SPARC Act has not moved since its introduction on Apr 9, 2025, with cosponsors from both parties
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 117 words.
Specialty Physicians Advancing Rural Care Act or the SPARC Act This bill establishes student loan repayment programs to support the provision of specialty medical care in rural areas. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) must carry out such a program for specialty medicine physicians (i.e., practicing in an area other than primary care) who provide care in rural communities with shortages of such physicians. Physicians must agree to a period of obligated service and, for each year of such service, HRSA must pay one-sixth of the principal payment and interest on eligible loans up to a maximum cap of $250,000. Additionally, HRSA may carry out a similar loan repayment program for nonphysician specialty health care providers.
- Committees
- Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
- Policy area
- Health: 122 of 9,357 bills became law, 113th–118th (1.3%)
- Sponsor
- 5 of 243 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in senate · 1,093 words
- Subjects
- Government lending and loan guaranteesHealth personnelHigher educationRural conditions and developmentStudent aid and college costs
- Latest action
- Mar 19, 2026: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 1 in all.
Identical or companion · 1
- 119th H.R. 4681 SPARC Act R · Introduced