Congress mandates rigorous tracking of federal health training grants
H.R. 5376 — Impacts and Outcomes for Health Career Training Act · Filed by Brad Schneider (D-IL) · Introduced Sep 16, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill amends the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study the effects of health profession opportunity grant demonstration projects on participants' employment and earnings over the short, medium, and long term. It mandates that at least 4 percent of annual funding for these grants be dedicated to rigorous evaluation and study, ensuring taxpayer money spent on these training programs is tracked and measured for effectiveness.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is to require rigorous, evidence-based evaluation of existing federal health profession training grants. It is a transparency and accountability measure, not a funding increase or policy change to the underlying program.
What the text implies
- The 4% evaluation floor may reduce direct grant funding available to training programs in the short term, though the intent is to improve long-term program quality and reduce waste.
- Mandatory study of 'short-, medium-, and long-term' outcomes creates ongoing data collection obligations that may require new HHS infrastructure or contractor support.
- The bill does not specify what happens if evaluation shows programs are ineffective—it mandates study but not corrective action, leaving implementation discretion to the Secretary.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Citizens benefit from mandatory evaluation and transparency: the bill ensures federal spending on health profession training is measured for actual employment and earnings outcomes rather than assumed effective. Dedicating 4% to rigorous study is a modest cost that protects the public interest by preventing waste on ineffective programs.
Who stands to gain
- health profession training programs (indirect benefit via improved program design based on evaluatio
- evaluation contractors or research institutions (direct benefit from 4% funding allocation)
Named in the bill
Secretary of Health and Human Services, Social Security Act Section 2008, Health Profession Opportunity Grant Demonstration Projects
Where it stands
- Sep 16, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Sep 16, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
47 lobbying clients named this bill on 72 disclosure filings across 3 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $28,620,206 in lobbying spend. A filing names 3 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 99% of bills with at least one filing.
Brad Schneider, the sponsor, reported $1,408,249 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle. $36,000 of that came from 5 PACs tied to these lobbying clients.
- Business Roundtable Inc — $6,950,000 on 1 filing
- Eli Lilly and Company — $5,458,850 on 2 filings
- Abbvie Inc. — $2,490,000 on 2 filings
- Exxon Mobil Corp — $1,850,000 on 1 filing
- Sempra — $1,600,000 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 22, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,271 characters) on Jul 6, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 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 Dec 2025 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 22, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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