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Streamline Emergency Care Act

To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to award grants for expanding, modernizing, or streamlining emergency department operations.

Introduced Jun 12, 2025

Latest action (Jun 12, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Referred to
Energy and Commerce Committee
Policy area
Health
Issues
Healthcare

Summary
  • Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, to award grants to nonprofit health care providers operating emergency departments for expanding, modernizing, or streamlining emergency department operations.
  • Limits individual grant awards to a maximum of $500,000 per grant.
  • Allows grant funds to be used for hiring and retaining emergency department staff, optimizing emergency department capacity and patient flow through space repurposing or renovation and equipment purchases, and conducting triage and training for existing personnel.
  • Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress a report on the effectiveness and impacts of the grant program by the end of the third fiscal year after enactment.
  • Authorizes $20 million in funding for each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
3 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Michael Lawler’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • BLACKSTONE $30,317
  • Employer not reported $21,373
  • CEO $20,320
  • APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT $16,500
  • BRODIE GENERATIONAL CAPITAL PARTNERS $16,500

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Michael Lawler → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Jun 12, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. · house
  2. Jun 12, 2025 Introduced in House

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  • HR 4146 — Help Emergency Responders Operate Act · Introduced Apr 12, 2000 · Cong. 106 75%
  • HR 4426 — SMART Act · Introduced Jul 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%
  • HR 3990 — Disaster Relief Medicaid Act · Introduced Jun 12, 2025 · Cong. 119 73%
  • HR 3134 — Emergency Care Improvement Act · Introduced May 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 3155 — Firefighter's Local-Federal Assistance for Management of Emergencies Act of 1999 · Introduced Apr 12, 2000 · Cong. 106 69%
  • HR 5067 — Rapid Disaster Relief Act · Introduced Aug 30, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jun 12, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 12, 2025

Mr. Lawler (for himself and Mr. Espaillat) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to award grants for expanding, modernizing, or streamlining emergency department operations.

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 “Streamline Emergency Care Act”.

SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS.

(a) Awards.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this section referred to as the “Secretary”), acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, shall carry out a program of awarding grants to eligible entities for expanding, modernizing, or streamlining emergency department operations.

(b) Eligible Entities.—In this section, the term “eligible entity” means a health care provider that—

(1) is a nonprofit organization; and

(2) at the time of applying for a grant under this section, is already operating an emergency department.

(c) Amount.—The amount of a grant under subsection (a) shall not exceed $500,000.

(d) Use of Funds.—A grant received under this section may be used for any of the following:

(1) The hiring and retention of individuals to work in the emergency department.

(2) Optimizing and modernizing the capacity of an emergency department, and improving patient flow out of the emergency department, by—

(A) repurposing or renovating hospital spaces;

(B) implementing new processes; or

(C) purchasing equipment.

(3) Triage and other training to increase the capacity of existing personnel to assist in improving emergency department patient care and flow.

(e) Report.—Not later than the end of the third fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate a report on the effectiveness and impacts of the grant program under this section.

(f) Authorization of Appropriations.—To carry out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030. <all>

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