119-s2650

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2650 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 2650

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the 
reallocation of unused waivers of the foreign residency requirement for 
 certain J-visa holders.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 August 1, 2025

 Ms. Ernst (for herself and Ms. Klobuchar) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
 Judiciary

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 A BILL

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the 
reallocation of unused waivers of the foreign residency requirement for 
 certain J-visa holders.

 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 ``Directing Our Country's Transfer of 
Residency Slots'' or the ``DOCTORS Act''.

SEC. 2. REALLOCATION OF UNUSED WAIVERS OF FOREIGN RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT 
 FOR CERTAIN J-VISA HOLDERS.

 

Section 214
            (l) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1184
            (l) ) is amended by adding at the end the following:
 ``

    (4)
        (A) Beginning on September 30, 2026, and every 
 September 30 thereafter, each State agency that received a 
 waiver under 

section 212

    (e) during the fiscal year that ends on 
 that date shall report to the Secretary of State the total 
 number of such waivers that the State agency did not use during 
 such fiscal year.
 ``
        (B)
            (i) For fiscal year 2026, and each fiscal year 
 thereafter, the Secretary of State shall--
 ``
            (I) calculate the total number of unused waivers 
 reported by all State agencies under subparagraph
        (A) ; 
 and
 ``
            (II) subject to clause
            (ii) , reallocate such 
 waivers for equal distribution among eligible State 
 agencies for use during the subsequent fiscal year as 
 waivers subject to paragraph

    (1)
            (D) 
            (ii) (referred to in 
 this paragraph as `supplemental waivers').
 ``
            (ii) The total number of supplemental waivers that may be 
 reallocated for use during a subsequent fiscal year shall be 
 the number that is \1/3\ of the difference between--
 ``
            (I) the total number of waivers under 

section 212

    (e) available for the fiscal year; and
 ``
            (II) the total number of waivers under 

section 212

    (e) distributed during such fiscal year.
 ``
            (C) In reallocating waivers under subparagraph
        (B) , on 
 January 1, 2026, and every January 1 thereafter, the Secretary 
 of State shall inform each eligible State agency of--
 ``
            (i) the number of supplemental waivers available 
 to the State agency for the subsequent fiscal year; and
 ``
            (ii) the manner in which the supplemental waivers 
 will be distributed.
 ``
            (D) Ten percent of supplemental waivers distributed in a 
 fiscal year shall be used to support positions in 1 or more 
 facilities that serve patients who reside in medically 
 underserved communities (as defined in 

section 799B of the 
 Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 295p)).
 ``
        (E) In this paragraph, the term `eligible State agency' 
 means a State agency that, in the preceding fiscal year, used 
 not fewer than 30 waivers under 

section 212

    (e) .''.
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