HR 2540 — SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act

Congress 119

Latest action: — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Lobbied by (6)

LDA filings that named this bill in their activity descriptions. The lobbying firm (registrant) is paid by the client to lobby on this and related issues.

Filing	Period	Registrant (lobbying firm)	Client	Income	Matched
1st Quarter - Report	2026 first_quarter	NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS	NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS	—	`H.R. 2540`
1st Quarter - Report	2026 first_quarter	NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN	NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN	—	`HR 2540`
1st Quarter - Report	2026 first_quarter	MELWOOD INC., (FORMERLY KNOWN AS MELWOOD HTC)	MELWOOD INC., (FORMERLY KNOWN AS MELWOOD HTC)	—	`H.R. 2540`
1st Quarter - Report	2026 first_quarter	PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA	PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA	—	`H.R. 2540`
1st Quarter - Report	2026 first_quarter	162 STRATEGIES	NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY CLAIMANTS' REPRESENTATIVES	$50,000	`HR 2540`
1st Quarter - Report	2026 first_quarter	CURE SMA	CURE SMA	—	`H.R.2540`

Action timeline

2025-04-01 · H11100 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
2025-04-01 · Intro-H — Introduced in House
2025-04-01 · 1000 — Introduced in House

Text versions

Introduced in House · 2025-04-01 — open

Connected on the graph

Inbound (10)

date	from	type	amount	role	source
—	LaLota, Nick	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	Lawler, Michael	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	Wied, Tony	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	Magaziner, Seth	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2026-01-01	NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY CLAIMANTS' REPRESENTATIVES	lobbies_on_bill	—	HR 2540	lobbying_bill_mention
2026-01-01	MELWOOD INC., (FORMERLY KNOWN AS MELWOOD HTC)	lobbies_on_bill	—	H.R. 2540	lobbying_bill_mention
2026-01-01	PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA	lobbies_on_bill	—	H.R. 2540	lobbying_bill_mention
2026-01-01	CURE SMA	lobbies_on_bill	—	H.R.2540	lobbying_bill_mention
2026-01-01	NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN	lobbies_on_bill	—	HR 2540	lobbying_bill_mention
2026-01-01	NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS	lobbies_on_bill	—	H.R. 2540	lobbying_bill_mention

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#	Member	Role	Speeches	Voted	Score
1	Lawler, Michael (R, house NY-17)	cosponsor	1	—	2
2	Magaziner, Seth (D, house RI-2)	cosponsor	1	—	2
3	Wied, Tony (R, house WI-8)	cosponsor	1	—	2
4	LaLota, Nick (R, house NY-1)	cosponsor	0	—	1

Who's influencing them

Orgs ranked by combined money flow on this bill: LDA filings citing the bill + individual contributions in cycle 2026from donors whose employer matches the org name (Schedule A) to any principal committee in the "who matters" list above.

#	Org	LDA filings	LDA spend	Donor employees	Employee donations	Total
1	NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY CLAIMANTS' REPRESENTATIVES	1	$50,000	0	$0	$50,000
2	retired	0	$0	44	$8,258	$8,258
3	castle harlan, inc.	0	$0	1	$7,000	$7,000
4	berenson partners, llc.	0	$0	1	$3,643	$3,643
5	thirdpoint llc	0	$0	1	$3,500	$3,500
6	ohio machinery co.	0	$0	1	$3,500	$3,500
7	not employed	0	$0	17	$3,115	$3,115
8	northwell health	0	$0	2	$3,000	$3,000
9	self employed	0	$0	3	$2,241	$2,241
10	cordary inc.	0	$0	1	$2,000	$2,000
11	regency centers	0	$0	1	$1,500	$1,500
12	hellman management	0	$0	1	$1,000	$1,000
13	barlow designs inc	0	$0	1	$1,000	$1,000
14	suburban hospital alliance of nys	0	$0	1	$1,000	$1,000
15	cammebys	0	$0	1	$1,000	$1,000
16	nela realty llc	0	$0	1	$500	$500
17	berbromgt	0	$0	1	$500	$500
18	longbow public policy	0	$0	1	$500	$500
19	sandra van den broek	0	$0	1	$500	$500
20	state of rhode island	0	$0	1	$250	$250
21	reliant parking	0	$0	1	$250	$250
22	philips	0	$0	1	$250	$250
23	town of clarkstown	0	$0	1	$250	$250
24	nys doccs - sing sing	0	$0	1	$200	$200
25	new york police department	0	$0	1	$150	$150

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

4 predicted yes (1%) · 3 predicted no (1%) · 536 unknown (98%)

By party: · R: 3 yes / 0 no / 274 unknown · D: 1 yes / 0 no / 262 unknown · I: 0 yes / 3 no

4 high-confidence positions (voted + sponsor + cosponsor)

LaLota, Nick (R · house · NY-1) · cosponsor
Lawler, Michael (R · house · NY-17) · cosponsor
Magaziner, Seth (D · house · RI-2) · cosponsor
Wied, Tony (R · house · WI-8) · cosponsor

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

2026-05-17 · cosponsored by Wied, Tony (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2026-05-17 · cosponsored by LaLota, Nick (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2026-05-17 · cosponsored by Magaziner, Seth (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2026-05-17 · cosponsored by Lawler, Michael (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2026-01-01 · lobbied on by CURE SMA (h.r.2540) · lobbying_bill_mention
2026-01-01 · lobbied on by NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS (h.r. 2540) · lobbying_bill_mention
2026-01-01 · lobbied on by MELWOOD INC., (FORMERLY KNOWN AS MELWOOD HTC) (h.r. 2540) · lobbying_bill_mention
2026-01-01 · lobbied on by PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA (h.r. 2540) · lobbying_bill_mention
2026-01-01 · lobbied on by NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY CLAIMANTS' REPRESENTATIVES (hr 2540) · lobbying_bill_mention
2026-01-01 · lobbied on by NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (hr 2540) · lobbying_bill_mention

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