Round voting button logo

H.R.2936

Addressing Boarding and Crowding in the Emergency Department

Introduced·4/17/25

Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow grants for modernizing public health data systems to track hospital bed capacity.

The Addressing Boarding and Crowding in the Emergency Department Act of 2025 amends the Public Health Service Act to allow certain public health data modernization grants to be used for tracking hospital bed capacity. It mandates the development of state- or region-wide, real-time systems to monitor hospital capacity, emergency department boarding rates, wait times for treatment, and the time emergency medical services personnel wait to offload patients.

Included in complete analysis

  • Overview
  • Core Provisions
  • Implementation
  • Impact
  • Legal Framework
  • Critical Issues

See what it does, who it affects, and the critical issues in plain language. Free, 30 seconds.

Where it stands

Current
Energy And Commerce Committee
Next
Committee decision

Sponsors

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
24
9
RRRRRRRRR
Democratic CaucusRepublican Caucus

History

Apr 17, 2025

House

Introduced in House

Apr 17, 2025

House

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.