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Your MoneyWorkers & JobsTransparency & AccountabilityIf you live with a brain injury, state help would keep running through 2030 — with new public data.
Your Money
States get federal grants to run brain-injury services and legal help. The bill would allow up to $13.1 million a year for that work from 2026 through 2030.
The bill spells out what counts as a brain injury here. Harm from infection, poisoning, surgery, or blood vessel damage would count; birth injuries and long-term brain diseases would not.
States normally must put up their own money to win these grants. Health officials could waive up to half of the state share for one year at a time.
Workers & Jobs
The national brain-injury registry would note a person's job when it relates to how they got hurt. CDC would also point out jobs that carry higher risk.
Transparency & Accountability
CDC would have to put grouped brain-injury and concussion data on its website. Where it can, it would also show which groups face higher risk and how to cut that risk.
Health officials would look at what happens years after a brain injury. Findings would go to Congress within two years, and online if the agency runs the study itself.
A state or American Indian consortium would have to spend at least as much of its own money as the year before. The rule keeps federal grants from simply taking the place of state dollars.
The spending limits run only through fiscal year 2030. Lawmakers would have to pass a new bill to keep the programs going after that.
More about this bill
Most people would notice no change in daily life. If you or someone in your family lives with a brain injury, state help would keep going through 2030. That covers state services, plus legal advocacy for people with these injuries. Lawmakers would allow up to $13.1 million a year for those state programs. States would have to keep spending their own money on this work to get a grant. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would track brain injuries more closely. Its records would note a person's job when that matters to how they got hurt. The agency would also post data online about who gets hurt most, plus ways to lower the risk. Health officials would study long-term effects, such as links to dementia and mental health. A report to Congress would be due two years after the bill becomes law. It would look at groups hit hardest, such as domestic violence survivors and public safety officers. CDC work on brain injuries could get up to $9.25 million a year through 2030.
Congressional Summary
This bill reauthorizes from FY2026-FY2030 and expands Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs relating to traumatic brain injuries. It also requires HHS to conduct a study and report to Congress on traumatic brain injuries.Specifically, the bill reauthorizesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grants to states for traumatic brain injury surveillance and registries (renaming the program after the late Representative Bill Pascrell, Jr.), CDC research and public awareness activities to reduce traumatic brain injuries,Administration for Community Living (ACL) grants to states and American Indian consortiums for services and support for individuals living with traumatic brain injuries, andACL grants for protection and advocacy agencies supporting individuals with traumatic brain injuries.Also, the bill generally expands the scope and requirements of these programs, including by requiring the CDC to publish information on populations at higher risk for traumatic brain injuries and strategies for preventing such injuries in these populations. Additionally, HHS must conduct a study on long-term symptoms or conditions in people who experience traumatic brain injuries and report the findings to Congress. HHS must also submit a report to Congress on populations with a higher risk of traumatic brain injuries and outreach efforts for such populations.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 625.
- Action Date
- 2026-07-02
- Date Added
- 2026-07-18
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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