American Legislation

Creates a NIST AI center, testbeds, public datasets, grand challenges, and international coordination for voluntary AI standards and research support.

Supports NSF scholarships, fellowships, centers, research, and guidance to expand AI and quantum education and workforce development.

Reauthorizes NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office to lead monitoring, education, and habitat restoration across the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Phases out MC numbers, strengthens anti-fraud checks, adds registration and reporting rules for carriers, brokers, drivers, and training providers.

Honors men's and women's ice hockey gold medals at Milano Cortina 2026.

Establishes federal research, monitoring, and standards for marine carbon dioxide removal with tribal consultation and public reporting.

Reauthorizes and updates NIDIS with new research priorities, technology, data coordination, and funding for 2026–2030.

Restricts CDLs to citizens, LPRs, or certain work-visa holders; requires recertification and allows withholding of federal funding for noncompliant States.

Updates and expands the hurricane forecast program to fund research, new observations, social science work, and annual reporting through 2029.

Senate resolution praising and supporting U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes at the 2026 Winter Games in Italy.

Directs new safety rules for trains carrying hazardous materials, inspections, crew sizes, defect detectors, tank car upgrades, and emergency response funding and reports.

Directs DOE and NOAA to jointly develop and test advanced computing methods for improved weather and climate models and report to Congress.

Allows states to use leftover BEAD funds for sirens, sensors, and related IT through competitive subgrants.

Requires FAA to publish plans, timelines, issue-paper rules, and delegation guidance to support certification of new aircraft technologies.

Requires data gathering, working groups, and reports to reduce deaths and injuries near disabled vehicles and road work zones.

Requires the FTC to study firearm advertising, report to Congress, and issue rules banning unfair or deceptive firearms marketing, including youth-targeted or illegal-use messaging.

Reauthorizes and updates tsunami warning, research, mitigation, and outreach; requires tribal consultation and studies; authorizes $35M annually 2027–2031.

Requires Commerce to create and update AI training toolkits for small businesses, coordinate distribution, report to Congress, and sunsets after three years.

Limits excessive grocery prices, bans surveillance-based pricing, requires facial recognition notices, and restricts electronic shelf labels for large stores.

Requires electronics makers to share repair documentation, parts, and tools with owners and independent repairers; bans parts-pairing limits; enforced by the FTC.

Directs DOT to propose new federal seat belt rules for all new school buses within 180 days, considering lap/shoulder belts and related systems.

Establishes a national system to notify employers and drivers when commercial driver licenses or records change, with school bus rules.

Creates an NSF prize program to fund AI teams addressing major technical challenges, including a large cancer-focused competition.

Creates a program to design and plan replacement of the NEXRAD network, test new radars, and allow partnerships to fill coverage gaps by 2040.