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Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 › Section 6401

Extension for Community Health Centers, National Health Service Corps, and Teaching Health Centers That Operate Gme Programs

Section 6401 · Sec. 6401 ·

What this chapter is about

This part sets new dollar figures for three health programs. Community health centers get $4,600,000,000 for 2026. The health service corps gets $350,000,000. Teaching health centers get sums rising to $300,000,000 by 2029.

4 proposals indexed from this chapter.

Community health centers get $4,600,000,000 for fiscal year 2026

The document says “is amended”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 6401 in the PDF
What the document says

“``(J) $4,600,000,000 for fiscal year 2026; and ``(K) $1,159,452,055 for the period beginning on October 1, 2026, and ending on December 31, 2026; and''.”

Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, Sec. 6401

Subsection (a) of section 6401 replaces subparagraphs (H) through (K) of section 10503(b)(1) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It sets $4,600,000,000 for fiscal year 2026 and $1,159,452,055 for the period from October 1, 2026 to December 31, 2026, and restates the 2024 and 2025 figures.

What the document actually says

“``(J) $4,600,000,000 for fiscal year 2026; and ``(K) $1,159,452,055 for the period beginning on October 1, 2026, and ending on December 31, 2026; and''.”

Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, Sec. 6401
That sentence, in plain words

For fiscal year 2026 the sum is $4,600,000,000. For the three months after that, the sum is $1,159,452,055.

What this is about

A community health center serves an area where care is hard to find. It takes patients who cannot pay much. This is the largest sum in this part.

No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.

The National Health Service Corps gets $350,000,000 for fiscal year 2026

The document says “is amended”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 6401 in the PDF
What the document says

“``(K) $350,000,000 for fiscal year 2026; and”

Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, Sec. 6401

Subsection (b) of section 6401 replaces subparagraphs (I) through (L) of section 10503(b)(2) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It sets $350,000,000 for fiscal year 2026 and $88,219,178 for the period from October 1, 2026 to December 31, 2026, and restates the 2024 and 2025 figures.

What the document actually says

“``(K) $350,000,000 for fiscal year 2026; and”

Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, Sec. 6401
That sentence, in plain words

For fiscal year 2026 the sum is $350,000,000.

What this is about

The corps pays off school loans for health workers. In return they work where workers are scarce. A further sum covers the three months after the year ends.

No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.

Teaching health centers get sums rising to $300,000,000 by fiscal year 2029

The document says “is amended”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 6401 in the PDF
What the document says

“``(G) $250,000,000 for fiscal year 2027; ``(H) $275,000,000 for fiscal year 2028; and ``(I) $300,000,000 for fiscal year 2029.''.”

Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, Sec. 6401

Subsection (c) of section 6401 replaces subparagraphs (D) through (G) of section 340H(g)(1) of the Public Health Service Act. It sets $225,000,000 for fiscal year 2026, $250,000,000 for 2027, $275,000,000 for 2028 and $300,000,000 for 2029, and restates the 2024 and 2025 figures.

What the document actually says

“``(G) $250,000,000 for fiscal year 2027; ``(H) $275,000,000 for fiscal year 2028; and ``(I) $300,000,000 for fiscal year 2029.''.”

Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, Sec. 6401
That sentence, in plain words

For 2027 the sum is $250,000,000. For 2028 it is $275,000,000. For 2029 it is $300,000,000.

What this is about

A teaching health center trains new doctors outside a hospital. The sums rise each year. This one runs three years past the others.

No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.

The amounts carry the requirements of Public Law 118-47

The document says “shall”Who acts: Secretary of Health and Human ServicesHow: statuteSec. 6401 in the PDF
What the document says

“Amounts appropriated pursuant to the amendments made by this section shall be subject to the requirements contained in Public Law 118-47 for funds for programs authorized under sections 330 through 340 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b et seq.).”

Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, Sec. 6401

Subsection (d) of section 6401 makes the amounts appropriated by the section subject to the requirements in Public Law 118-47 for funds for programs authorized under sections 330 through 340 of the Public Health Service Act. Subsection (e) makes a conforming amendment to section 3014(h)(4) of title 18, United States Code, adding a reference to this section.

What the document actually says

“Amounts appropriated pursuant to the amendments made by this section shall be subject to the requirements contained in Public Law 118-47 for funds for programs authorized under sections 330 through 340 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b et seq.).”

Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, Sec. 6401
That sentence, in plain words

The money in this part carries the rules set in an older law. Those rules cover funds for a set group of health programs.

What this is about

Rather than write the rules again, Congress points at a law that already holds them. The money then comes with the same strings.

No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.

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What This Page Covers, and What It Leaves Out

The five things the section does: reset the funding figures for community health centers, for the National Health Service Corps and for teaching health centers with graduate medical education programs, apply the requirements of Public Law 118-47 to the amounts, and make a conforming amendment in title 18.

The figures for fiscal years 2024 and 2025, which the section restates rather than changes.

The section amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Public Health Service Act. Neither is indexed here, so what these three programs do is not recorded on this site.