Congress extends tick-disease research funding through 2030
S. 2398 — Kay Hagan Tick Reauthorization Act · Filed by Susan Collins (R-ME) · 23 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Passed both chambers
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What it does
This bill keeps two federal programs running through 2030. These programs fund research and public-health work on tick-borne diseases. The programs were set to end after 2025. The bill also fixes how the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group is named in law.
Who it affects
Public health departments and research centers benefit from continued funding. The CDC and NIH receive money to keep working. People with Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever benefit from the research.
One thing to notice
The bill extends funding for five more years. Without this bill, the programs would have stopped after 2025.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
23 cosponsors: 15 Democrats, 7 Republicans, 1 Independents.
- Jul 23, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jul 23, 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”
- Jul 30, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature…”
- Aug 6, 2026 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S4494-4495; text: CR S4494-4495)”
- Sep 15, 2026 — Passed both chambers · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote”
- Sep 15, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Guthrie moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
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 14 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Susan Collins, who sponsored the bill, received $2,343,513 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Entomological Society of America — $30,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- tick-borne diseases — illnesses spread to people by tick bites, like Lyme disease
- public-health work — efforts to keep communities healthy and prevent disease
- Tick-Borne Disease Working Group — a government team that studies and fights tick-spread illnesses
- 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 (949 characters) on Jul 10, 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 15, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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