Expanding Capacity for Health Outcomes Act of 2026

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5193 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5193

   To amend the Public Health Service Act to expand the capacity to
    improve health outcomes and increase access to specialized care.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 30, 2026

  Mr. Schatz (for himself, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Lujan, and Mrs. Capito)
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the
          Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL

   To amend the Public Health Service Act to expand the capacity to
    improve health outcomes and increase access to specialized care.

    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 ``Expanding Capacity for Health
Outcomes Act of 2026''.

SEC. 2. EXPANDING CAPACITY FOR HEALTH OUTCOMES.

    Section 330N of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c-20)
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (e)--
                    (A) by striking ``The Secretary may require'' and
                inserting the following:
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary may require''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Grant to network.--The Secretary may award one or
        more grants under this section to an entity or entities
        representing a network to include 3 or more organizations each
        with experience in operating technology-enabled collaborative
        learning and capacity building models. At the end of the grant
        period under this paragraph, the network shall use a shared
        dataset to demonstrate the impact of technology-enabled
        collaborative learning and capacity building models on health
        outcomes for one or more significant public health issues as
        identified by the Secretary, such as an infectious disease with
        increasing incidence, or a chronic disease with increasing
        prevalence.''; and
            (2) in subsection (k), by striking ``2022 through 2026''
        and inserting ``2027 through 2031''.
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