EMILY PREST

Draft Higher Education Act Reauthorization Issues: Support affordable income driven repayment plans for borrowers and the ability for student borrowers to borrow up to the cost of attendance. Oppose cuts to graduate/professional student loan and repayment plans, including Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and elimination of Direct PLUS loans. H.R.4985/S.3175 - Expanding Medical Education Act Issue: Support grants to create, expand, and support medical schools and regional medical campuses, including minority serving institutions (MSIs). Draft Pathway to Practice Act Issue: Support Pathway to Practice medical school scholarships and graduate medical education (GME) positions for underrepresented students. Draft National Medical Corps Act Issue: Support improving the pathway from community college to careers in medicine. S.4744 - Foreign Medical School Accountability Fairness Act Issue: Support improving the accountability of foreign medical schools receiving federal student aid. Issue: Educate Congress and the administration on the impact of medical education debt on career decisions like specialty choice. Issue: Support the elimination of taxes on non-tuition student scholarship and grant aid. H.R.6585 - Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act Issue: Oppose limiting financial aid access for students at institutions subject to the endowment tax. H.R.6077 - Protecting Our Students by Terminating Graduate Rates that Add to Debt (POST GRAD) Act Issue: Support reinstating graduate student eligibility for Federal Direct Subsidized Loans. H.R.6951 - College Cost Reduction Act Issue: Oppose elimination of DirectPLUS loans and other limitations on graduate/professional borrowing. Support eliminating student loan origination fees and interest capitalization. H.R.7725/S.4115 - Embracing anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curricula, and Advancing Truth in Education (EDUCATE) Act Issue: Oppose policies that interfere with medical education, curriculum autonomy, and prohibit graduate medical schools from receiving federal financial assistance if they or accrediting associations adopt certain policies and requirements relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion. H.Res.1180 - Recognizing the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in medical education. Issue: Support efforts to increase awareness and recognize the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in medical education. Issue: Support loan repayment incentives for rural health care providers. Issue: Support tax incentives for clinical preceptors. H.R.8070 Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 Issue: Oppose amendments to NDAA that would attach the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act and DETERRENT Act. Issue: Support Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility for enrollees in income driven loan repayment programs, including SAVE. Issue: Support delay in implementation of reporting requirement in financial value transparency and gainful employment regulations. H.R. 8932 FAFSA Deadline Act Issue: Support bill codifying FAFSA release date.

H.R. 6980/S.2719 - Directing Our Countrys Transfer of Residency Slots (DOCTORS) Act Issue: Educate Congress on policies related to amending the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the reallocation of unused waivers of the foreign residency requirement for certain J visa holders. H.R.4942/S.665 - Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act Issue: Support expansion of the Conrad 30 program and improvements to physician immigration. H.R.4875 - Doctors in our Borders Act Issue: Support expansion of the Conrad 30 program and improvements to physician immigration. Educate Congress on policies allowing undocumented students to attend U.S. medical schools and graduate medical education. H.R.6205/S.3211 - Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act Issue: Support reduction of green card backlogs for health professionals. Issue: Support permanent protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.

H.R.3046/S.1403 - Medical Student Education Authorization Act of 2023 Issue: Support grants for primary care training in medically under-resourced communities. Draft Social Determinants Accelerator Act Issue: Support grants to address social determinants of health. H.R.9161/S.4773 - Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2024 Issue: Support programs to improve health equity and address social determinants of health. S.2333 - Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Response Act H.R.4420 - Preparedness and Response Reauthorization Act H.R.4421 - Preparing for All Hazards and Pathogens Reauthorization Act H.R.4697 - Protecting PAHPA Act of 2023 Issues: Support the reauthorization of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act with increased funding authorization levels. Issue: Support authorities to strengthen CDCs and ASPRs ability to prevent and respond to existing and emerging threats. S.1995 - Public Health Infrastructure Saves Lives Act Issue: Support investments in core public health infrastructure. Issue: Educate Congress on how the 340B Drug Pricing Program helps safety-net providers to fulfill their missions and care for patients and communities. Support measures to preserve and strengthen the 340B Drug Pricing Program. Oppose efforts to reduce the scope of the program and transition 340B into a rebate model. H.R.2534 - Preserving Rules Ordered for the Entities Covered Through 340B Act of 2023 (PROTECT 340B Act) Issue: Support measures to prevent pharmacy benefit managers and commercial insurers from imposing discriminatory reimbursement policies on 340B covered entities. H.R.7635 - 340B Pharmaceutical Access to Invest in Essential, Needed Treatments and Support (340B PATIENTS) Act Issue: Support amending the 340B statute to codify covered entities ability to use contract pharmacies. H.R.3290 - To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to ensure transparency and oversight of the 340B drug discount program. Issue: Oppose efforts to impose additional reporting requirements on 340B hospitals. Draft Supporting Underserved and Strengthening Transparency, Accountability, and Integrity Now and for the Future of 340B (SUSTAIN 340B) Act Issue: Support efforts to prohibit pharmaceutical and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) discrimination against covered entities. Oppose efforts to define patient in the context of the program. Oppose efforts to impose additional administrative and reporting requirements on 340B hospitals. H.R.8574 - 340B ACCESS Act Issue: Oppose efforts to restrict hospital eligibility for the 340B program. Issue: Oppose insurance plans that do not meet Affordable Care Act requirements. Issue: Support policies to improve maternal health outcomes through expanded Medicaid coverage, enhanced data collection, and improved access to behavioral health care during the perinatal period. P.L. 118-159 - Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 S.4638 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 Issue: Oppose prohibition on coverage for gender affirming care. H.R.2369 - Verifying Accurate Leading-edge IVCT Development (VALID) Act of 2023 Issue: Educate Congress on development of laboratory developed tests (LDTs) at academic medical centers and oppose policies that would increase burdensome regulations and negatively impact patients access to care by allowing FDA regulation of the development of LDTs at academic medical centers. Issue: Educate Congress on the medical education and training continuum, the annual residency Match, and the role of the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) in medical education and residency. Issue: Provide guidance on the implementation of the No Surprises Act (P.L.116-260). Issue: Educate Congress and the administration on the role of academic medicine in the provision of mental and behavioral health care, including initiatives to respond to the opioid epidemic. Support policies to strengthen the behavioral health workforce, promote the uptake of integrated behavioral health models, advance mental health research, and ensure access to coverage and care. Issue: Educate Congress about the financial challenges facing academic medical centers, including reimbursement challenges, workforce challenges, inflation, and others. Issue: Educate Congress and the administration about the impact of the unwinding of the COVID-19 public health emergency on the academic medicine community and the patients they serve. H.R.3887 - Childrens Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2023 H.R.3841 - To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the program of payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate medical education programs. Issue: Support clean reauthorization of the Childrens Hospital GME program. Issue: Support reauthorization of the National Health Service Corps and Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education. Issue: Express concern regarding actions to inappropriately undermine FDA regulatory authority. Issue: Educate Congress and the administration about medical education on nutrition, hunger, and health; reproductive health; substance use disorders; medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorders; trans health; preventing fraud and abuse; diversity, equity, and inclusion; menopause management; health care for people with disabilities; and maternal health. Issue: Educate Congress and the administration about resident physician practice decision making post US SCOTUS decision in Dobbs. Issue: Educate Congress on resident expectations related to clinical practice and oppose so-called physician service mandates. H.R.7855 - Rural Residency Planning and Development Act of 2024 Issue: Support codification of HRSAs rural residency planning and development program. Issue: Support providing discretionary funds for rural teaching hospitals to expand their residency programs. Issue: Educate Congress on vaccine safety. Issue: Encourage changes to HRSA financial aid programs as a result of FAFSA updates. Issue: Educate Congress on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in academic medicine. S.4031 - Providing Resources and Opportunities for Health Education and Learning (PRO-HEAL) Act Issue: Support HRSA grants to expand provider pipeline programs to create pathways to health care careers. H.R.7258/S.3968 - Community Training, Education, and Access for Medical Education, and Access for Medical Students (TEAMS) Act Issue: Support enhanced community-based training opportunities for medical students, particularly in rural and medically underserved areas, and fostering long-term sustainable physician practices in high-need communities. H.R.7153/S.3673 - Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization Act Issue: Support ability of HRSA to implement evidenced-based practices for preventing suicide and improving mental health and resiliency among health care professionals, and for training health care professionals in appropriate strategies to address substance use disorders. Issue: Provide input on Next Generation Cures initiative. Issue: Promote overdose prevention. H.R. 10047 The Closing the Substance Use Care Gap Act Issue: Support extension of SAMHSA harm reduction programs.

Issue: Support preservation of nonprofit tax status for AAMC members teaching health systems and hospitals with federal non-profit status. Issue: Educate Congress and policymakers on academic medical centers, teaching health systems and hospitals, medical schools, and faculty physicians unique role in patient care, education, research, and community collaboration. Explain the societal and community benefits related to such activities. Issue: Support tax-exempt status for higher education institutions. H.R.7418 Harley Jacobsen Clinical Trial Participant Income Exemption Act Issue: Support exempting from taxable income compensation for clinical trial participation. H.R. 10280 Strengthening Pathways to Health Professions Act Issue: Support extending tax-exempt status to certain Health Resources and Services Administration health workforce education scholarship and loan programs. H.R. 3435/ S. 566 Charitable Act Issue: Support tax incentives for charitable contributions. Issue: Support incentives for clinicians volunteering to be preceptors for medical students.

P.L.118-42 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, Division A Title II, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 Issue: Support funding for the VA medical and prosthetic research program. Support allocation of resources to VA to address funding shortfall. P.L.118-5 - Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 Issue: Oppose cuts to discretionary spending. Issue: Ensure robust non-defense discretionary spending levels and for the Labor HHS spending bill. S.862 - Restoring Americas Health Care Workforce and Readiness Act Issue: Support extension of National Health Service Corps funding. Issue: Support providing discretionary funds for rural teaching hospitals to expand their residency programs. P.L. 118-158 American Relief Act 2025 S.4942 - Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 H.R.9029 - Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 FY 2025 Presidents Budget Request on Health and Human Services Issue: Support increased funding for National Institutes of Health (NIH), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Childrens Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Hospital Preparedness Program, and biodefense, emerging special pathogens and public health preparedness programs. Support mandatory funding for public health preparedness. Oppose limitations on facilities and administrative reimbursement and on salary support. Maintain NIH salary cap at Executive Level II. Support animal research and oppose efforts to increase burden on researchers unnecessarily. Ensure investment in Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) does not supplant NIH funding. Support funding for Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Title VII and VIII workforce programs. Support funding for CDC Social Determinants of Health program (SDOH), Prevention Research Centers, hospital-based and community violence interventions, data modernization, advanced molecular detection, outbreak forecasting, and climate and health, and gun violence prevention research. Support ongoing investment in public health infrastructure. Support funding for maternal health. Support expansion of CDC-supported genomic sequencing. Support robust 302(b) allocation and funding for non-defense discretionary programs. Support funding for telehealth resource centers. Support funding for the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) and Teaching Health Centers Graduate Medical Education (THCGME). S.4942/ H.R. 9029 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 H.R.8771/ S. 4797 Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2025 Issue: Oppose efforts to limit certain types of medical research. H.R.9026 - House FY 2025 Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Spending Bill S.4795 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 Issue: Support funding for the National Science Foundation. FY 2025 Presidents Request on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies H.R.8580 FY 2025 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs (VA), and Related Agencies Appropriations Act S.4677 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 Issue: Support increased funding for the VA Medical and Prosthetic Research Program and funding to preserve animal research. Support allocation of resources to VA to address funding shortfall. FY 2026 Presidents Request on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Issue: Support increased funding for the VA Medical and Prosthetic Research Program and funding to preserve animal research. H.R.485 - Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act of 2023 Issue: Preserve funding for the Prevention and Public Health Fund. S.2840 - Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act Issue: Oppose cuts to the Prevention and Public Health Fund. Support workforce investments and extension of National Health Service Corps funding. Oppose policies restricting insurance contracting terms and limiting the collection of facility fees. Issue: Prevent rescissions of COVID relief funding. Issue: Support restoration and continuation of funding for the 21st Century Cures Act. P.L.118-83 - Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 Issue: Support continuing resolution. H.R. 10445 - Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2025 P.L. 118-158 American Relief Act, 2025 Issue: Urge congress to finalize FY2025 funding and maintain government operations and programs.

Draft Higher Education Act Reauthorization Issues: Support affordable income driven repayment plans for borrowers and the ability for student borrowers to borrow up to the cost of attendance. Oppose cuts to graduate/professional student loan and repayment plans, including Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and elimination of Direct PLUS loans. H.R.4985/S.3175 - Expanding Medical Education Act Issue: Support grants to create, expand, and support medical schools and regional medical campuses, including minority serving institutions (MSIs). Draft Pathway to Practice Act Issue: Support Pathway to Practice medical school scholarships and graduate medical education (GME) positions for underrepresented students. Draft National Medical Corps Act Issue: Support improving the pathway from community college to careers in medicine. S.4744 - Foreign Medical School Accountability Fairness Act Issue: Support improving the accountability of foreign medical schools receiving federal student aid. Issue: Educate Congress and the administration on the impact of medical education debt on career decisions like specialty choice. Issue: Support the elimination of taxes on non-tuition student scholarship and grant aid. H.R.6585 - Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act Issue: Oppose limiting financial aid access for students at institutions subject to the endowment tax. H.R.6077 - Protecting Our Students by Terminating Graduate Rates that Add to Debt (POST GRAD) Act Issue: Support reinstating graduate student eligibility for Federal Direct Subsidized Loans. H.R.6951 - College Cost Reduction Act Issue: Oppose elimination of DirectPLUS loans and other limitations on graduate/professional borrowing. Support eliminating student loan origination fees and interest capitalization. H.R.7725/S.4115 - Embracing anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curricula, and Advancing Truth in Education (EDUCATE) Act Issue: Oppose policies that interfere with medical education, curriculum autonomy, and prohibit graduate medical schools from receiving federal financial assistance if they or accrediting associations adopt certain policies and requirements relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion. H.Res.1180 - Recognizing the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in medical education. Issue: Support efforts to increase awareness and recognize the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in medical education. Issue: Support loan repayment incentives for rural health care providers. Issue: Support tax incentives for clinical preceptors. H.R.8070 Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 Issue: Oppose amendments to NDAA that would attach the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act and DETERRENT Act. Issue: Support Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility for enrollees in income driven loan repayment programs, including SAVE.

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES