Congress extends tick illness research funding for five more years.
H.R. 4348 — To reauthorize the Kay Hagan Tick Act, and for other purposes. · Filed by Chris Smith (R-NJ) · 36 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 10, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill keeps money and programs for tick illness research going from 2026 to 2030. It updates which officials run the national strategy. It expands regional centers to help find, report, stop, and respond to tick illness.
Who it affects
State and local health groups get continued support. Schools and research centers that study tick illness gain funding. People benefit from ongoing work to stop and respond to illnesses like Lyme illness.
One thing to notice
The bill updates the official name for the tick illness working group. It does not change what the group does.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
36 cosponsors: 28 Democrats, 8 Republicans.
- Jul 10, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 10, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
- May 13, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- May 21, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 48 - 0”
- Jul 20, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4640)”
- Jul 20, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Guthrie moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 2 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $90,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 10 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Chris Smith, who sponsored the bill, received $224,256 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- University of Wisconsin-madison — $60,000 in 1 report
- Entomological Society of America — $30,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- regional centers — Local hubs that help find, stop, and respond to illness in their areas.
- 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 (1,038 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 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 Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. 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 15, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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