Senate names May 29 as Mental Health Awareness in Agriculture Day
S.Res. 143 — A resolution supporting the designation of May 29, 2025, as "Mental Health Awareness in Agriculture Day" to raise awareness around mental health in the agricultural industry and workforce and to continue to reduce stigma associated with mental illness. · Filed by Deb Fischer (R-NE) · 15 cosponsors · Introduced Mar 26, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The Senate set aside May 29, 2025, as a special day. It focuses on mental health in farming and farm work. Farmers have suicide rates 3.5 times higher than other people. Farm workers have rates 1.4 times higher. The resolution points to the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network.
Who it affects
Farmers and farm workers are the main group this resolution talks about. The resolution itself does not create new laws or spend money.
One thing to notice
The resolution points to an existing help network but does not fund it or expand it.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
15 cosponsors: 8 Republicans, 7 Democrats.
- Mar 26, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Mar 26, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S1877-1878)”
- May 19, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent”
- May 19, 2025 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous…”
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 3 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $720,409 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 37 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Deb Fischer, who sponsored the bill, received $348,255 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Farm Bureau Fed — $720,409 in 3 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- resolution — A formal statement by Congress or the Senate about something important, but not a law.
- Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network — An existing government program that helps farmers and ranch workers with stress and mental health.
- 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 (3,076 characters) on Sep 18, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,342 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 Dec 2025 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 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-18.
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