Sponsor
James P. McGovern
Representative · D-MA
Representative · D-MA
Introduced November 12, 2025 by James P. McGovern · Last progress November 12, 2025
The bill funds and coordinates targeted supports—preventing short-term service gaps and boosting public-safety, veteran, small-business, childcare, and tribal initiatives—while increasing federal spending, administrative burdens, and enforcement powers that raise fiscal, procedural, and civil‑liberties trade‑offs.
Federal agencies and programs receive stopgap funding authority for FY2026, reducing the risk of immediate service interruptions for Americans who rely on federal services.
Law enforcement, border agencies, carriers, and package recipients get stronger coordination and enforcement tools to disrupt fentanyl trafficking and deter package theft, improving public safety and reducing losses to consumers and businesses.
Veterans with service-connected mental health conditions will be offered annual mental health consultations with explicit protections so participation won't trigger reevaluation of compensation, increasing access to care and protecting benefits.
Taxpayers face increased and uncertain federal costs from new authorizations, expanded credits, program administration, and unspecified FY2026 spending, raising deficits or forcing offsets unless fully funded—creating a broad fiscal risk.
Multiple provisions create additional administrative burdens for federal agencies, tribal governments, employers, and applicants (grant management, outreach, certifications, and report requirements), which could slow service delivery and require more staff or funding.
Expanding federal criminal jurisdiction for package-related theft and centralizing enforcement against fentanyl could increase federal prosecutions, exposing delivery handlers and bystanders to federal charges and shifting caseloads from state courts.
Based on analysis of 12 sections of legislative text.
Makes varied changes: expands SBA SBIR/STTR outreach, funds tribal/Hawaiian tourism grants, adds military spouses to a hiring tax credit, mandates veterans’ mental‑health consults, broadens package‑theft law, and creates interagency task forces.
Extends and expands several federal programs and creates new interagency bodies: increases SBA outreach and support for SBIR/STTR participation (including targeted outreach to minority and Hispanic‑serving institutions), authorizes grant funding for Native American and Native Hawaiian tourism programs, and adds qualified military spouses to the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. It requires the VA to offer annual mental‑health consultations to veterans with service‑connected mental health conditions, broadens the federal theft/embezzlement statute to cover packages delivered by private/commercial interstate carriers before receipt, and establishes two interagency bodies — a Working Families Task Force and a Fentanyl Disruption Steering Group — with reporting deadlines. The bill also directs committee oversight hearings, contains an appropriations clause with unspecified amounts for FY2026, and includes administrative changes to House rules and PAYGO treatment.