To provide low-income individuals with opportunities to enter and follow a career pathway in the health professions, and for other purposes.

This bill rewrites the Health Profession Opportunity Grants program in the Social Security Act. It would provide $435 million per year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 for grants to train people with family incomes at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level for health care jobs such as nursing assistants, nurses, and paramedics. Grant projects must offer basic skills education, child care, transportation help, and career coaching, and may offer cash stipends and emergency funds that would not count as taxable income. The bill also funds 5-year demonstration projects for people with arrest or conviction records and for careers in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care such as doulas and midwives, and it requires evaluations and reports to Congress.

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Sponsors

• Danny K. Davis Democrat sponsor
• 17 cosponsors