119-hr5858

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5858 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 5858

 To make it easier for rural health facilities to buy and upgrade 
 preventative health care equipment through the Community Facilities 
 Grant Program of the Department of Agriculture.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 October 28, 2025

 Ms. Scholten (for herself and Mrs. Hinson) introduced the following 
 bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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 A BILL

 To make it easier for rural health facilities to buy and upgrade 
 preventative health care equipment through the Community Facilities 
 Grant Program of the Department of Agriculture.

 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 ``Community Access to Treatment and 
Care for Health through Increased Testing Act'' or the ``CATCH IT 
Act''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN FEDERAL SHARE OF COST OF PREVENTATIVE HEALTH CARE 
 EQUIPMENT FOR RURAL HEALTH FACILITY UNDER THE COMMUNITY 
 FACILITIES GRANT PROGRAM.

 

Section 306

    (a)

    (19)
        (B) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926

    (a)

    (19)
        (B) ) is amended--

    (1) in clause
            (iii) , by adding at the end the following: 
 ``The Federal share determined under the preceding sentence 
 shall be increased by 25 percentage points if the development 
 of the facility includes the purchase or upgrading of 
 preventative health care equipment.''; and

    (2) by adding at the end the following:
 ``
            (iv) Preventative health care equipment 
 defined.--In clause
            (iii) , the term 
 `preventative health care equipment' includes 
 equipment such as the following:
 ``
            (I) Advanced breast imaging 
 equipment that may be used in a digital 
 breast tomosynthesis or 3-dimensional 
 mammography.
 ``
            (II) Mobile cancer screening 
 unit.
 ``
            (III) Laboratory equipment that 
 may be used in multi-cancer early 
 detection or diagnostic cancer 
 screening.
 ``
            (IV) Colorectal cancer screening 
 equipment.
 ``
            (V) Computerized tomography 
 scanner.
 ``
            (VI) Diagnostic ultrasound 
 equipment.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

 The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the 1st day of 
the 1st Federal fiscal year that begins on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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