Senate marks 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 statement names September 30, 2025, as Impact Aid Recognition Day. It celebrates the 75th year of the Impact Aid program. The program pays schools when government land in their area cuts tax money. It serves over 600,000 kids in about 1,100 school districts.
Who it affects
Families living on or near government land benefit from this program. Their schools get money to make up for lost tax money.
One thing to notice
This honors a program that already exists. It does not change how the program works.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
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 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Dec 2025 to Dec 2025.
Those reports show $10,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 7 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Mazie Hirono, who sponsored the bill, received $43,000 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- National Association of Federally Impacted Schools — $10,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Impact Aid program — A program that pays schools money when government land cuts their tax money.
- government land — Land or buildings owned by the U.S. government, such as bases or offices.
- tax money — Money that schools collect from property taxes in their area.
- statement — Words passed by Congress that honor something but do not create new laws.
- 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.
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 14,707 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 2026-09-23.
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