Government must pay interest on late payments to defense firms.
H.R. 9520 — War Hazards Compensation Reform Act · Filed by Michael Lawler (R-NY) · Introduced Jun 29, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill requires the government to pay interest on late payments. It covers claims under the War Hazards Compensation Act. This act pays workers hurt in overseas defense jobs. The bill lets insurers skip posting money as security. The Department of Labor must hire 15 examiners to work faster.
Who it affects
Insurers and defense firms will get interest if paid late. Workers hurt in overseas defense jobs may see faster claims. Taxpayers will pay the interest and bear more risk.
One thing to notice
The bill removes a rule that made insurers post money as security. This shifts risk from insurers to taxpayers.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jun 29, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 29, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Education and Workforce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce”
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 Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $30,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 5 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Michael Lawler, who sponsored the bill, received $2,042,071 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Workers Injury Law & Advocacy Group — $30,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- War Hazards Compensation Act — A federal program that pays workers hurt in overseas defense jobs.
- examiners — Government workers who review and approve worker pay claims.
- 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 (5,627 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; 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 21, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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