9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced
Summary
Would change the World Trade Center Health Program's long-term funding formula and expand who can certify mental health conditions. It would tie future federal funding more closely to enrollment, raise research and data spending limits, and require long-range budget projections to Congress.
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- Responders and survivors: Licensed mental health providers could perform initial evaluations and determinations for mental health conditions, and the time to add responder conditions is extended from 90 to 180 days. Deceased responders and survivors are excluded from enrollment counts.
- Providers and program network: The WTC Program Administrator would set categories of "qualified mental health providers" and must issue regulations about which licensed mental health professionals may evaluate enrollees, with credentialing rules for the nationwide network restructured.
- Funding and oversight: For FY2026–FY2090 the bill would use a new formula that links annual funding to enrollment changes and sets a 25% floor for 2026. It increases allowable spending on medical research and data collection, makes unspent balances revert to the Treasury, and directs a report with per-year budget projections through FY2090.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.
Long-term funding and rules
If enacted, the bill would set a new multi-decade funding rule for the WTC Health Program for FY2026–FY2090. Each year would start with last year’s amount, increase it by 7%, then scale by the year-over-year July 1 enrollment ratio. For FY2026 the program would get the higher of the pre-enactment FY2026 amount or last year’s spending plus 25%. The bill would also exclude people known to be deceased from enrollee counts. Any money left in the Supplemental, Special, and Pentagon/Shanksville Funds would revert to the U.S. Treasury under 31 U.S.C. 1552.
Mental-health access and network rules
If enacted, the WTC Program would allow certain licensed mental-health providers, not just physicians, to do initial mental-health evaluations and determinations. The Program Administrator must issue rules naming which provider types may do this within 180 days of enactment. Two 90-day deadlines for adding responder health conditions would become 180 days. The bill would also change some credentialing text and replace the term 'Data Centers' with 'WTC Program Administrator' in the nationwide network rules.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
NY • D
Cosponsors
Charles Schumer
NY • D
Sponsored 2/26/2025
Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
CT • D
Sponsored 3/25/2025
Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
VA • D
Sponsored 3/25/2025
Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
NJ • D
Sponsored 4/7/2025
Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
WI • D
Sponsored 5/12/2025
Sen. Kim, Andy [D-NJ]
NJ • D
Sponsored 5/12/2025
Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
VA • D
Sponsored 6/3/2025
Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
CT • D
Sponsored 7/15/2025
Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
MA • D
Sponsored 9/10/2025
Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
MD • D
Sponsored 9/10/2025
Sen. Alsobrooks, Angela D. [D-MD]
MD • D
Sponsored 9/10/2025
Angus King
ME • I
Sponsored 9/10/2025
Roll Call Votes
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