Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act of 2025
The bill aims to expand and better target PTSD and behavioral-health care for public-safety personnel—especially in rural and Tribal areas—by producing DOJ-informed program options and confidentiality-focused grants, but it may require new spending, impose implementation burdens on small/local agencies, and raise privacy and federal-vs-local control concerns.
Gerald E. Connolly Esophageal Cancer Awareness Act of 2025
The bill could improve early detection and prevention of esophageal cancer for higher‑risk people and give Congress better FEHBP spending data, but it risks higher screening costs, potential overdiagnosis and equity concerns while delivering only indirect, report‑based changes to care access.
988 Lifeline Location Improvement Act of 2026
The bill aims to improve 988 crisis response and accessibility through a coordinated study and committee while limiting near-term federal spending, but it risks delays, privacy trade-offs, operational disruption, and added costs that could fall on taxpayers, providers, or consumers.
Tyler’s Law
The bill prioritizes a cautious, evidence-driven federal approach—funding study, guidance, and privacy review to improve and standardize fentanyl testing in emergency departments—but does so at the cost of delayed implementation and potential patient costs, trust concerns, and operational burdens for hospitals.
Raising awareness and encouraging the prevention of stalking by designating January 2026 as "National Stalking Awareness Month".
This resolution raises awareness and promotes more services, campus prevention, and criminal-justice action against stalking—benefiting victims and students—while creating trade-offs around funding, increased policing impacts on vulnerable communities, and potential privacy concerns from efforts to address technology‑facilitated stalking.
DEFIANCE Act of 2025
The bill strengthens rights and remedies for people harmed by nonconsensual intimate deepfakes—providing recognition, injunctive relief, long statutes of limitation, and substantial monetary damages—while creating risks of broad liability, chilling speech and research, increased moderation and privacy trade-offs, and legal uncertainty for creators, platforms, and courts.
Designating November 2025 as "National Lung Cancer Awareness Month" and expressing support for early detection and treatment of lung cancer.
The resolution could boost lung cancer detection and access to precision treatments—improving outcomes for high‑risk adults and veterans—but will increase costs, strain providers, and may worsen existing access disparities unless funding and equity are actively addressed.
Recognizing the third commemoration of the anti-LGBTQ+ attack that occurred on November 19-20, 2022, at Club Q, an LGBTQ+ bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The resolution offers important symbolic recognition, awareness, and encouragement of community support for victims of an anti-LGBTQ+ attack, but it is nonbinding and does not secure funding or policy changes—meaning practical relief and reforms require additional legislative or appropriations action.
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.
SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill directs substantial new funding and program changes to expand prevention, treatment, and support for substance use and behavioral health—potentially improving access and capacity—while increasing federal spending, administrative requirements, and some legal/privacy risks that could complicate implementation and unevenly affect access across states.
Recognizing the seriousness of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and expressing support for the designation of September 2025 as "PCOS Awareness Month".
The resolution raises awareness and documents substantial health and economic harms from PCOS—potentially increasing diagnosis, mental‑health attention, and justification for funding—while stopping short of providing funding or policy changes, which may create unmet expectations and short‑term cost or stigma risks.
Mental Health in Aviation Act of 2025
The bill aims to improve aviation safety and increase pilots' access to mental-health care through research, training, delegation, funding, and transparency — but it raises taxpayer and industry costs, privacy and career concerns, and risks of inconsistent or rushed implementation if oversight and design are insufficient.
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025
This bill strengthens Coast Guard personnel, capabilities, victim support, and oversight while improving maritime safety, but does so at significant fiscal and administrative cost and with privacy, procedural, and operational trade‑offs that could burden personnel, operators, and taxpayers.
Shandra Eisenga Human Cell and Tissue Product Safety Act
To direct the Commandant of the Coast Guard to update the policy of the Coast Guard regarding the use of medication to treat drug overdose, and for other purposes.
The bill improves maritime safety and Coast Guard readiness by clarifying onboard drug offenses and expanding naloxone access and oversight, but it risks narrowing prosecutorial reach, adding costs, raising privacy concerns, and leaving some units with inadequate naloxone access.
No Wrong Door for Veterans Act
The bill improves near-term suicide-crisis care access and expands prosthetic and short-term pension protections for veterans, but it increases federal costs, creates added administrative burdens, and leaves longer-term funding and implementation uncertainties.
Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act
This bill would produce faster, more detailed data and recommendations to improve officer safety, equipment, training, and wellness—but it also creates notable administrative costs, privacy and civil‑liberties risks, potential budget pressures, and community trust concerns that must be managed.
Supporting the designation of May 29, 2025, as "Mental Health Awareness in Agriculture Day" to raise awareness around mental health in the agricultural industry and workforce and to continue to reduce stigma associated with mental illness.
The resolution raises awareness and gives policymakers justification to address rural and agricultural mental-health needs, but it does not provide funding or services and may heighten concern without delivering concrete help.
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.
Recognizing January 2025 as "National Mentoring Month".
The bill would expand and improve mentoring to boost education, mental-health, and career outcomes for many youth—particularly underserved groups—but may require new funding and oversight and could introduce private-sector priorities that produce uneven program quality.
Designating November 2025 as "National Hospice and Palliative Care Month".
The bill promotes greater awareness, training, and volunteer support for palliative and hospice care—potentially improving end-of-life care—but does not authorize funding or guarantees, risking unmet expectations and shifting burdens onto patients and families where services are unavailable.
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.
Designating November 2025 as "American Diabetes Month".
This resolution raises attention to diabetes to encourage earlier detection and targeted care for veterans and seniors, at the potential cost of prompting new spending initiatives and modest short‑term increases in healthcare use and out‑of‑pocket costs for some patients.
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.
Expressing support for the designation of November 20, 2025, through December 20, 2025, as "National Survivors of Homicide Victims Awareness Month".
The resolution reframes gun violence as a public‑health and equity issue to expand trauma‑informed supports and community‑led prevention, while risking additional government costs, funding shifts, and political controversy over targeted efforts.
Commemorating the centennial year of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
The resolution raises awareness and affirms professional standards for speech‑language and hearing care, potentially encouraging screening and policy attention, but it is ceremonial and does not provide funding or legal rights, risking unmet expectations.
Expressing support for the recognition of October 2025 as "World Menopause Awareness Month," and expressing the sense of the Senate regarding global awareness and access to care during the menopausal transition and post-menopause.
The resolution raises national awareness about menopause and highlights research gaps and disparities—potentially improving care and workplace support—but it is symbolic only (no funding) and could spur policy or medical responses that increase costs for employers, taxpayers, or some women.
Supporting the goals and ideals of Red Ribbon Week during the period of October 23 through October 31, 2025.
The resolution raises public awareness and promotes safe disposal and local prevention efforts around the overdose/fentanyl crisis, but it is largely symbolic and risks emphasizing enforcement and stigma over expanding evidence‑based treatment and harm‑reduction services.
Designating the first full week in May as "Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week".
The bill improves detection, provider/patient awareness, and access to TD treatments—potentially improving outcomes for people on antipsychotics—but could raise short‑term costs and risk unintended stigma or therapy avoidance if not implemented carefully.
Supporting the designation of October 2025 as "Substance Use & Misuse Prevention Month" to raise awareness of substance use and misuse in the United States.
The resolution raises public awareness about the scale of substance use and recovery—supporting prevention and expanded treatment—but could prompt greater federal spending and risk increasing stigma for people who use drugs or are in recovery.