# 119-hr-9260: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2027 119-hr-9260, Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2027, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Aderholt, Robert B. [R-AL-4] (R-AL); status in_committee; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-24). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9260 - As of: 2026-09-24 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: 119-hr-9260 - Congress: 119 - Title: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2027 - Status: in_committee - Introduced: 2026-06-11 - Sponsor: Rep. Aderholt, Robert B. [R-AL-4] (R-AL) - Cosponsors: 0 - Policy area: Economics and Public Finance - Touches household money: yes - Last recorded action: 2026-09-24 ## Summary **Appropriates funding across Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education while attaching a wide set of policy riders that limit certain research, public health actions, and diversity initiatives.** This bill sets specific dollar targets for workforce, health, and education programs and ties many program rules to new reporting and eligibility restrictions. - Families and students see big education and child supports. Head Start is funded at about $12.4 billion and the Child Care and Development Block Grant at about $8.8 billion. The bill also sets the Pell maximum at $6,385 and changes Federal student loan eligibility rules for some undergraduates beginning July 1, 2027. - Workers get workforce and training investments plus program rules. Employment and Training Administration programs receive roughly $2.6 billion and $290 million is targeted to expand registered apprenticeships. The law also funds Job Corps and unemployment program operations and includes changes to H-2B/H-2A wage and visa rules and a temporary FLSA carve-out for disaster adjusters. - Health care and research programs are heavily funded but regulated. Medicaid receives about $468.7 billion in appropriations while NIH and ARPA-H get large research accounts and new limits on fetal tissue research, foreign collaborations with certain countries, and a ban on finalizing OSHA’s heat standard. ## Provisions PRIA read - Caps PBGC admin funds for FY2027: benefit, high. If enacted, this bill would limit PBGC administrative obligations for FY2027 to $484,264,000. If plan terminations create more than 100,000 new participants, an extra $9.2 million would be available for each additional 20,000 terminated participants through Sept. 30, 2031. PBGC may also get extra m… - Keeps traditional Medicare paperwork: benefit, high. If enacted, this bill would stop the government from using these funds to implement the WISeR prior-authorization model in traditional Medicare. That means CMS would be barred from spending money to require prior authorizations for select services in fee-for-service Medicare. This would take effect… - Employment training administration funds: benefit, high. If enacted, the bill would appropriate $109,527,000 to run federal employment and training administration in fiscal year 2027. Up to $43,906,000 more could come from the Employment Security Administration Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund. These funds would support administration of job and tr… - Job Corps funding and property: benefit, high. If enacted, the bill would provide $880,078,000 for Job Corps. About $801,663,000 would fund operations for July 1, 2027 through June 30, 2028, $61,500,000 would go to construction through June 30, 2030, and $16,915,000 would cover necessary expenses. The Secretary could transfer up to 15 percent o… - Trade Adjustment Act benefits funding: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would provide $28.8 million for Trade Adjustment Act payments and allowances, training, employment and case management services, job search and relocation allowances, and related State administrative expenses in FY2027. Parts of the appropriation may be charged to later fiscal… - Unemployment admin and reemployment funding: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would provide $64,306,000 plus up to $4,055,584,000 from the Unemployment Trust Fund for UI administration in FY2027. Of the Trust Fund amounts, $3,276,635,000 is for State UI administration and at least $517,000,000 is to carry out reemployment services and eligibility assessm… - Veterans job help and homeless assistance: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would allow up to $269,841,000 from the Employment Security Administration account and $65,500,000 from the General Fund to support veterans' employment programs and homeless‑veteran assistance. The package includes $185,000,000 for Jobs for Veterans State Grants and award auth… - YouthBuild funding for young workers: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would provide $107.5 million for YouthBuild activities under WIOA, with funds available April 1, 2027 through June 30, 2028. The funding would support YouthBuild program operators and participants, who are often young people working toward training and employment. - More EBSA enforcement funds: benefit, medium. If enacted, this bill would provide $181.1 million for the Employee Benefits Security Administration for FY2027. Up to $3 million of that could be used through September 30, 2028 to hire expert witnesses for enforcement litigation. This would support EBSA's work enforcing employee benefit plan rule… - Advances to unemployment and Black Lung funds: benefit, medium. If enacted, this bill would authorize repayable advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund and nonrepayable advances to certain revolving funds and accounts. Such sums as may be necessary would be available for obligation through September 30, 2028. The change… - New private lawsuits over PHS funding: benefit, medium. If enacted, this bill would add a private civil right to sue over certain violations of Public Health Service funding rules. The U.S. Attorney General, any State attorney general, or any person harmed could seek money damages, injunctions, and attorneys' fees without using administrative steps firs… - Protect marriage belief from penalties: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would bar use of funds in this or any Act to take discriminatory action against someone for sincerely held beliefs that marriage is between one man and one woman. Agencies could not change tax treatment, deny deductions, withhold grants or benefits, or deny access to federal pr… - Sponsor limits for unaccompanied children: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would bar placing an unaccompanied alien child with a sponsor who is not lawfully admitted or who is deportable. It would also bar placement with a sponsor convicted of, or with a pending charge for, certain gang‑related crimes. The restriction would apply to funds in this Act. - Bars federal funding for sex-change interventions: cost, high. If enacted, this bill would bar use of funds in this Act for social, psychological, behavioral, or medical interventions intended to change an individual's biological sex. The prohibition would apply when the funds come from this Act and would take effect upon enactment. This would reduce federal s… - Changes to student loans and borrower rules: cost, high. If enacted, the bill would end authority to make subsidized Federal Direct Stafford loans for undergraduate periods of instruction beginning on or after July 1, 2027. Undergraduates would instead have higher unsubsidized limits equal to prior subsidized amounts added to the unsubsidized cap, and a… - Large rescissions of education and funds: cost, high. If enacted, this bill would rescind or cancel large unobligated balances across several accounts. It would rescind $712 million of WIOA funds, $250 million from the Department of Education Nonrecurring Expenses Fund (except emergency‑designated amounts), $213 million in unused immigration-related f… - Social Security child funds and claims limits: cost, high. If enacted, this bill would make $12.33 billion in the Child Enrollment Contingency Fund and its investment income unavailable for obligation in FY2027. It would also bar Social Security from processing certain claims for quarters of coverage when the work was done under another Social Security num… - Cuts to exchange, ARP, and PCORI funds: cost, high. If enacted, this bill would rescind $1.9 billion in fee collections from qualified health plans that sell on ACA Exchanges for FY2027. It would also rescind $162 million in unused ARP balances and cancel FY2027 funding for the PCORI trust fund. The HHS Secretary must report ARP rescissions to the A… - Higher education funding conditions: cost, high. If enacted, the bill would condition eligibility for funds on college and university policies and actions. Schools would need to adopt prohibitions on antisemitic conduct that creates a hostile environment to receive Act funds. Institutions that recognize or support student groups that back designa… - Title X provider funding limits: cost, medium. If enacted, the bill would bar Title X funds to certain large providers that performed abortions (except in rape, incest, or life‑endangering cases) and that received more than $23 million in Title X grants in FY2016. An entity can avoid the ban by certifying it will not perform or fund those abort… - No new H-2A wage rulings: cost, medium. If enacted, the bill would bar using funds made available by this Act to issue new H‑2A prevailing wage determinations under 20 C.F.R. 655.120. That would prevent agencies from issuing new wage rulings under that regulation while the restriction applies. - Schools lose funds over sports policy: cost, medium. If enacted, the bill would bar use of funds made available by this Act to provide financial assistance to any educational institution that allows an individual whose sex is male to participate in athletic programs designated for women or girls. The bill defines 'sex' as the reproductive biology and… - Temporary overtime exemption for adjusters: cost, medium. If enacted, the bill would create a temporary exemption from FLSA overtime for employees who adjust or evaluate claims after a declared major disaster. The exemption could last up to two years after the disaster. It would apply only to employees who work for employers not engaged in underwriting/se… - Limits on certain federally funded research: cost, medium. If enacted, the bill would bar several categories of federally funded research. It would stop CDC, NIH, and SAMHSA funds from supporting research that treats firearm crimes as a public‑health epidemic or that advocates gun restrictions. It would bar creating human embryos for research or research t… - Ban on certain diversity trainings: cost, medium. If enacted, the bill would bar using funds in this Act or any other Act for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, trainings, programs, offices, or policies that promote specified concepts, including Critical Race Theory and related ideas. Agencies and grantees could lose federal support for… - Tighter procurement and supplier rules: cost, medium. If enacted, the bill would bar using FY2027 funds to buy office computers, printers, or interoperable videoconferencing services from firms with any People's Republic of China ownership stake. It would also bar procurement of goods or services mined or produced with forced or indentured child labor… - Stops Title X abortion referrals and funding: cost, low. If enacted, this bill would bar using funds in this Act to require any Title X project to refer for abortions. It would also bar HHS funds from being used to run programs that provide information promoting or facilitating abortion access. Providers could follow state laws that limit abortion referr… - No new electronic union voting: cost, low. If enacted, the bill would prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from issuing any new directive or regulation that would allow employees to vote electronically in a representation (union) election. The ban would apply to funds in this Act and prior appropriations Acts. - Veteran employment report requirement: cost, low. If enacted, the bill would bar the government from awarding or renewing a federal contract to a firm subject to the annual veterans employment report requirement if the firm failed to file that annual report for the most recent year. Contracting officials would enforce the rule upon enactment. - Higher education funding and protections: mixed, high. If enacted, the bill would set Higher Education Act funding at $16.27 billion for FY2027 and specify $1.236 billion for FY2028 and later years. The bill would require each TRIO program to get at least its FY2026 allocation and set application and award notice dates to keep grants on schedule. Colle… - Ban on COVID‑19 mask or vaccine mandates: mixed, high. If enacted, the bill would prohibit using funds in this Act to establish, implement, administer, or enforce any COVID‑19 mask or vaccine mandate. Recipients of Act funding could not impose such mandates using those funds. - More funding for job training and apprenticeships: mixed, high. If enacted, the bill would provide major increases for workforce programs, including $290 million to expand registered apprenticeships (available July 1, 2027–June 30, 2028), about $1.81 billion for WIOA adult and dislocated worker grants for FY2027 with specified availability dates, and $325.859 m… - State formula grants and education transfers: mixed, high. If enacted, the bill would require the Secretary to award each State the amounts required by law for formula grants under ESEA, McKinney‑Vento, IDEA, Perkins, and adult education when funds become available. The bill would let the Department of Education transfer up to 1% of any discretionary appro… - Job Corps centers, meals, and donations: mixed, medium. If enacted, the bill would let Job Corps operators accept grants, donations, materials, and equipment in fiscal year 2027 to carry out WIOA subtitle C activities, so long as those resources do not satisfy existing contract obligations. It would bar using Job Corps funds to pay any salary or bonus a… - K-12 school funding and rules: mixed, medium. If enacted, the bill would provide about $16.8 billion for Title I for the 2027–2028 school year and about $1.64 billion for Impact Aid in FY2027. For school year 2026–2027, some military‑connected students who lost eligibility because of deployment, custody changes, or a military parent's death wo… - National service awards and AmeriCorps rules: mixed, medium. If enacted, AmeriCorps programs that get National Service Trust grants would need a minimum 24% non‑Federal share for their first three years and then follow existing matching rules. Donations must supplement, not supplant, program operations. The CEO of the Corporation for National and Community S… - Agency spending, evaluation, and transparency rules: mixed, medium. If enacted, this bill would let labor, HHS, and education agencies move unspent balances into current accounts for the same purposes. It would let some ACF and BLS research funds be obligated through September 30, 2031 and allow immediate reobligation of unspent contract amounts. The Secretary of L… - Limits on federal abortion funding: mixed, medium. If enacted, the bill would bar using funds in this Act or in trust funds covered by it to pay for any abortion or for health plan packages that include abortion. Exceptions would allow abortions in cases of rape or incest and when a physician certifies the woman's life would be endangered. The bill… - NIH multiyear and indirect cost limits: mixed, medium. If enacted, the bill would let NIH obligate certain multiyear award amounts in fiscal year 2027 up to the amount that was obligated for multiyear awards in FY2025. The bill would also bar NIH from using funds to pay facilities and administration costs above 30 percent of an award for institutions s… - Stricter rules on moving federal money: mixed, medium. If enacted, the bill would restrict agencies' ability to reprogram or transfer funds. Agencies must consult Appropriations Committees 15 days and notify 10 days before many reprogrammings. Reprogramming that exceeds $500,000 or 10 percent (whichever is less) would need the same notice. The bill wou… - Block unique health identifier standard: mixed, low. If enacted, the bill would prohibit using Act funds to finalize a rule that assigns a unique health identifier to individuals under section 1173(b) of the Social Security Act, except for an individual acting as an employer or health care provider. Such a rule could not go forward without new legisl… - Changes to H‑2B worker rules: mixed, low. If enacted, the bill would change several H‑2B temporary worker rules. Prevailing wages would be set at the higher of the employer's actual wage or the local prevailing wage, and private wage surveys must generally be accepted. Seafood employers with approved petitions could bring workers anytime i… - Limits on agency advocacy and speech: mixed, low. If enacted, the bill would bar using funds in this Act for publicity or propaganda that supports or opposes legislation or regulations outside normal executive‑legislative relationships. It would bar paying grants or contracts to influence legislation or regulation. The bill would also prohibit ask… - Rules for flags at federal facilities: mixed, low. If enacted, the bill would bar agencies funded by this Act from flying or displaying any flag over a federal facility other than a short list (U.S. flag, state flag, Tribal flag, official agency flag, POW/MIA flag, Public Health Service flag, or Surgeon General flag). - Limits syringe and consumption funding: mixed, low. If enacted, this bill would bar use of these funds to buy sterile needles or syringes for injecting illegal drugs and would ban funding for supervised consumption sites for Schedule I drugs. There is a narrow exception for syringe purchases if a State or local health department, with CDC consultati… ## Related bills - 119-hr-5304: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 - 119-hr-6766: Essential Caregivers Act of 2025 - 119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act - 119-hr-21: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act - 119-hr-5483: Chloe Cole Act - 119-hr-3105: Promotion and Expansion of Private Employee Ownership Act of 2025 ## Sources - [119-hr-9260 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/9260) ## Related - [119-hr-5304: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Age…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5304) - [119-hr-6766: Essential Caregivers Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6766) - [119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1262) - [119-hr-21: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-21) - [119-hr-5483: Chloe Cole Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5483) - [119-hr-3105: Promotion and Expansion of Private Employee Ownership Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3105) - [All bills in Congress](https://policyrisk.com/legislation) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9260 (as of 2026-09-24).