American Legislation

Reauthorizes and updates landslide preparedness programs, adds definitions for atmospheric rivers and extreme precipitation, expands partners, and funds early warning systems through 2030.

Requires NOAA to develop AI weather models, datasets, and partnerships to improve forecasts and wildfire information sharing.

Creates a Commerce Department advisory committee to support U.S. leadership, best practices, and security for blockchain, tokens, and tokenization; requires reports and ends after seven years.

Reauthorizes and funds a commission to protect and restore Northwest Straits marine habitats and species; sets membership, duties, and reporting.

Creates a NIST pilot to build testbeds and measurement standards for evaluating AI systems used by federal agencies.

Requires large online platforms to let users move data, interoperate with rivals, and allow third-party account managers under FTC rules.

Bans federal contractors from using DeepSeek and requires a one-year report on foreign-affiliated AI risks and data security.

Directs OSTP and agencies to create guidelines and collect data to reduce financial instability of graduate and postdoctoral researchers.

Allows certain Coast Guard vessel work or purchases from allied foreign shipyards when specific cost, timeline, and security conditions are met.

Requires app stores to verify users' ages, get parental consent for minors, and share age-category signals with app developers.

Stops data brokers from selling servicemembers' lists to covered nations or persons controlled by them; authorizes FTC and states to enforce.

Creates a Commerce Department office to speed large investments and coordinate related federal efforts, including for CHIPS and research partnerships.

Requires NASA to maintain rocket engine testing capabilities at Stennis and brief Congress on testing plans.

Continues a traffic safety data research partnership with confidentiality and data ownership protections.

Continues NASA modernization of rocket engine test facilities to boost capability, safety, and commercial access while protecting core government programs.

Study on treating TSA travel between duty stations and parking or transit stops as on‑duty time.

Directs NOAA to improve subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasts, fund modeling, and create workforce and an online clearinghouse for forecasts and related information.

Makes the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation eligible for federal rail and infrastructure grants with up to 100% federal share.

Requires car makers to give owners and repairers access to vehicle data, repair information, parts, and tools, and sets agency rules and enforcement.

Requires NOAA to collaborate with states, tribes, and communities on ocean and coastal acidification assessments and research planning.

Creates regional ocean innovation hubs to support jobs, research, and partnerships across the Blue Economy.

Requires standards and labeling for AI-generated and edited media, protects creators, and sets enforcement rules.

Improves coordination on quantum research, creates a Manufacturing USA institute for quantum manufacturing, and requires studies on program progress and collaboration.