Legacy Act of 2025

House Bill

H.R. 5861

119th Congress

Legacy Act of 2025

In Committee

Introduced:Oct 28, 2025

Primary Sponsor

Chellie Pingree

Representative

Democratic

ME-1

Cosponsors

1

Quick Stats

Policy Area

Labor and Employment

Summary

This bill makes permanent a recent policy that allows the Department of Labor to provide reemployment services and eligibility assessments to all unemployment insurance claimants, not just a subset. This helps ensure that all workers who lose their jobs can access support to find new employment.

Latest Action

Became Public Law No: 118-120.

SponsorChellie Pingree (D-ME)

Introduced10/28/2025

StatusReferred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

ChamberHouse

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Legacy Act of 2025

This bill makes permanent a recent policy that allows the Department of Labor to provide reemployment services and eligibility assessments to all unemployment insurance claimants, not just a subset. This helps ensure that all workers who lose their jobs can ac

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This bill makes permanent a recent policy that allows the Department of Labor to provide reemployment services and eligibility assessments to all unemployment insurance claimants, not just a subset. This helps ensure that all workers who lose their jobs can access support to find new employment.

Bill Number: 5861
Sponsor: Chellie Pingree (D-ME)
Introduced: 10/28/2025
Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Policy Area: Labor and Employment

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Fact Sheet

Title: Legacy Act of 2025
Bill Number: 5861
Sponsor: Chellie Pingree (D-ME)
Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced: 10/28/2025
Summary: This bill makes permanent a recent policy that allows the Department of Labor to provide reemployment services and eligibility assessments to all unemployment insurance claimants, not just a subset. This helps ensure that all workers who lose their jobs can access support to find new employment.

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Plain-English explanation of this bill

This bill makes permanent a recent policy that allows the Department of Labor to provide reemployment services and eligibility assessments to all unemployment insurance claimants, not just a subset. This helps ensure that all workers who lose their jobs can access support to find new employment.

Last updated: 12/29/2025

Official Summary

Congressional Research Service summary

Building on Reemployment Improvements to Deliver Good Employment for Workers Act or the BRIDGE for Workers ActThis bill permanently expands the allowable purposes for certain Department of Labor grants to states for reemployment services and eligibility assessments. Specifically, the bill permanently allows these grants to be used to fund reemployment services and eligibility assessments for all claimants for unemployment compensation.(Under the current statute, the grants may only be used to provide such services to a subset of claimants who have been identified by the state as likely to exhaust unemployment benefits and need job search assistance to become employed. However, in recent years, annual appropriations acts have allowed the grants to be used for all claimants for unemployment compensation. This bill makes this authority permanent.)

Key Points

Main provisions of the bill

Permanently expands the allowable uses of Department of Labor grants to states for reemployment services and eligibility assessments to cover all unemployment insurance claimants, not just a subset
Builds on recent temporary changes that have allowed these services to be provided to all claimants, making this authority permanent
Aims to help ensure all workers who lose their jobs can access support and resources to find new employment

How This Impacts Americans

Potential effects on citizens and communities

If this bill becomes law, all workers who file for unemployment insurance will be able to access reemployment services and eligibility assessments from their state, regardless of their specific circumstances. This could benefit millions of Americans who lose their jobs each year, providing them with tools and guidance to find new employment more quickly.

Policy Areas

Primary Policy Area

Labor and Employment

Related Subjects

Employment and training programs

Unemployment

Scope & Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction Level

federal

Congressional Session

119th Congress

Citation Reference

5861, 119th Congress (2025). "Legacy Act of 2025". Source: Voter's Right Platform. https://votersright.org/bills/118-hr-5861

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