What a yes vote endorsed
Action for Dental Health Act
What this does
This bill reauthorizes an existing Public Health Service Act grant program that addresses dental workforce needs. It rewrites the program's funding line in Section 340G(f), replacing the prior authorization of $13,903,000 per year for fiscal years 2019 through 2023 with $15,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030. The new money is directed to remain available until expended. The bill makes no other change to the program.
Passed the House by voice vote
How we know · 5 sourced claims
- The bill reauthorizes an existing Public Health Service Act grant program that addresses dental workforce needs.Source: Enacting clause; Sec. 2
- It amends Section 340G(f) of the Public Health Service Act, striking $13,903,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023.Source: Sec. 2
- It inserts $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030.Source: Sec. 2
- The funds are to remain available until expended.Source: Sec. 2
- The bill has one operative section and makes no other change.Source: Sec. 1; Sec. 2
Reported lobbying
At least
2
organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing.
A floor, not a total. Those organizations were counted by the client name on 14 quarterly reports filed by 3 registered lobbying firms in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, so an organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. They carry no per-bill dollar figure and no position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
The organizations named
- AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION
- ACADEMY OF GENERAL DENTISTRY
Listed as filed. They are every client name on the filings counted here.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The pull came up 2 short in 2025 Q4 and 7 short in 2026 Q2 against the register's own count, so those quarters are the filings posted rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.