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H.R. 3170119th CongressGovernment Operations and Politics
Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) · 17 active : 10 Republicans, 7 Democrats
Latest action: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 343.
Where it standsBefore the House40 representatives score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- House: next
- Senate: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govImproving Access to Workers' Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act of 2025
This bill expands the role of nurse practitioners and physician assistants in providing services to injured federal workers under the federal workers' compensation program.
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Specifically, under the program, nurse practitioners and physician assistants acting within the scope of their practice may (1) prescribe or recommend treatment for injured federal workers; (2) certify the nature of an injury and probable extent of disability; (3) provide prescribed treatment for injured federal workers; and (4) participate, with a physician designated by the Department of Labor, in a mandatory workers' compensation examination of an injured worker. In general, only physicians may fulfill these roles under current law.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Education and Workforce · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Disability assistance
- Employee benefits and pensions
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Health personnel
- Nursing
- Worker safety and health
How the Senate breaks down
- 9Swing 70–100
- 62Middle 30–70
- 29Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score. The bill is not before the Senate right now; these scores show where members would stand.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
17 activeShow all 17 cosponsors
- Joe Courtney (D-CT-2)
- Timothy M. Kennedy (D-NY-26)
- Mark B. Messmer (R-IN-8)
- Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA-7)
- Shri Thanedar (D-MI-13)
- Burgess Owens (R-UT-4)
- Michael Lawler (R-NY-17)
- Don Bacon (R-NE-2)
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC-AL)
- Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11)
- Virginia Foxx (R-NC-5)
- Bill Huizenga (R-MI-4)
- Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA-7)
- James R. Walkinshaw (D-VA-11)
- Randy Fine (R-FL-6)
- Donald Norcross (D-NJ-1)
- Jennifer A. Kiggans (R-VA-2)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
