a year for grants
This bill would authorize $1 million each year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 to run the grant program. Congress would still need to appropriate the money each year.
Grants to teach doctors AI skills
This bill would create competitive grants for medical schools and residency programs. Each school could receive up to $100,000 per year. Money could only fund AI training for clinicians, like diagnosis tools, decision support, ethics, privacy, and hands-on labs. Priority would favor schools that serve underserved communities and a broad geographic mix. No more than two awards would go to the same 2020 Census Division.
Limits and reports for grant schools
This bill would cap admin costs at 10% of each grant. Schools would have to file a report within 180 days and then yearly. Reports would show goals, progress, money spent, curriculum work, learner counts, and partners. Within 30 days after each report, schools would post any grant-funded teaching materials online. Grant money could not pay to publish in predatory journals.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Barragan
CA • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-36]
CA • D
Sponsored 11/18/2025
Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5]
NJ • D
Sponsored 11/18/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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