[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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