American Legislation

The bill would amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act to speed drug development. Text not included; referred to House committees.

A resolution supports awareness of learning disabilities and continued educational support for affected students.

Authorizes financial restitution to survivors after rights violations; details on eligibility and funding are not publicly available.

Reauthorizes and funds mosquito and vector surveillance, control, training, and Strategic National Stockpile coordination, 2026-2030.

Extends authorization for advanced drinking water technology grants to cover 2027–2031.

Designates maritime prosperity zones to receive opportunity-zone-like tax benefits for qualifying maritime businesses and investments, with Commerce and Treasury overseeing nomination and certification.

Lawmakers would create a VA mental-health care pilot at five or more facilities with dedicated housing for incarcerated veterans.

Expands campus suicide prevention by supporting student groups and boosting 988 hotline outreach and ID card listing.

Phase federal minimum wage to two-thirds of the national median; phase out subminimum wages and set employer schedules and definitions.

Most career park and forest workers cannot be laid off until Sept 30, 2030 without top budget leaders' OK. That keeps services steadier for visitors and towns.

A federal proposal to remove cost-sharing for PrEP and PEP, expand coverage across public programs, protect confidentiality, and curb insurance discrimination.

Requires VA to add certain FDA non-opioid postoperative pain drugs to its formulary and drug lists within set timelines.

Expands disability and Medicare timing for young-onset Alzheimer's, using precedent for immediate entitlement and delegating the diagnosis definition to agency guidance.

Lets physical therapists join a federal loan-repayment program and lets some clinics bill Medicare for physical therapy starting 2027. This may increase access in rural and underserved areas.

Farmers could hay or graze some acres in emergencies and get cost help for fences and water. Rental payments could rise to $125,000 per person.

A bill would require HUD to investigate pad-site price gouging in manufactured-home communities and publish a report within 270 days.

Codifies protections for inventoried roadless areas in national forests, restricting road building, road reconstruction, and logging where the Roadless Rule currently bans them.

House lawmakers would ban under-18 work involving direct contact with tobacco plants or dried leaves under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The bill has been referred to a House committee.

Requires private health plans to cover treatment of certain congenital oral and facial anomalies.

Removes taxation of Social Security benefits and changes payroll tax and benefit rules for high earners after 2025.

Reauthorizes and updates the federal program that pays for breast and cervical cancer screening for low-income and underinsured people, adds equity and navigation provisions, and requires a GAO report.

Medicare Part B coverage for home infusion augmentation therapy for Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, effective January 1, 2027.

Proposes banning cosmetic animal testing in the United States after one year and barring interstate sale or transport of cosmetics developed using such testing, with narrow exemptions.

Changes trade remedy rules on dumping, subsidies, circumvention, currency, and importer requirements.