Government money helps train more pregnancy care doctors in some states.
H.R. 9420 — Reproductive Health Care Training Act of 2026 · Filed by Ami Bera (D-CA) · 4 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill gives money to medical schools and health centers. The money goes to states where pregnancy care training is legal. It pays for classes and scholarships. It trains more doctors, nurses, and other health workers to provide pregnancy care. The bill gives $25 million per year for five years, from 2027 to 2031.
Who it affects
People who need pregnancy care may have more trained doctors and nurses. Medical schools and health centers in legal states get the money. The bill helps rural areas, tribal areas, and groups with racial minorities and people with disabilities.
One thing to notice
The bill only gives money to states where pregnancy care training is legal now. Training will grow more in some states than in others.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
4 cosponsors: 4 Democrats.
- Jun 24, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 24, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $21,703 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 48 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Ami Bera, who sponsored the bill, received $670,743 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Power to Decide — $21,703 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- health centers — Places where doctors and nurses give care to sick or hurt people.
- scholarships — Money given to students to help pay for school and training.
- rural areas — Places far from cities with fewer people and fewer doctors.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jul 2, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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