RURAL Healthcare Act
Reported from committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Reported from committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Jul 21, 2026
What it does
The RURAL Healthcare Act would classify qualified locum tenens professionals and advanced care practitioners as independent contractors rather than employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and the National Labor Relations Act. This change would affect healthcare workers providing temporary physician or advanced care services—such as nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified registered nurse anesthetists—when working under written contracts for up to one continuous year at a single site. As a result, these workers would not be entitled to employee protections like minimum wage, overtime pay, or collective bargaining rights under those federal laws when performing…
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Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Current step)
Floor (Not started)
Law (Not started)
What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.