Congress·In Committee·H.R. 2949

Working Families Task Force Act of 2025

Working Families: National Task Force Creation

Apr 17, 2025·View on Congress.gov·Read full text

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This bill is currently sitting in several House committees for review. Nothing has happened with this legislation since April 2025, which means it has been stalled for 14 months. It will not move forward unless these committees decide to take action.

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Unlikely to pass

While the bill has bipartisan support, it has been referred to seven different committees, which usually makes it much harder for a bill to move forward in the House.

How we got here

This bill’s path across every version that has carried it.

Reintroduced
Reintroduced from H.R. 2614 (118th), which died when its Congress ended.
H.R. 2614 (118th) →

Key Points

This bill creates a new group called the Working Families Task Force. It brings together leaders from nine different government agencies, including Labor, Education, and Housing, to find ways to help families improve their quality of life.
The task force will study the biggest problems facing families today, such as the high cost of child care, housing, and health care. They will also look at how inflation and low wages make it harder for people to save money or move up in their careers.
The group is tasked with coming up with new ideas for laws and rules. These could include better tax credits for children, more support for senior care, and ways to make sure every family has access to healthy food and reliable internet.
Within six months of being formed, the task force must share a report with Congress and the public. This report will explain what they found and provide a roadmap for how the government can help make life more affordable for working people.

Impact Analysis

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Milestones

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Apr 17, 2025House

Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Government Reform, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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Apr 17, 2025

Introduced in House

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Source Information

Document Type

Congressional Bill

Official Title

Working Families Task Force Act of 2025

Bill NumberHR 2949

Congress119th Congress

ChamberHouse of Representatives

Latest ActionReferred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Government Reform, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.