American Legislation

Rescinds Small Business Administration rule on citizenship, residency, and ownership for 7(a) and 504 loans.

Gives The Dalles, Oregon a 150-acre tract of Mount Hood National Forest if the city requests it within one year.

Requires SBA to follow GAO IT recommendations and submit a plan to improve IT project risk management, schedules, and cost estimates.

Adds 'smoke' to the Small Business Act definition of disaster.

SBA direct loan program: loans up to $100,000 for qualifying microbusinesses, eligibility rules, fees, and third-party partnerships

Requires SBA and HUD to coordinate loans, help, and programs for housing small businesses and publish an interagency plan.

Encourages SCORE volunteers to teach entrepreneurship in after-school community learning centers for underrepresented students, with curriculum, partnerships, reports, and funding.

Requires Interior to identify and support reforestation on federal and Indian lands after unplanned disturbances, with grants, contracts, outreach, and annual reports.

Allows Interior to buy nearby land for Katahdin Woods and adjust boundaries; sets rules for recreation, fiddlehead gathering, timber work, and visitor facilities.

Standardizes and publishes GIS data on federal waterway access, navigation, and fishing restrictions with deadlines and reporting requirements.

Extends and updates authorization dates for the Colorado River System conservation pilot program.

Allows state partnerships with community groups to reclaim abandoned coal mine lands and address mine drainage; requires approval, public notice, and state financial responsibility.

Directs DOE and SBA to form joint R&D agreements, include small businesses, report to Congress in two years; no new funding authorized.

Would end the January 20, 2025 energy national emergency; Senate vote failed 47-52.

Allows two local water entities to perform maintenance on Bolts Ditch headgate within the Holy Cross Wilderness.

Repeals specific IRA home electrification subsidy sections and rescinds unspent funds.

Modifies repayment rules for the Arkansas Valley Conduit: makes certain payments interest-free and sets a 100-year repayment schedule for construction funding from non-federal sources.

Allows temporary use of vacant federal grazing allotments when permit holders face disaster-related loss of access; agencies must set guidelines and evaluate allotments.

Adds North Las Vegas and Apex Industrial Park Owners Association to Apex land transfers; updates mineral sale and environmental rules.

Makes Congress, not the President, the only authority to establish or extend national monuments under section 320301.

Allows border states to place temporary movable structures on adjacent federal lands with notice to federal agencies.

Directs 25% of certain oil, gas, and AI infrastructure revenues into a fund to pay down the federal debt.

Requires Interior to hold 20 Gulf lease sales over 10 years, changes NEPA litigation handling, and extends parts of the Eastern Gulf moratorium to 2035.

Rescinds two Presidential memoranda withdrawing parts of the outer Continental Shelf from oil and gas leasing.