American Legislation

Changes procedures for families with young children regarding lead-based paint; details not publicly available.

Designates the Endless Mountains National Heritage Area in Pennsylvania; sets coordinating entity, management plan deadline, and a 15-year limit on federal assistance.

Senate bill would impose sanctions after deaths of political prisoners in Hong Kong; referred to Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Restores EPA responsibility to protect health and environment, halts certain deregulatory actions, and requires Clean Air Act enforcement.

Creates a service academy called the United States Space Academy and requires it be located in Florida.

Raises the minimum amount in controversy for federal diversity cases to $150,000, indices the threshold every 10 years via CPI-U, rounds to $25,000 increments, and preserves cost-shifting for low-recovery plaintiffs.

Senate proposal aims to strengthen protections for religious practice, potentially broadening exemptions and affecting anti-discrimination rules and public services.

Aims to renew the Farmworker Coordinator position to continue coordinating farmworker programs and outreach, without detailing duties or funding.

Provides federal support to upgrade rural and Native-serving schools' STEM labs and high-speed internet, plus modernization of career and technical education facilities.

Keeps four education offices' programs inside the department, blocks new interagency contracts or transfers, with a February 1, 2025 grace period for existing arrangements.

Proposes a single, biological definition of sex for Title IX rules in federally funded education programs, with possible impacts on transgender and nonbinary students and access to facilities and teams.

Transfers about 21,578 acres from a national park to a native corporation, with reserved public easements and safeguards against mining or development that would harm a cultural site.

This proposal would require random assignment of civil cases to judges and to appellate panels, with limited reassignment, mandated transparency, and sanctions for attempts to manipulate the process.

Updates FCC procedures and materials to improve communication coordination during disasters for state, local, Tribal, and territorial officials.

Establishes an independent ombudsperson to monitor facilities, investigate complaints, and publicly report monthly data on immigrant children in custody, with cross-agency coordination, annual oversight, and privacy protections.

Rule allowing utilities to recover full incremental grid upgrade costs from very large data centers, with required financial assurances and timelines for regulators.

Allows qualifying prior learning assessment costs in college cost of attendance calculations and sets standards for credit assessments.

this measure requires a designated temporary protection status for eligible individuals for a fixed end date, directing agencies to process applications and issue work authorization as applicable.

Creates grants for EMS and first responder mental health, suicide prevention, and family support; $7.5M authorized yearly for 2028–2032.

A proposal to reorganize reserve and National Guard duty authorities into a single chapter with four categories and remote assignments.

The Department of Justice would develop command-level leadership curricula, certify courses, publish agency participation lists, and be reviewed by GAO.

Exempts small marginal wells from air‑quality performance standards and related monitoring, reporting, and repair rules, potentially reducing emissions information and altering enforcement and state plan requirements.

Proposes housing stipends and benefit credits for apprentices and on-the-job training, with full-month entitlement and construction-sector safeguards.

Removes certain duties on phosphate fertilizer imports from Morocco and provides for refunds of eligible cash deposits.