Reproductive Health Care Training Act of 2026
Sponsored By: Senator Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced
Summary
Expands abortion care training and access by creating a federal grant program to train health students, residents, and advanced practice clinicians in states that allow comprehensive abortion training. The program emphasizes clinical skills, telehealth, partnerships, and recruiting providers for medically underserved communities.
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- Families and patients in medically underserved communities could see more local clinicians prepared to provide abortion care, including attention to Tribal communities, people with disabilities, and racial and ethnic minority groups.
- Students, residents, and advanced practice clinicians would be eligible for expanded clinical training, scholarships or stipends, instructor support, and transition-to-practice help to become abortion providers.
- Accredited health professions schools, academic health centers, and safety-net providers could get grants; priority goes to programs in covered states and to minority-serving institutions. Awardees must submit annual reports and HHS will report program results to congressional committees.
*Authorizes appropriations of $25.0 million per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031 to carry out the program.*
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Grants for abortion care training
If enacted, HHS would run a new grant and contract program through HRSA to expand clinical abortion training. It would authorize $25 million each year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031. Grants would go to accredited health schools, academic health centers, and nonprofit safety‑net clinics in states that allow comprehensive training. The program would prioritize sites that train clinicians from states with limited training and minority‑serving institutions. The money could fund clinical training, telehealth, curriculum, and interprofessional training. It could also pay for instructor support, community partnerships, and scholarships or stipends for trainees. Award recipients would file annual, non‑identifiable reports to HHS and HHS would send an annual summary to Congress. Federal funds must supplement, not supplant, existing Title VII and Title VIII funding.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
WI • D
Cosponsors
Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
WA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2026
Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
MA • D
Sponsored 6/24/2026
Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
HI • D
Sponsored 6/24/2026
Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
NV • D
Sponsored 7/13/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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