Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill boosts oversight, targeted defense and foreign-aid investments, and health and program transparency, but does so by locking funds into many earmarks and reporting mandates that increase administrative costs, reduce executive flexibility, raise near‑term taxpayer obligations, and constrain federal personnel and agency responsiveness.
Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act
The bill helps states expand material supports and counseling for pregnant people by clarifying access to federal block grants, but it risks steering taxpayer dollars to organizations that may limit abortion access, provide biased or lower-quality care, and divert funds from comprehensive clinics.
Do No Harm in Medicaid Act
The bill reduces federal Medicaid financial support for most gender-affirming care for minors—saving federal funds and clarifying billing rules for providers—while substantially restricting access to those services for low-income transgender youth and creating possible legal complications for non-binary/intersex patients.
Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act
The bill increases drug-price and PBM transparency and expands access to association health plans to lower costs and improve consumer visibility, but it also raises compliance costs, privacy and enforcement risks, and may weaken benefit comprehensiveness and state-level consumer protections.
Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026
This bill secures funding continuity and expands targeted services (notably for veterans, health care access, and rural programs) for early FY2026 while trading off higher federal outlays, weakened budget enforcement and oversight, program rescissions, and added constraints and administrative burdens on agencies.
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill directs substantial new resources to veterans, rural communities, and military readiness while increasing oversight and targeting supports, but it also creates procurement, procedural, and research restrictions and sizable near‑term spending that could raise costs, slow agency action, and constrain flexibility.
To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.
This package delivers sizable tax relief, defense/industrial and targeted domestic investments while tightening immigration and benefit rules and expanding fossil fuel development — producing near‑term financial and program gains for many Americans at the cost of higher federal spending, greater compliance burdens, and increased risks to climate, coverage, and immigrant access.
Charlotte Woodward Organ Transplant Discrimination Prevention Act
Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act
The bill makes more preventive items explicitly tax-free for HSA/Archer MSA users (helping chronic patients and reducing audit uncertainty) at the cost of locking in current guidance—reducing future flexibility—while creating some administrative burden and modest revenue loss.
Declaring racism a public health crisis.
Declaring racism a federal public‑health crisis would mobilize federal resources and improve data to reduce racial health disparities, but it could require new spending, provoke political or legal resistance that slows implementation, and impose administrative costs on institutions.
Designating November 2025 as "National Homeless Children and Youth Awareness Month".
The resolution increases awareness of youth homelessness and may spur targeted education and social-service responses, but without new funding or capacity those heightened expectations risk leaving vulnerable families unsupported and straining existing providers.
Supporting the goals and principles of Transgender Day of Remembrance by recognizing the epidemic of violence toward transgender people and memorializing the lives lost this year.
The resolution raises federal recognition of anti-transgender violence and calls for protections, data, and awareness that can benefit transgender people’s health and rights, but as a nonbinding measure it risks unmet expectations, possible state-level backlash, and potential fiscal implications if implemented into programs.
Honoring the life of Dr. Paul Farmer by recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to adopt a 21st century global health solidarity strategy and take actions to address past and ongoing harms that undermine the health and well-being of people around the world.
The bill would expand U.S. investment and leadership in global health—potentially saving lives and lowering pandemic risk worldwide—but it would raise U.S. aid spending and risks limited long-term impact or short-term disruption if underlying structural issues and program transitions are not addressed.
Recognizing the important work of the United States Preventive Services Task Force.
The resolution preserves no‑cost access to Task Force‑recommended preventive services and keeps federal evidence‑review structures in place, but funding cuts, potential politicization, and meeting delays risk weakening the quality, timeliness, and public trust in preventive guidance.
Supporting the goals and ideals of National Nurses Week, to be observed from May 6 through May 12, 2025.
The resolution publicly honors nurses and highlights their public‑health role and workforce size, but is purely symbolic and does not provide funding or policy changes to address staffing, pay, or working‑condition challenges.
Supporting the goals and ideals of "National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day".
The resolution raises awareness of youth HIV disparities and reaffirms existing programs and ACA protections, but it is nonbinding and provides no new funding or mandates, so it risks improving visibility without delivering concrete resources or services.
End Taxpayer Funding of Gender Experimentation Act of 2025
The bill reduces federal spending on gender‑transition procedures and preserves employer flexibility to offer unsubsidized coverage, but it restricts access to gender‑affirming care for people reliant on federal programs and shifts costs and administrative burdens onto individuals, states, insurers, and some employers.
Insurance Fraud Accountability Act
The bill tightens consumer protections, fraud detection, and enrollment transparency in the Exchanges—helping vulnerable enrollees keep coverage—but raises compliance costs and substantial legal risk for agents, which could reduce available enrollment assistance and cause short-term disruptions.
Honor Our Living Donors Act
The bill expands and clarifies donor reimbursement and increases transparency to identify and fix shortfalls, but it also narrows some statutory program coverage and creates administrative, legal, and potential fiscal pressures that could delay or complicate implementation.
Medicare Dental, Hearing, and Vision Expansion Act of 2025
The bill expands Medicare coverage for dental, hearing, and vision services and eases short‑term cost burdens and access through provider expansion and implementation funding, but retains cost‑sharing, caps, frequency limits and payment formulas that may leave gaps in coverage, strain provider participation, increase administrative complexity, and lead to higher beneficiary or federal costs over time.
Protecting Pharmacies in Medicaid Act
The bill increases transparency and redirects Medicaid drug payments to better match actual pharmacy acquisition costs—reducing waste and improving provider payment—but does so with new reporting requirements, waived procedural safeguards, potential disclosure of proprietary pricing, and risks of funding disruptions or cost shifts to states and beneficiaries.
Do No Harm Act
The bill prioritizes preservation of nondiscrimination, healthcare access, and worker protections by narrowing the availability of RFRA defenses—strengthening rights and services for many Americans while reducing religious‑liberty defenses and raising compliance, funding, and litigation risks for faith‑based entities and some contractors.
Bipartisan Health Care Act
This bill increases federal funding, public‑health preparedness, Medicaid and primary‑care supports, and major transparency and oversight of drug pricing and PBM practices to improve access and accountability—at the tradeoff of substantial new reporting and compliance burdens, privacy and proprietary risks, possible market consolidation, and higher federal outlays that could raise costs for some providers, plans, and taxpayers.
HELP Copays Act
The bill reduces patients' out‑of‑pocket exposure and preserves HSA access by counting third‑party drug assistance toward cost‑sharing, but shifts short‑term costs onto plans and risks reducing or reshaping assistance and increasing administrative barriers to access.
Genomic Data Protection Act
The bill strengthens individual control and federal enforcement over consumer genomic data and adds privacy safeguards for research use, while leaving legal retention exceptions, imposing compliance costs, and allowing potential state-level regulatory fragmentation.
Royalty Transparency Act
The bill strengthens transparency and congressional oversight of financial conflicts (especially royalty disclosures) for advisory members, contractors, and grantees—improving accountability—but does so at the cost of increased privacy intrusion, administrative burdens, and compliance costs that could deter experts and divert agency resources.
Family Building FEHB Fairness Act
The bill expands and standardizes fertility-related coverage for federal employees—reducing out-of-pocket costs and clarifying benefits—while increasing costs for taxpayers/premiums and creating short-term administrative burdens and potential ethical disputes.
Public Health Funding Restoration Act
The bill secures predictable, multi-year funding to strengthen public-health prevention, surveillance, and preparedness—potentially improving population health and producing net savings—while creating a recurring federal cost that may increase budgetary pressure and reduce fiscal flexibility for other priorities.
Telehealth Expansion Act of 2025
The bill protects HSA eligibility and promotes telehealth access by allowing waived telehealth deductibles while trading off higher plan costs and a risk that more services will be carved out of deductibles, which could raise overall health spending.
Kids’ Access to Primary Care Act of 2025
The bill increases Medicaid payment rates for primary care—boosting provider pay and likely improving access for beneficiaries—while creating meaningful new costs for States and risking unintended access limits or administrative complications, with a modestly funded study intended to inform future policy.
