At the end of July, the Senate Committee on Appropriations approved its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) funding bill. Funding amounts are still subject to change as negotiations continue.
Proposed funding levels in the Labor-HHS bill include:
Health Resources & Services Administration
- Maternal Mental Health Hotline: $8 million
- Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children: $20.833 million
- Healthy Start: $145.25 million
- Title V Maternal and Child Block Grant: $799.7 million
- Special Projects of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS): $14 million
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Division of Reproductive Health, Safe Motherhood/Infant Health: $113.5 million
- Surveillance for Emerging Threats to Mothers and Babies (SET-NET): $23 million
- Division of Oral Health: $5.25 million
The bill rejects the Administration’s proposal to eliminate, restructure, or consolidate CDC’s core programs by maintaining funding for FY26. These core programs include chronic disease prevention, tobacco control, injury, global health, and immunization.
Payment Management System (PMS)
In response to reported delays and issues with funds being paid out through the Payment Management System, Labor-HHS included language to improve grantees’ ability to access funds. The bill requires HHS to brief Congress within 30 days on the PMS’s status and any changes HHS has made to improve timely access to funds. The bill also requires HHS to promptly report outages longer than 48 hours or payment delays longer than 14 days.
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