S. 5099 — A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize a grant program for addressing dental workforce needs.

This section increases annual funding for the dental workforce grant program to $15 million (from $13,903,000) for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2031 (from fiscal years 2019 through 2023), with amounts remaining available until expended. The program awards grants to states to address dentist shortages in designated health professional shortage areas through loan repayment, recruitment, residency expansion, and related activities.