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2026-08-26 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) HHS/CDC CDC is seeking three-year approval to continue the National Survey of Family Growth, which collects nationally representative data from people ages 15–49 on fertility, contraception, pregnancy, infertility, relationships, sexual behavior, and related health care. The questionnaires would remain unchanged from those used since January 2026, while CDC would conduct small methodological studies to improve survey efficiency and data quality. Adoption/Families
2026-08-24 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey HHS/CMS CMS is extensively revising the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey beginning in 2027, replacing much of its broad access-to-care section with expanded questions on care coordination, trust in providers, and prior authorization, and adding questions on prescription-drug discount programs, nutrition, and hypertension management. It will remove or streamline questions on vaccine costs, religious affiliation, satisfaction with care, preventive screening, diabetes and incontinence management, and facility residents’ health, functioning, and billing, potentially ending some useful trend data even as it reduces duplication and overall survey burden. CMS will also introduce a web-based survey option for facilities. Healthcare
2026-08-24 Current Population Survey-Basic Labor Force DOL/BLS BLS is seeking to continue the monthly Current Population Survey, which produces national employment and unemployment statistics and allows labor-force outcomes to be analyzed by characteristics including age, sex, race and ethnicity, education, disability, and family composition. The survey also measures people who have stopped looking for work because they believe no jobs are available. BLS doesn't seem to be making any substantive changes to the survey at this time. Labor/Employment
2026-08-24 Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors (E.O. 14398) for Contract-Like Instruments GSA GSA is seeking approval for a new information collection to enforce Executive Order 14398, which bars federal contractors from engaging in what the order calls “racially discriminatory” DEI activities. The collection would extend the anti-DEI contract clause to GSA’s non-FAR contract-like instruments, including leases, concession contracts, and outleases, and would require contractors to provide records on request, report known or “reasonably knowable” subcontractor conduct that may violate the clause, and notify GSA if a subcontractor lawsuit challenges it. As a result of this form's requirements, prime contractors will need to monitor and report on subcontractors, which could discourage contractors and subcontractors from maintaining even lawful DEI or supplier-diversity work if they fear federal scrutiny, contract remedies, or being reported by a business partner. Non-Discrimination
2026-08-24 Removal of Reporting Requirements EEOC EEOC is proposing to abolish all six federal EEO workforce reports and their related recordkeeping requirements, ending the annual EEO-1 collection from large private employers and covered federal contractors as well as reporting by apprenticeship programs, unions, state and local governments, public schools, and colleges. The government would lose standardized data showing how workers are distributed by race and ethnicity, sex, occupation, salary level, and other employment categories. Although EEOC argues that the reports are burdensome, potentially unconstitutional, and may encourage discrimination, the data have long supported enforcement, employer self-assessment, research, and public accountability; eliminating them would leave the agency more dependent on individual complaints and case-specific requests, making systemic discrimination substantially harder to identify and document. Civil Rights
2026-08-24 Application for Disability Compensation Benefits VA VA is revising its main disability compensation application to make it shorter and easier to use, reducing the form from 15 pages to 5 pages and lowering the estimated time to complete it from 25 minutes to 15 minutes. This appears intended to reduce administrative burden for disabled veterans applying for benefits, which could be especially important for veterans with disabilities, limited time or support, lower literacy, or less reliable access to legal or claims assistance. Veterans
2026-08-24 Distraction: Modern Voice Command Interfaces DOT NHTSA is planning a driving-simulator study of six modern vehicle voice-command systems, comparing common tasks performed by voice and touchscreen. Using 144 drivers, the agency will measure lane control, speed, eye movements, reaction to a sudden road obstruction, and indicators of cognitive workload to assess whether voice interfaces reduce or contribute to distracted driving. Transportation
2026-08-22 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2027 Amendment 1 ED NCES is finalizing materials for the 2027 NAEP grade 8 science pilot, which will be administered primarily on school devices and will not produce publicly reported achievement results. NAEP will continue using the 1997 SPD 15 race and ethnicity standards for 2027 while developing plans for the 2024 standards, and has replaced references to gender with binary sex categories of male and female. Education
2026-08-21 Reporting Portal for Civil Rights Violations DOJ In this notice, DOJ is seeking continued approval for its Civil Rights Reporting Portal, the public online form people use to report potential civil rights violations to the Civil Rights Division. The notice does not disclose the changes in detail, but the supplemental materials show that DOJ is adding "gun ownership" as a discrimination type and removed “gender identity” as a selectable personal characteristic and changed “gender” references to “sex” in the hate-crime portions of the portal, even though federal hate-crimes law still expressly covers crimes motivated by actual or perceived gender identity. Civil Rights
2026-08-21 ACF and VA Data Sharing and Matching Program ACF ACF is re-establishing a quarterly data match in which Treasury’s Do Not Pay system will compare state records for Medicaid, TANF, SNAP, and general-assistance applicants and recipients with detailed VA compensation and pension records. States may use the matches to verify eligibility and identify potentially unreported income, although findings must be independently verified before benefits are denied, reduced, or terminated. Public Benefits
2026-08-20 NASA Assurance of Civil Rights Compliance NASA NASA is revising the civil-rights compliance form required from grant and cooperative-agreement applicants by removing references to DEI, gender identity, and the revoked federal language-access order, while adding shared-ancestry protections, including antisemitism, and a new requirement to report harassment allegations. The form will continue to collect information about discrimination complaints and compliance reviews, but the changes narrow its explicit recognition of LGBTQ and language-access protections; NASA is also removing a section linking recipients to civil-rights guidance because it no longer maintains that website. Civil Rights
2026-08-19 Disaster Business Loan Application SBA SBA is revising the disaster business loan application used by businesses and nonprofits after declared disasters. The changes replace the voluntary gender question with a binary sex question and remove “Other;" revise criminal-history screening to ask about incarceration following a conviction or an indictment for a felony or crime involving financial misconduct or false statements; and add consent for SBA to verify applicants’ information against Social Security Administration records. SBA is also standardizing the form’s required fields and instructions and updating website links. Emergency Management
2026-08-19 HHS Registration of an Institutional Review Board Form HHS HHS is simplifying the registration form for institutional review boards by eliminating the requirement to submit a roster listing each member’s sex, degrees, scientific role, expertise, and institutional affiliation. IRBs will still be legally required to maintain current rosters and meet federal standards for expertise, independence, and diverse membership, but HHS and FDA will no longer receive the information routinely through registration, reducing the agencies’ ability to monitor whether boards overseeing human-subject research are appropriately constituted and representative. Healthcare
2026-08-19 Disaster Home Loan Application SBA SBA is revising the disaster home loan application used by homeowners and renters after declared disasters. The changes replace the voluntary gender question with a binary sex question and remove “Other;" revise criminal-history screening to ask about incarceration following a conviction or an indictment for a felony or crime involving financial misconduct or false statements; and add consent for SBA to verify applicants’ information against Social Security Administration records. SBA is also standardizing required fields and instructions and updating electronic-communications language and website links. Emergency Management
2026-08-17 SAM Quarterly Certification of Compliance With Executive Order 14400, Urgent National Action To Save College Sports GSA In this notice, GSA is proposing a new SAM.gov reporting requirement for colleges and universities with at least $20 million in annual intercollegiate athletics revenue to certify quarterly that they are complying with Executive Order 14400. The certification is meant to help federal contracting and grantmaking agencies assess compliance with the EO’s rules on college athletics, including eligibility, transfers, revenue sharing, NIL/pay-for-play arrangements, and use of federal funds for athletics-related payments. Sports
2026-08-17 Fraud.gov Federal Program Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Tip Intake and Referral System Treasury This new form will act as a government-wide intake and referral portal for members of the public to report suspected waste, fraud, abuse, improper payments, misuse of Federal funds, and related misconduct affecting Federal programs. Federal Benefits
2026-08-17 Modernizing Suspension and Debarment Rules FCC In this notice, FCC is creating new disclosure and certification requirements tied to its modernized suspension and debarment rules, so participants in programs like Lifeline, E-Rate, Rural Health Care, High-Cost, and TRS have to certify compliance and disclose certain prior misconduct or exclusions. The stated purpose is to prevent “bad actors” from receiving federal communications funding; the compliance requirements attach to programs that support low-income people, schools and libraries, rural health providers, rural broadband, and people with disabilities. Federal Benefits
2026-08-17 Reporting of the Essentials for Childhood (EfC): Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences through Data to Action Program HHS/CDC CDC is revising reporting by Essentials for Childhood grantees, a program focused on preventing adverse childhood experiences through surveillance, prevention strategies, evaluation, and data-to-action work. The notice appears to formalize earlier EO-driven changes that remove or soften references to health equity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender/sex discrimination, and undocumented status. Health and Safety
2026-08-17 Requests for DOJ Certification Letters for T Visa Holders DOJ In this notice, DOJ is proposing a new process for T visa holders — survivors of human trafficking — to request certification letters needed to support an early application for lawful permanent residence. The notice does not itself change T visa or green card eligibility, but the process matters because delays, new documentation burdens, or added discretion could make it harder for trafficking survivors to obtain permanent status before the usual three-year mark. Immigration
2026-08-17 Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Survey HHS/CMS CMS is revising administration of the CAHPS for MIPS survey, which measures Medicare patients’ experiences with clinicians, by adding web as the first response mode and requiring survey vendors to report costs and information about their web-survey capabilities; the beneficiary questionnaire is otherwise unchanged. CMS plans to implement the 2024 SPD 15 combined race and ethnicity question for the 2028 performance year, using only the minimum categories rather than detailed groups, citing implementation needs and concerns about respondent confusion and already-low response rates. Healthcare
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