Federal grants help foreign-trained doctors and nurses work in rural America.
H.R. 9747 — Welcome Back to the Health Care Workforce Act · Filed by Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jul 16, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill creates a grant program for health care workers trained outside the U.S. Hospitals, nonprofits, colleges, and government agencies can apply for grants. The grants pay for English classes, help with licenses, mentoring, and job placement. The program focuses on rural areas that need more health care workers.
Who it affects
People in rural areas get better access to doctors and nurses. Internationally educated health care workers get help entering the U.S. job market. Hospitals and nonprofits that hire these workers can apply for grants.
One thing to notice
The bill funds support services but does not set pay rules. It does not protect these workers from unfair treatment on the job.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Jul 16, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 16, 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
2 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 2 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $4,400,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 22 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Raja Krishnamoorthi, who sponsored the bill, received $763,350 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Amazon.com Services LLC — $4,360,000 in 1 report
- San Bernardino County Transportation Authority — $40,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- rural areas — Communities far from cities that often have fewer doctors and hospitals.
- grant — Money the government gives to groups to pay for a specific program.
- mentoring — When an experienced person teaches and guides someone new to a job.
- 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 21, 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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