Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to amend chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, to cover, for purposes of workers' compensation under such chapter, services by physician assistants and nurse practitioners provided to injured Federal workers, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen. Susan Collins R-MEWhere it went
- IntroducedDec 2, 2025
- Committee actionAug 6, 2026
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 14, 2026 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 568.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 3296.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 3296, Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act of 2025” on August 25, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on August 6, 2026”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 25, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62726
- CBO publication date
- August 25, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 3296, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/3296
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 2, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 3, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of October 2, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
10 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 8 Democrats
8 of 10 cosponsors (80%) are from the other party.
Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), John Boozman (R-AR), Christopher Coons (D-DE), John Fetterman (D-PA), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Bernie Moreno (R-OH), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Mark Warner (D-VA).
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Related bills
- H.R. 3170 (119th) Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act of 2025Related bill
- H.R. 618 (118th) Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers ActCross-Congress related bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 3, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.