To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize a grant program for addressing dental workforce needs.

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Dental Workforce Grant Program Reauthorization

Reauthorizes the Section 340G dental workforce grant program under the Public Health Service Act by replacing the expired fiscal years 2019–2023 authorization of $13,903,000 per year with a new authorization of $15,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030, with funds remaining available until expended.

• Population Scope Low The program directly reaches dental workforce training grantees — a narrow institutional population, not a broad share of the U.S. public.
• Budgetary Magnitude Low Authorizes $15,000,000 per year for five years ($75,000,000 total), a modest discretionary authorization at the lower end of federal program funding.
• Legal / Regulatory Depth Low Reauthorizing an existing grant program at a revised dollar amount is a narrow administrative continuation, not a new statutory mandate or substantive legal change.
• Degree of Discretion Granted Medium The authorization sets a funding ceiling but leaves the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with existing discretion over grant selection, distribution, and program design inherited from the underlying Section 340G framework.
• Implementation & Enforcement Burden Low No new enforcement mechanisms, penalties, or compliance requirements are created; the provision only adjusts an authorization level within an existing grant structure.
• Temporal Commitment Low The authorization runs only through fiscal year 2030, a fixed end date within ten years that self-terminates unless Congress acts to extend it again.