H.R. 6238 · 119th Congress · Health
NIH IMPROVE Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Jul 20, 2026
Passed by voice vote.
Passed the House on July 20, 2026.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
- IntroducedNov 20, 2025
- CommitteeJul 9, 2026
- Passed HouseJul 20, 2026
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 4
- 3 Democrats, 1 Republican
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsHouse Committee on Energy and Commerce
- Lobbying
- At least 7
- organizations named it2025 Q4 to 2026 Q3
What it does
This bill writes the NIH IMPROVE Initiative into federal law by adding a new section 409K to the Public Health Service Act.
This bill writes the NIH IMPROVE Initiative into federal law by adding a new section 409K to the Public Health Service Act. It directs the Director of the National Institutes of Health to continue running a maternal health research program aimed at reducing preventable maternal deaths and severe complications, closing gaps in outcomes for populations with disproportionately high rates, and improving care before, during, and after pregnancy. To run it, the Director may award grants or enter into contracts, cooperative agreements, or other transactions. The bill authorizes $63,400,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 7 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 13 quarterly reports filed by 1 lobbying firm and by 6 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: March of Dimes; Nemours Foundation - A Florida Not-for-Profit Corporation; Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc.; American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; The Nemours Foundation. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 2 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
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, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.