Support federal funding of Hatch Act research, Smith-Lever cooperative extension, McIntire-Stennis cooperative forestry research, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), NIFA Research Facilities Act funding for infrastructure renewal and renovation. FY 2026 Agriculture Appropriations and passage of a Farm Bill. FY 2026 Agriculture Appropriations H.R. 4121 S. 2256 Title I, Research and Extension
Support federal funding for NIH research related to comparative medicine, zoonotic diseases, animal models of human disease research and other medical related research for biomedical research, veterinary medicine. FY2026 Appropriations for Labor/HHS/Education yet to be introduced or assigned bill numbers.
FY 2026 appropriations funding for federally funded, extramural research and development at DOD, DOE, NSF, NASA, NOAA, NEH, NEA, Department of Education, HHS, NIH and other federal research funding. Advocating for federal funding of student aid including Pell, SEOG and Work-Study funding FY 2026 Agriculture Appropriations H.R. 4121 S. 2256 Title I, Research and Extension FY 2026 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations S. 2354, No House Bill number yet. NSF research, NIST Advanced Manufacturing Institutes and MEP, NASA research. FY 2026 Defense Appropriations H.R. 4016, no Senate bill number. Title IV, RDT&E funding for fundamental and applied research across Navy, Army, Air Force and defense-wide.
FY2026 Appropriations and the Budget Reconciliation (HR 1) No FY 2026 Appropriations Bill numbers are available. Support student aid in the Pell, SEOG and Work-Study programs as well as education related research and scholarship supported by the Department of Education FIPSE and FIE research programs. FY 2026 Appropriations measures (No bill number yet) for federal financial aid and research funding within the Department of Education.
FY 2026 Appropriations Defense H.R. 4016 (no Senate bill number yet) for defense research and development funding, TItle IV. FY 2026 appropriations for Defense including funding for 6.1 and 6.2 funding at the Army, Navy, Air Force and defense-wide research.
No specific bills yet introduced during the 119th Congress that specifically impact university owned IP. Support robust patent protections for university-based discoveries and licensing agreements and the ability to defend patents from infringement.
FY 2026 Energy and Water Appropriations (no bill numbers yet) related to Nuclear Energy support to university based reactors and support additional research funding for the university program in the Nuclear Energy office of the Department of Energy.
Federal support for DHS research and development related to wild-land fires, first responder technologies and other research related to the textiles, first responders, and structural firefighting. FY 2026 Appropriations H.R. 4213 no Senate bill number.
National Science Foundation, NASA SpaceGrant and NASA Office of Science, NOAA OAR and SeaGrant funding, Department of Defense 6.1 and 6.2 funding, Department of Energy EERE, Office of Science, Nuclear Energy. NIH and HHS research funding. Department of Education FIPSE and FIE funding, USDA Hatch, McIntire-Stennis and AFRI funding in FY 2026 - FY 2026 Agriculture Appropriations H.R. 4121 S. 2256 Title I, Research and Extension FY 2026 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations S. 2354, No House Bill number yet. NSF research, NIST Advanced Manufacturing Institutes and MEP, NASA research. FY 2026 Defense Appropriations H.R. 4016, no Senate bill number. Title IV, RDT&E funding for fundamental and applied research across Navy, Army, Air Force and defense-wide. FY 2026 funding levels for extramural research and development
Name-Image-Likeness legislation. The Score Act, HR 4312, that would support student-athletes and and limited antitrust exemptions to allow universities, conferences the NCAA to regulate the marketplace of NIL for student athletes and coordination of standards and guidelines.
Federal research investments for US Forest Service, USDA, forestry, natural resources, US Geological Survey Cooperative Research Units (CRUs) including federal funding in FY 2025 FY2026 Appropriations USDA FY 2026 Agriculture Appropriations H.R. 4121 S. 2256 Title I, Research and Extension , US Department of Interior Appropriations(no House or Senate bill number yet) and other forestry research.