American Legislation

Requires FAA review and updates on low-altitude safety, obstruction marking, digital notices, and coordination with land agencies on a set timeline.

Extends and expands the TSA reimbursable screening services program through FY2031 and raises a cap from 8 to 14.

Updates management, evaluation, and competition rules for Hollings MEP centers, including financial oversight and faster operator selection.

Requires quarterly SBA Inspector General reports on suspected fraud involving COVID-19 small business loans; ends after two years; no new funding.

Allows voluntary public and private funding for shared infrastructure projects at NASA Centers, with transparency and refund rules.

Requires visible labels and embedded machine-readable provenance for AI-created or AI-altered images, audio, and video; sets enforcement and standards processes.

Creates a nonprofit to build and connect local digital fabrication workshops for education, workforce training, and community use.

Creates a DOT program to fund and advise development and deployment of zero-emission vessels and supporting infrastructure, with workforce and community provisions.

Directs the Secretary of Transportation to require vehicle tech to detect and prevent frontovers and to add frontover/backover reporting to crash data.

Requires AI chatbots to include child-safety design, age checks, parental settings, audits, and bans on child-directed ads and sale of children's data.

Creates grants and equipment rules to improve safety around frozen dessert trucks for children.

Creates grants, a national strategy, and an online clearinghouse for semiconductor and microelectronics workforce training and credentials.

Removes certain federal restrictions tied to dredging and the transport of dredged material by repealing parts of the Foreign Dredge Act.

Alters maritime code to remove certain dredging requirements and exclude dredged material from transportation rules; changes vessel certificate eligibility provisions.

Bars use of unquantified or non-monetized factors in federal regulatory economic analyses and requires public posting and updated OMB guidance.

Requires federal scorecards to report first-time small-business prime contract winners by NAICS code and define key terms.

Bars most SBA financial help for people finally convicted of certain loan or grant fraud and for businesses with such associates; 7(b) aid excluded.

Requires SBA and GAO reports on veteran and reservist small business outreach and credit access; no new funding authorized.

Allows nonprofit child care centers to access SBA 7(a) and 504 loans through participating lenders, with eligibility rules and annual reporting.

Requires SBA to pursue collections on most COVID-era small-business loans, extends oversight and reporting, harmonizes fraud timelines, and posts recoveries data.

Creates an SBA pilot program allowing eligible small businesses to use commodity futures or derivatives to limit input cost risk; gasoline and diesel included.