H.R. 9420: Reproductive Health Care Training Act of 2026

This bill would direct the Department of Health and Human Services to create a grant or contract program to support training in abortion care. The program would be run through the Health Resources and Services Administration and would provide federal funding to eligible schools, health centers, and nonprofit safety-net health providers.

What the program is for

The goal is to expand education and clinical training for:

• health profession students,
• medical residents, and
• advanced practice clinicians

in places where abortion-care training is allowed. The bill also says the program should help prepare trainees to work as abortion providers after finishing training.

Who could receive funding

Eligible recipients would include accredited health professions schools, academic health centers, and other public or private nonprofit safety-net providers, including sexual and reproductive health providers, as determined by the Secretary of HHS.

How funding would be prioritized

When deciding who gets grants or contracts, HHS would give priority to entities that:

• are located in states, Puerto Rico, or U.S. territories where abortion training is permitted or already taught comprehensively,
• help train people from states where such training is otherwise limited, or
• are minority-serving institutions or institutions that train health professionals from underrepresented minority groups.

What the money could be used for

Grant recipients could use the funds to:

• expand clinical abortion-care training;
• build or run training programs that cover abortion care;
• identify barriers to abortion care, including barriers affecting racial and ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, Tribal communities, and medically underserved communities;
• support the use of telehealth for abortion care;
• integrate abortion training into health care education;
• support team-based training involving providers other than OB-GYNs;
• form partnerships with community health organizations and other eligible entities;
• improve recruitment and retention of trainees and clinicians from underserved communities;
• train instructors who serve underserved communities;
• help trainees transition into practice that includes abortion care; and
• provide scholarships or stipends for people training in abortion care, especially those connected to underserved communities.

Reporting and oversight

Recipients would have to submit yearly reports to HHS on their financial and program results. Those reports could include information like the number of trainees, professions involved, partnerships with care sites, and faculty participation in continuing education, while keeping patient and participant identities private.

Each year that awards are made, HHS would also have to send Congress a summary report on how the program is working and whether it appears to be expanding access to abortion services, again without revealing identifying information.

Funding

The bill authorizes $25 million per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031 to carry out the program.

Relevant Companies

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