Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
National Plan for Epilepsy Act
The bill centralizes and coordinates federal action on epilepsy — improving research, care, and patient input — but will likely require new spending, create administrative and privacy burdens, and may take time to deliver benefits unless further statutory changes are made.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
The bill funds broad improvements to military readiness, health care, industrial base resilience, and technology adoption—but does so at the cost of higher federal spending, increased administrative and reporting burdens, privacy and oversight risks, and potential supply‑chain and competition tradeoffs.
Putting Patients First by Strengthening Provider Accountability in FECA Act
The bill strengthens FECA program integrity and protects taxpayer funds by allowing suspension of payments to convicted providers, but it risks disrupting care for injured federal employees and creating administrative burdens or unfair exclusions if suspensions are applied too broadly or before full review.
Accelerating Access to Dementia and Alzheimer’s Provider Training Act
The bill clarifies and preserves eligibility and authorization for public and nonprofit health-related entities through FY2027–FY2031, but it does not provide immediate funding and the program remains vulnerable unless future appropriations are enacted.
Action for Dental Health Act
The bill provides modest, multi-year, flexible funding for HHS public health programs through FY2030 to bolster preparedness, at the cost of a small annual increase in federal outlays and potential timing risks for grantees if appropriations are not aligned.
Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens coordination, transparency, and direct supports for older adults (behavioral health, caregivers, nutrition, tribal elders, abuse prevention) but does so at the cost of substantial new administrative requirements, potential funding strains and reallocations, and some privacy, equity, and oversight trade-offs.
To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the telehealth network and telehealth resource centers grant programs.
The bill authorizes multi-year funding to sustain and expand telehealth access—benefiting rural patients, hospitals, and the telehealth workforce—while carrying risks of uncertain actual appropriation, uneven access favoring larger providers, and modest additional federal cost.
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.
To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish qualifications for the appointment of a person as a marriage and family therapist, qualified to provide clinical supervision, in the Veterans Health Administration.
The bill expands veterans' access to supervised MFT services and eases VA hiring by allowing nationally AAMFT-approved supervisors without state authorization, at the cost of potential variation from state supervision standards and modest added administrative complexity and expense for the VA.
VetPAC Act of 2025
Creates an independent commission to deliver timely, expert reviews and recommendations to improve VHA care and congressional oversight, while imposing new federal costs and raising potential privacy, procurement, and governance concerns that require safeguards.
ARCA Act of 2025
The bill centralizes and professionalizes VA acquisition to improve reliability, oversight, and fiscal discipline—likely reducing cost overruns and improving services for veterans—while trading increased bureaucracy, upfront costs, transition risk, potential delays, and narrower contractor competition (plus the risk that some repealed authorities reduce existing veteran protections).
Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026
This bill preserves short‑term program continuity, emergency response capacity, and targeted health/veterans support, but does so by extending prior funding levels, rescinding balances, constraining agency flexibility, and weakening budget transparency — trading immediate stability for greater fiscal and operational constraints going forward.
Uniformed Services Leave Parity Act
The bill clarifies and extends Title 10 leave benefits to Commissioned Public Health Service officers and streamlines statutory language, trading clearer parity and reduced legal ambiguity for modest added personnel costs and some short-term administrative disruption.
Rural Veterans’ Improved Access to Benefits Act of 2025
The bill improves veterans' timely access to disability exams and increases VA flexibility by expanding temporary contracting authority and requiring oversight, but it raises costs, risks of uneven quality, and may prolong reliance on contractors instead of building a permanent VA clinical workforce.
Health Professionals Scholarship Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill trades targeted, faster VA clinician hiring and improved patient/staff health from a clear smoke-free policy and more oversight against reduced placement flexibility for providers, added administrative/enforcement costs, potential inconvenience for veterans who smoke, and uncertainty from a short statutory sunset.
TRAVEL Act of 2025
The bill expands short-term VA medical staffing and preserves pension-limit relief for veterans (especially in U.S. territories), improving access and avoiding immediate benefit disruption while modestly increasing federal costs and introducing risks to continuity of care and administrative workload.
Women Veterans Cancer Care Coordination Act
The bill aims to improve coordination, timeliness, and oversight of cancer care for affected veterans while avoiding immediate pension-rule disruptions, but it raises costs for VA/taxpayers, privacy and notification risks for veterans, and the possibility of uneven implementation that could leave rural veterans behind.
Mental Health in Aviation Act of 2025
The bill aims to reduce stigma and modernize aviation mental‑health certification—potentially improving safety and speeding reinstatements—while redirecting recurring FAA funds and imposing administrative changes that could raise costs, introduce transitional uncertainty, and leave some pilots wary of career impacts.
No Wrong Door for Veterans Act
The bill expands suicide-crisis access, funds prevention grants, extends short-term pension stability, and adds prosthetics coverage for veterans—improving care and rehabilitation—while increasing federal costs, imposing implementation burdens, and creating near-term funding/policy uncertainty.
Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025
The bill funds a wide range of government, defense, veterans, health, and infrastructure programs to avoid service disruptions and maintain near‑term public safety and benefits, but does so with sizable supplemental spending, short-term extensions, expanded waiver authorities, and reduced fiscal/oversight constraints that raise deficit risk and limit long‑term certainty and congressional control.
Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
The bill guarantees equal legal status and mandatory life‑preserving medical care for infants born alive after attempted abortions and increases enforcement and private remedies for women, but does so by substantially expanding civil and criminal liability, reporting requirements, and federal enforcement in ways that raise costs, legal risk, and chilling effects for clinicians and providers.
Recognizing 2026 as "The Year of The Power of Nurses" in Celebration of the 130th Anniversary of the American Nurses Association.
The resolution raises the visibility and morale of nurses by honoring them and the ANA, but it is purely ceremonial and provides no funding or concrete policy changes.
Designating November 2025 as "National Hospice and Palliative Care Month".
The bill promotes broader access, training, and volunteer support for palliative and hospice care—potentially improving end-of-life services—but does not fund or guarantee expanded availability, which could raise expectations and shift burdens onto patients and families where services are lacking.
Designating November 20, 2025, as "National Rural Health Day".
The resolution raises the profile of rural health and creates a focal day for outreach, but it is symbolic and does not provide funding or policy changes to address the underlying problems.
Designating the first full week in May as "Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week".
The bill improves detection, education, and access to treatment for tardive dyskinesia—potentially reducing harm for people on antipsychotics—at the cost of higher short‑term program and treatment expenses and a risk of increased stigma or unintended impacts on antipsychotic use.
Designating the week beginning September 7, 2025, as "National Direct Support Professionals Week".
The bill prioritizes better federal tracking and recognition of direct care occupations to improve supports for people with disabilities and workforce planning, but the change could slow immediate fixes and may lead to increased federal costs.
Expressing the sense of the Senate that Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. does not have the confidence of the Senate or of the American people to faithfully carry out the duties of his office and should be removed from his position.
The resolution trades potential short-term budgetary savings and administrative consolidation at HHS for deep cuts and workforce disruptions that risk public-health capacity, ongoing research, and services for vulnerable populations.
Supporting the designation of the week of August 25 through August 29, 2025, as the third annual "National Community Health Worker Awareness Week".
The bill formalizes and supports community health workers—likely improving outreach, health outcomes, and workforce stability—at the cost of added public funding needs and risks of credentialing or state-by-state disparities that could exclude grassroots workers and produce uneven access.
Recognizing that climate change poses a growing threat to public health and necessitates coordinated action to mitigate its impacts and safeguard the health and well-being of all people in the United States.
The resolution strengthens health-sector climate resilience, worker protections, and equity—improving patient access and encouraging energy savings—while requiring increased federal spending and imposing upfront costs on some providers and businesses.
Supporting the goals and ideals of National Nurses Week, to be observed from May 6 through May 12, 2025.
The resolution elevates and documents the importance and size of the nursing workforce—supporting planning and public-health priorities—but is purely symbolic and does not provide funding or binding measures to address the staffing, pay, or working-condition challenges it highlights.
