Railroad Retirement Board gets money to fix old computers.
S. 4965 — Railroad Retirement Board Stability Act · Filed by Bill Cassidy (R-LA) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 14, 2026 · Reported out
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What it does
The bill sets up a new money account for the Railroad Retirement Board. The board can move money from railroad retirement and jobless insurance funds into this account. The board must spend $10 to $20 million each year through 2032. This money pays to update its old computer systems. A government office must report on the upgrades.
Who it affects
Railroad workers and retirees get faster and more reliable benefit payments. The bill limits how much money can be moved out each year.
One thing to notice
The bill requires $10 to $20 million per year through 2032 for computer upgrades. It does not say what happens if upgrades are not done by then.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 1 Democrats, 1 Independents, 1 Republicans.
- Jul 14, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jul 14, 2026 — 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, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature…”
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 $80,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 3 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Bill Cassidy, who sponsored the bill, received $1,252,754 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Independent Sector — $80,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Railroad Retirement Board — The agency that pays benefits to railroad workers and retirees.
- benefit payments — Money paid to workers and retirees by the railroad retirement system.
- computer systems — The machines and programs the board uses to process benefits.
- 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 (8,832 characters) on Jul 19, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,778 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 2026-11-01.
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