[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3980 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3980

To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through 
the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, 
 to award grants for expanding, modernizing, or streamlining emergency 
                         department operations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 12, 2025

  Mr. Lawler (for himself and Mr. Espaillat) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through 
the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, 
 to award grants for expanding, modernizing, or streamlining emergency 
                         department operations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Streamline Emergency Care Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS.

    (a) Awards.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this 
section referred to as the ``Secretary''), acting through the 
Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, 
shall carry out a program of awarding grants to eligible entities for 
expanding, modernizing, or streamlining emergency department 
operations.
    (b) Eligible Entities.--In this section, the term ``eligible 
entity'' means a health care provider that--
            (1) is a nonprofit organization; and
            (2) at the time of applying for a grant under this section, 
        is already operating an emergency department.
    (c) Amount.--The amount of a grant under subsection (a) shall not 
exceed $500,000.
    (d) Use of Funds.--A grant received under this section may be used 
for any of the following:
            (1) The hiring and retention of individuals to work in the 
        emergency department.
            (2) Optimizing and modernizing the capacity of an emergency 
        department, and improving patient flow out of the emergency 
        department, by--
                    (A) repurposing or renovating hospital spaces;
                    (B) implementing new processes; or
                    (C) purchasing equipment.
            (3) Triage and other training to increase the capacity of 
        existing personnel to assist in improving emergency department 
        patient care and flow.
    (e) Report.--Not later than the end of the third fiscal year 
beginning after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 
submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
Pensions of the Senate a report on the effectiveness and impacts of the 
grant program under this section.
    (f) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this section, 
there is authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2026 through 2030.
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