Early Detection of Vision Impairments for Children Act of 2025

This bill would help kids get vision problems found and treated early. It gives grants to States, territories, and Tribal organizations to build statewide programs that screen children in places like schools, clinics, and early learning settings, connect them to eye care, improve follow-up, and use proven, age‑appropriate standards. It also supports better data systems, public awareness that is accurate and culturally and linguistically appropriate, and efforts to reach rural and underserved kids and reduce disparities . Grantees must work with key partners like Medicaid, CHIP, maternal and child health programs, special education, and the Indian Health Service, and they must file annual reports that the public can see. The CDC can fund technical help to improve data, research, program quality, and share best practices. An evaluation report is due within four years of the law taking effect .

• Who is affected: Children and families; State health and education agencies; Indian Tribes, Tribal organizations, and Urban Indian organizations.
• What changes: Grants must support at least three activities, such as early vision screening and referrals, coordinated systems for diagnosis and follow-up, family outreach, better State data, and referrals to wrap‑around vision services to support independent living.
• Oversight and help: Annual public reports; Federal coordination across health and education agencies; CDC-backed technical assistance for data, research, and quality improvement.
• Funding: Authorizes $5 million per year for 2026–2030 for program activities, plus $5 million per year for required reporting during the same years.
• When: Evaluation to Congress due within four years of enactment; funding years are 2026–2030 .