What a yes vote endorsed
NIH IMPROVE Act
What this does
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.
Passed the House by voice vote
How we know · 5 sourced claims
- The bill establishes the IMPROVE Initiative by adding a new section 409K to the Public Health Service Act.Source: Sec. 2
- It directs the Director of NIH to continue carrying out a program to improve maternal health outcomes.Source: Sec. 2, 409K(a)
- The program's objectives include reducing preventable maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity, reducing related health disparities, and improving health for pregnant and postpartum women before, during, and after pregnancy.Source: Sec. 2, 409K(b)
- The Director may award grants or enter into contracts, cooperative agreements, or other transactions to carry out the program.Source: Sec. 2, 409K(c)
- The bill authorizes $63,400,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030.Source: Sec. 2, 409K(d)
Reported lobbying
At least
3
organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing.
A floor, not a total. Those organizations were counted by the client name on 6 quarterly reports filed by 3 registered lobbying firms in 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
- MARCH OF DIMES
- NEMOURS FOUNDATION - A FLORIDA NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION
- HADASSAH, THE WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA, INC.
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.