Senate celebrates 75 years of school funding for military families
S.Res. 406 — A resolution designating September 30, 2025, as "Impact Aid Recognition Day" to recognize and celebrate the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Impact Aid program. · Filed by Mazie Hirono (D-HI) · 26 cosponsors · Introduced Sep 18, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This is a Senate resolution designating September 30, 2025, as 'Impact Aid Recognition Day' to mark the 75th anniversary of the Impact Aid program, which reimburses local school districts for lost tax revenue and costs caused by the presence of federal property (military bases, Indian lands, federal offices) within their boundaries. The resolution celebrates the program's history, notes it currently serves over 600,000 federally connected children across approximately 1,100 school districts, and reaffirms bipartisan congressional support for the program.
Why we flagged it
This is a simple Senate resolution with no legislative mechanism, appropriations, or regulatory effect. It designates a single day as a recognition day and affirms support for an existing federal education program. It is purely ceremonial and commemorative in nature.
Who it affects
This resolution has no direct fiscal or regulatory impact—it is purely commemorative. However, it affirms congressional support for a program that genuinely benefits ordinary citizens: families living on or near federal property whose local schools would otherwise lose critical funding. The resolution recognizes a legitimate federal obligation and celebrates a program that serves over 600,000 children.
Named in the bill
Impact Aid program, Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, U.S. Department of Education, Senate Impact Aid Coalition, House Impact Aid Coalition, Congressional Impact Aid Caucus, local educational agencies
Where it stands
26 cosponsors: 18 Democrats, 8 Republicans.
- Sep 18, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Sep 18, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S6737)”
- Oct 6, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent”
- Oct 6, 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 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. Those filings disclosed $10,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 7 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Mazie Hirono, the sponsor, reported $44,000 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- National Association of Federally Impacted Schools — $10,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jan 13, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jul 6, 2026; 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.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. 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 Jan 13, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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