Bill expands heart health screenings for low-income women
H.R. 7417 — Women’s Heart Health Expansion Act of 2026 · Filed by Joyce Beatty (D-OH) · 29 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 9, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill gives more money to a program that helps low-income women. The program provides free health screenings and referrals. It adds screenings for blood pressure and cholesterol, plus health education. The bill sets aside $250 million for these services. The money runs from 2027 to 2031.
Who it affects
Low-income women get access to free heart health screenings. State and local health agencies receive grants to run the program. Community health centers help provide the screenings.
One thing to notice
The bill does not set exact income limits in the law. The CDC Director will decide who counts as low-income.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
29 cosponsors: 24 Democrats, 5 Republicans.
- Feb 9, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 9, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
3 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 3 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $490,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 6 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 61% of bills with any report.
Joyce Beatty, who sponsored the bill, received $946,489 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Heart Association — $400,000 in 1 report
- The Mended Hearts, Inc. — $60,000 in 1 report
- Association of Black Cardiologists — $30,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- CDC — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a U.S. health agency
- grants — Money given by the government to pay for a program
- referrals — Directions to see a doctor or get more health care
- blood pressure — The force of blood pushing against the walls of blood vessels
- cholesterol — A waxy substance in the blood that can harm the heart
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,810 characters) on Jul 2, 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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