CATCH IT Act
H.R. 5858119th Congress

CATCH IT Act

Introduced in the HouseRep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI-3)12 sections · 1 min read
Version: Introduced in House · Oct 28, 2025

Section 1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Community Access to Treatment and Care for Health through Increased Testing Act or the CATCH IT Act.

Section 2. Increase in Federal share of cost of preventative health care equipment for rural health facility under the Community Facilities Grant Program

Section 306(a)(19)(B) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)(19)(B)) is amended—

(1) in clause (iii), by adding at the end the following: The Federal share determined under the preceding sentence shall be increased by 25 percentage points if the development of the facility includes the purchase or upgrading of preventative health care equipment.; and

(2) by adding at the end the following:

(iv) Preventative health care equipment defined

In clause (iii), the term preventative health care equipment includes equipment such as the following:

(I) Advanced breast imaging equipment that may be used in a digital breast tomosynthesis or 3-dimensional mammography.

(II) Mobile cancer screening unit.

(III) Laboratory equipment that may be used in multi-cancer early detection or diagnostic cancer screening.

(IV) Colorectal cancer screening equipment.

(V) Computerized tomography scanner.

(VI) Diagnostic ultrasound equipment.

Section 3. Effective date

The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the 1st day of the 1st Federal fiscal year that begins on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.

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