Senate Bills
September 2026 Senate Session
School Mental Health and Rural Connectivity Act
This bill would expand grants to help schools hire more mental health professionals, build tele-mental health partnerships, and improve broadband access for underserved students, especially in rural and small-state districts. It also requires basic reporting on service availability, student access, and program outcomes.
1 cosponsor
American Workforce and Border Integrity Act
This bill would require employers nationwide to use E-Verify for new hires, increase penalties for hiring unauthorized workers, and tie some federal grants to state and local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. It also boosts funding for ICE, border personnel support, and worksite enforcement while including due-process protections under existing law.
0 cosponsors
Telehealth Access and Prescription Savings Act
This bill would make telehealth coverage permanent in Medicare and other federally funded programs, expand digital care support for rural and community clinics, and require prescription price comparison tools to help patients find cheaper generic or therapeutic alternatives. It also pushes interstate telehealth cooperation, stronger privacy standards, and fewer administrative hurdles that increase healthcare costs.
5 cosponsors
Rural and Tribal Health Access Stabilization Act
This bill boosts and stabilizes Indian Health Service funding, expands telehealth and remote care tools for rural and tribal providers, and offers loan repayment and scholarships to attract healthcare workers to underserved areas. It also pushes HHS to coordinate better with Tribal governments and states to reduce gaps in care and improve long-term care access.
4 cosponsors
The Affordable Energy and Supply Chain Relief Act
This bill would create temporary targeted tax incentives for domestic energy production, grid reliability projects, and U.S.-based manufacturing to reduce fuel, electricity, transportation, and supply-chain costs. It also directs the Energy and Commerce Departments to speed reviews under existing law and report annually on jobs, consumer prices, and cost impacts.
8 cosponsors
Political Violence Prevention and Community Protection Act
This bill creates a DOJ grant program to help state, local, and tribal law enforcement prevent politically motivated threats and targeted violence through training, coordination, security planning, and digital evidence tools. It also requires civil-rights, privacy, reporting, and de-escalation safeguards, with annual reports to Congress on results and compliance.
2 cosponsors
Housing Affordability and Community Stability Act
This bill would try to lower housing costs by expanding affordable housing tax credits, rewarding states and cities that make it easier to build multifamily and mixed-income housing, and funding preservation of existing subsidized units. It also ties some federal money to tenant protections like just-cause eviction rules, notice of major rent hikes, and organizing rights, with extra focus on high-cost metro areas such as parts of Washington state.
3 cosponsors
The Working Families Cost Relief and Supply Chain Security Act
This bill tries to lower cost-of-living pressure by expanding tax incentives for domestic manufacturing, tightening Buy American and supply-chain rules in federal purchasing, and increasing federal scrutiny of unjustified price spikes in essential goods. It blends industrial policy with consumer protection, but leaves details of enforcement and actual price impacts uncertain.
2 cosponsors
Affordable Housing Supply and Tenant Protection Act
This bill uses HUD grants and tax incentives to expand affordable housing construction, rehab, and conversions, especially near jobs and transit in shortage areas. It also adds renter and homebuyer protections by requiring disclosure from large corporate landlords, banning deceptive rental ads and hidden fees, and directing FTC and CFPB enforcement.
4 cosponsors
Repeat Violent Offender and Fentanyl Trafficking Reduction Grant Act
This bill creates a DOJ competitive grant program to help states and local law enforcement better coordinate against repeat violent offenders and fentanyl trafficking. It ties funding to data-sharing, privacy protections, officer training, and annual public reporting on crime trends, case outcomes, spending, and results.
3 cosponsors