Congress funds brain hurt research and tracking programs
H.R. 1493 — To reauthorize and make improvements to Federal programs relating to the prevention, detection, and treatment of traumatic brain injuries, and for other purposes. · Filed by Frank Pallone (D-NJ) · 6 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 21, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill restarts and expands programs that prevent brain hurt. It helps find and treat brain hurt. It renames a CDC program after Bill Pascrell Jr. and gives more money to the CDC and states. The bill collects data on brain hurt in people who face violence or assault. It also collects data on police and public safety workers. It requires the government to share brain hurt data with the public. It orders a two-year study on long-term brain hurt effects.
Who it affects
The bill helps states, tribes, and research groups that work on brain hurt. It affects people who have had brain hurt. It affects people who faced violence or assault and police workers.
One thing to notice
The bill collects data on brain hurt in groups that were not tracked before. These groups include people who faced violence or assault.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
6 cosponsors: 3 Democrats, 3 Republicans.
- Feb 21, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 21, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
- May 21, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- May 21, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 43 - 0”
- Jul 20, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4646-4647)”
- Jul 20, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Guthrie moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Mar 2025 to Mar 2025.
Those reports show $286,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 30 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Frank Pallone, who sponsored the bill, received $1,584,249 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Service Employees International Union Ctw-clc — $286,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- brain hurt — A serious head hurt from a blow or jolt to the head.
- restarts — To approve a program again so it can keep running and get money.
- data — Facts and numbers collected and kept for study.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (8,680 characters) on Jul 9, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,522 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Mar 2025 to Mar 2025. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 9, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-21.
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