Bill funds programs to fight poverty sicknesses affecting 12 million Americans.
S. 5564 — STOP Neglected Diseases of Poverty Act · Filed by Cory Booker (D-NJ) · Introduced Sep 24, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill lets the federal government set up a task force. It will study and treat sicknesses tied to poverty. The bill funds health centers to find and treat people. It pays for research into new drugs and tests. It sets up centers to train doctors.
Who it affects
Poor Americans who have these sicknesses or might get them get screening and treatment. Public health offices and health centers get money to do this work.
One thing to notice
The bill says these sicknesses hit about 12 million Americans. A new tracking system could show the real number is higher.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Sep 24, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Sep 24, 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”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- sicknesses tied to poverty — Parasitic and bacterial sicknesses like Chagas disease, dengue fever, and toxocariasis that spread in poor areas.
- task force — A group from different federal offices that work together on one problem.
- tracking system — A system to count cases of sickness in a population.
- health centers — Clinics that get federal money to serve poor and uninsured people.
- centers — Top research and training places that focus on one medical field.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (18,258 characters) on Oct 16, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 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.
As of — page rendered 2026-10-20.
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