Bill restores help for legal immigrants
H.R. 9432 — LIFT the BAR Act · Filed by Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) · 102 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill cancels rules that cut off food stamps and Medicaid. It stops the ban on child health insurance, housing help, and tax credits. It expands who counts as legal. It includes DACA people, those waiting for visas, special immigrant kids, and people from freely linked states. The government must write new rules within 180 days.
Who it affects
Legal immigrants get back food, health care, housing, and tax credits. States and government offices must set up new systems. Families with mixed immigration status may get better health care and food help.
One thing to notice
The bill cancels a 2024 law that cut these programs. Government offices have six months to write rules. This may slow down who gets help.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
102 cosponsors: 102 Democrats.
- Jun 24, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 24, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Financial Services and House Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Education and…”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
6 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 6 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $1,109,072 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 12 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 82% of bills with any report.
Pramila Jayapal, who sponsored the bill, received $281,250 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc — $652,972 in 1 report
- American Federation of Teachers — $410,000 in 1 report
- National Immigration Law Center (nilc) — $30,000 in 1 report
- Casa, Inc. — $10,000 in 1 report
- Center for Law and Social Policy (clasp) — $6,100 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- legal immigrants — People who have permission to live in the United States.
- DACA — A program that lets some people brought to the U.S. as kids stay and work.
- Medicaid — A government health plan for people with low income.
- food stamps — Money the government gives to buy food for low-income families.
- tax credits — Money the government gives to help people pay for health insurance.
- 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 full bill text on Jul 5, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 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 2026-09-23.
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