Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Streamline Emergency Care Act”.
Streamline Emergency Care Act
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 room operations.
Sec. 2 Grants for emergency room operations
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 room operations.
Eligible entities— In this section, the term eligible entity means a health care provider that—
is a nonprofit organization; and
at the time of applying for a grant under this section, is already operating an emergency room.
Amount— The amount of a grant under subsection (a) shall not exceed $500,000.
Use of funds— A grant received under this section may be used for any of the following:
The hiring of individuals to work in the emergency room.
The purchase of equipment to optimize and modernize emergency room capacity.
Triage and other training to increase the capacity of existing personnel to assist in the emergency room.
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.
Authorization of appropriations— To carry out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028.