To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the school-based health centers grant program.

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Reauthorize School-Based Health Centers Grant Funding

This provision amends Section 399Z–1(m) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280h–5) to replace the expiring authorization for school-based health center grants — previously 'such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2022 through 2026' — with a specific authorization of $55,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031, extending and quantifying federal funding for the program.

• Population Scope Low Beneficiaries are students and families served by school-based health centers, a small subset of the U.S. population concentrated in participating schools.
• Budgetary Magnitude Low $55 million per year is a modest discretionary authorization; total five-year exposure is $275 million, a relatively small federal program.
• Legal / Regulatory Depth Low Substituting a new dollar figure and time window into an existing authorization 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 does not mandate appropriation, leaving the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) discretion over grant awards within the existing program structure.
• Implementation & Enforcement Burden Low No new enforcement mechanisms, compliance requirements, or penalties are created; administration continues under existing grant program rules.
• Temporal Commitment Low Authorization expires at the end of FY2031, a hard endpoint within ten years that self-terminates absent further congressional action.