The purpose of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is to comprehensively study and review matters relating to health, education and training, and public welfare. According to Rule 25, the HELP Committee of the Standing Rules of the Senate also has jurisdiction over proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters related to the following subjects:
- Measures related to education, labor, health, and public welfare
- Aging
- Agricultural colleges
- Arts and humanities
- Biomedical research and development
- Child labor
- Convict labor and the entry of goods made by convicts into interstate commerce
- Domestic activities of the American National Red Cross
- Equal employment opportunity
- Gallaudet College, Howard University, and Saint Elizabeth's Hospital
- Individuals with disabilities
- Labor standards and labor statistics
- Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes
- Occupational safety and health, including the welfare of miners
- Private pension plans
- Public health
- Railway labor and retirement
- Regulation of foreign laborers
- Student loans
- Wages and hours of labor
(Committee on Rules & Administration, n.d.)
