H.R. 5304 · 119th Congress

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026

Introduced on Sep 11, 2025 by Robert B. Aderholt (R-AL-4). Latest action (Sep 11, 2025): Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 227.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
Sep 11, 2025
Cosponsors
0
Policy area
Economics and Public Finance
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.

Subjects

  • Abortion
  • Administrative remedies
  • Adoption and foster care
  • Adult education and literacy
  • Aging
  • Appropriations
  • Asia
  • Athletes
  • Birth defects
  • Blood and blood diseases
  • Cancer
  • Cardiovascular and respiratory health
  • Caribbean area
  • Census and government statistics
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Chemical and biological weapons
  • Child care and development
  • Child health
  • Child safety and welfare
  • China
  • Civil actions and liability
  • Coal
  • Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
  • Commuting
  • Computers and information technology
  • Congressional oversight
  • Corporation for National and Community Service
  • Cuba
  • Cultural exchanges and relations
  • Data collection, sharing, protection
  • Department of Education
  • Department of Health and Human Services
  • Department of Labor
  • Detention of persons
  • Digestive and metabolic diseases
  • Disability and health-based discrimination
  • Disability and paralysis
  • Disability assistance
  • Domestic violence and child abuse
  • Drug trafficking and controlled substances
  • Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
  • Education of the disadvantaged
  • Education programs funding
  • Educational facilities and institutions
  • Elementary and secondary education
  • Emergency planning and evacuation
  • Employee benefits and pensions
  • Employee hiring
  • Employment and training programs
  • Employment discrimination and employee rights
  • Energy assistance for the poor and aged
  • Environmental health
  • Europe
  • Evidence and witnesses
  • Executive agency funding and structure
  • Family services
  • Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
  • Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
  • Firearms and explosives
  • Foreign labor
  • Fraud offenses and financial crimes
  • Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
  • Government information and archives
  • Government lending and loan guarantees
  • Government trust funds
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Health care costs and insurance
  • Health care coverage and access
  • Health facilities and institutions
  • Health personnel
  • Health programs administration and funding
  • Health promotion and preventive care
  • Health technology, devices, supplies
  • Hereditary and development disorders
  • Higher education
  • Housing and community development funding
  • Human trafficking
  • Immunology and vaccination
  • Indian social and development programs
  • Infectious and parasitic diseases
  • Intergovernmental relations
  • International exchange and broadcasting
  • Internet, web applications, social media
  • Iran
  • Labor market
  • Labor standards
  • Labor-management relations
  • Latin America
  • Law enforcement administration and funding
  • Law enforcement officers
  • Libraries and archives
  • Maine
  • Medicaid
  • Medical education
  • Medical research
  • Medicare
  • Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
  • Mental health
  • Middle East
  • Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
  • Mining
  • Minority education
  • Minority health
  • Mississippi
  • Motor vehicles
  • Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
  • Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
  • National Council on Disability
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
  • National Mediation Board
  • National and community service
  • Neurological disorders
  • New Hampshire
  • New York State
  • North Korea
  • Nuclear weapons
  • Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
  • Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
  • Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
  • Pornography
  • Poverty and welfare assistance
  • Preschool education
  • Protection of officials
  • Public contracts and procurement
  • Racial and ethnic relations
  • Railroad Retirement Board
  • Railroads
  • Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
  • Religion
  • Research administration and funding
  • Research and development
  • Rural conditions and development
  • Russia
  • School administration
  • School athletics
  • Seafood
  • Sex and reproductive health
  • Sex offenses
  • Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
  • Sexually transmitted diseases
  • Smuggling and trafficking
  • Social Security Administration
  • Social security and elderly assistance
  • Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
  • Special education
  • State and local government operations
  • Strategic materials and reserves
  • Student aid and college costs
  • Trade adjustment assistance
  • Unemployment
  • Venezuela
  • Vermont
  • Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
  • Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
  • Vocational and technical education
  • Wages and earnings
  • Women's health
  • Worker safety and health
  • World health
  • Youth employment and child labor

Summary

By the Congressional Research Service (Reported to House, Sep 11, 2025). Public domain.

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026

This bill provides FY2026 appropriations to the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education; and related agencies.

The bill provides appropriations to the Department of Labor for

  • the Employment and Training Administration,
  • Veterans' Employment and Training,
  • the Employee Benefits Security Administration,
  • the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation,
  • the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs,
  • the Wage and Hour Division,
  • the Office of Labor-Management Standards,
  • the Occupational Safety and Health Administration,
  • the Mine Safety and Health Administration,
  • the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
  • the Office of Disability Employment Policy, and
  • Departmental Management.

The bill provides appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services for

  • the Health Resources and Services Administration,
  • the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
  • the National Institutes of Health,
  • the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,
  • the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,
  • the Administration for Children and Families,
  • the Administration for Community Living,
  • the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, and
  • the Office of the Secretary.

The bill provides appropriations to the Department of Education for

  • Education for the Disadvantaged;
  • Impact Aid;
  • School Improvement Programs;
  • Safe Schools and Citizenship Education;
  • Indian Education;
  • Innovation and Improvement;
  • Special Education;
  • Rehabilitation Services;
  • Special Institutions for Persons with Disabilities;
  • Career, Technical, and Adult Education;
  • Higher Education;
  • Howard University;
  • the College Housing and Academic Facilities Loans Program;
  • the Historically Black College and University Capital Financing Program Account;
  • Student Financial Assistance;
  • Student Aid Administration;
  • the Institute of Education Sciences; and
  • Departmental Management.

The bill also provides appropriations to several related agencies, including

  • the America First Corps,
  • the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled,
  • the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service,
  • the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission,
  • the Institute of Museum and Library Services,
  • the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission,
  • the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission,
  • the National Council on Disability,
  • the National Labor Relations Board,
  • the National Mediation Board,
  • the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission,
  • the Railroad Retirement Board, and
  • the Social Security Administration.

The bill also sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this and other appropriations acts.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Robert B. AderholtR-AL-4Sponsor

No cosponsors.

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

Every action as published, oldest first. Roll calls link to how each member voted.

  1. Sep 11, 2025The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 119-271, by Mr. Aderholt.
  2. Sep 11, 2025 · HouseThe House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 119-271, by Mr. Aderholt.
  3. Sep 11, 2025 · HousePlaced on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 227.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS7 reports
    $1.7M reported (all issues)
  2. AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION7 reports
    $810K reported (all issues)
  3. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF NURSING6 reports
    $240K reported (all issues)
  4. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSE ANESTHETISTS6 reports
    $965K reported (all issues)
  5. American Library Association6 reports
    $276.9K reported (all issues)
  6. CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY OF NEW YORK, INC.6 reports
    $450K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY OF NEW YORK, INC.$13M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  7. Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids6 reports
    $90K reported (all issues)
  8. Entergy Services, LLC6 reports
    $2M reported (all issues)
  9. PEARSON EDUCATION6 reports
    $230K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC$519.9K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  10. EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE5 reports
    $6.8M reported (all issues)
  11. Hospital Authority of Irwin County5 reports
    $15K reported (all issues)
  12. MOLSON COORS BEVERAGE COMPANY USA LLC5 reports
  13. TOBACCO-FREE KIDS ACTION FUND5 reports
    $1.9M reported (all issues)
  14. University of North Dakota5 reports
    $130K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTAAI match · 100%
  15. AMERICAN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION4 reports
    $600K reported (all issues)
  16. AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION4 reports
    $430K reported (all issues)
  17. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PEDIATRIC NEPHROLOGY4 reports
    $80K reported (all issues)
  18. APTS Action, Inc.4 reports
  19. ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRUSTEES4 reports
    $60K reported (all issues)
  20. Alliance for Excellent Education4 reports
    $51.3K reported (all issues)
  21. Association of American Medical Colleges4 reports
    $2.9M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGESAI match · 100%
  22. BOSTON UNIVERSITY4 reports
    $100K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: BOSTON UNIVERSITY, TRUSTEES OFAI match · 100%
  23. Baylor College of Medicine4 reports
    $400K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$8.9M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  24. Baylor University4 reports
    $180K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY$1.3M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  25. CMS ENERGY CORPORATION4 reports
    $890K reported (all issues)
  26. City of Jacksonville, FL4 reports
    $120K reported (all issues)
  27. Duquesne University of The Holy Spirit4 reports
    $120K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT$163.7K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  28. GE HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES INC.4 reports
    $1.8M reported (all issues)
  29. GSK (fka GLAXOSMITHKLINE INC.)4 reports
    $5M reported (all issues)
  30. HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN4 reports
    $769.8K reported (all issues)
  31. ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BOARDS4 reports
    $170K reported (all issues)
  32. Knowledge Alliance4 reports
    $40K reported (all issues)
  33. LOCUS BIOSCIENCES, INC.4 reports
    $320K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: LOCUS BIOSCIENCES INC$4.6M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  34. NATIONAL COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION4 reports
    $1.2M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: NATIONAL COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100%
  35. NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA4 reports
    $1.9M reported (all issues)
  36. National Association of College Stores4 reports
    $10K reported (all issues)
  37. PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA4 reports
    $394.7K reported (all issues)
  38. PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH & MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA4 reports
    $37M reported (all issues)
  39. THE ALS ASSOCIATION4 reports
    $120K reported (all issues)
  40. THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL4 reports
    $170.8K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 5, 2026 · loaded Oct 5, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.