Congress extends breast health education program five more years

What it does

This bill keeps money flowing to the EARLY Act. The EARLY Act teaches young women about breast health. The bill moves the funding period from 2022–2026 to 2027–2031. This lets the program keep running and teaching for five more years.

Who it affects

Young women get breast health education from this program. Schools and health groups that run the program can keep working.

Where it stands

1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.

• Jul 17, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
• Jul 17, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions”
• Jun 17, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature…”
• Sep 28, 2026 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5120; text: CR S5120)”

Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.

Money around this bill

4 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 5 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.

Those reports show $2,980,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 34 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.

More groups named this bill than 72% of bills with any report.

Amy Klobuchar, who sponsored the bill, received $116,500 from PACs for the 2026 election.

• American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Inc — $2,380,000 in 1 report
• GE Healthcare Technologies Inc. — $350,000 in 1 report
• The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. Dba Susan G. Komen — $130,000 in 1 report
• Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc. — $120,000 in 2 reports

Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.

Words to know

• EARLY Act — A federal program that teaches young women about breast health.
• funding period — The years when Congress says a program can spend money.
• 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.