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This bill establishes the "Health Training Corps Act" to create a Health Training Corps within the Department of Health, aiming to address healthcare shortages in underserved areas by incentivizing experienced health professionals to train new ones. A "health care underserved area" is defined as a location where the Department of Health determines there aren't enough healthcare services, and a "health professional" includes licensed doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurse-midwives, and social workers, while a "health professional student" is someone training to become one. The Corps will recruit and place "preceptors" – experienced health professionals who guide and supervise students and newly licensed professionals – at "health training sites," which are facilities in underserved areas offering clinical experience. To encourage participation, preceptors will receive a stipend of $100 per hour for their training, with a yearly cap of $10,000, and they must document their supervision. The bill also creates a dedicated "health training corps fund" to support these efforts, including recruiting, training, and paying stipends to preceptors, and appropriates $3 million to this fund for fiscal year 2027 and beyond, with any remaining funds not reverting to the general fund at the end of a fiscal year.

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