American Legislation

Recognizes August as Chicano/Chicana Heritage Month and encourages events honoring Mexican American contributions and history.

Raises debt caps for small-business debtors and Chapter 13 filers, expanding eligibility for streamlined reorganizations and affecting creditors, courts, and consumers seeking repayment plans.

Adds biotechnology to Title VIII, expanding safeguards and notifiable technology requirements for transfers, research, and partnerships.

a proposal to require a formal interagency agreement for sharing disaster relief data among housing, emergency management, and small business programs to improve coordination.

Expands the State Department's Regional Technology Officer program to recruit and train biotechnology experts, emphasizing biosecurity, ethics, and international rules for biotech diplomacy and overseas postings.

A one-year pilot program to train local and state officials to assess security risks at critical infrastructure and share voluntary guidance through clearinghouses.

Creates grants for research and extension on land practices that store carbon, reduce emissions, boost biodiversity, and reduce runoff.

Gives federal workers paid time off for family or medical reasons. Agencies may need to change staffing and payroll.

Asks the FCC to encourage one clear ratings system across TV and streaming. Parents would get clearer, specific content labels to judge what their children watch.

Expands tenant-based housing aid for youths leaving foster care, directs HUD–HHS coordination, and clarifies treatment of education voucher funds.

It thanks allied troops and urges fair, nonpolitical probes of wartime conduct. It is nonbinding and asks State and Defense to help ensure impartial reviews.

Incentivizes same-day paratransit through higher grant shares and sets federal minimum standards for paratransit software and data handling.

Phases out nonessential PFAS, bans detectable releases, requires reporting, funds research centers, and creates enforcement and citizen-suit authorities.

Supports older adults and people with disabilities before, during, and after disasters through grants, standards, training, and an emergency human services fund.

Competitive Labor grants to help colleges and career schools build VR/AR training programs and career pathways.

Sets a single Medicare payment for skin substitutes, adds billing codes and integrity checks, and directs FDA review to streamline tissue product approvals.

Excludes certain payments to clinical trial participants from taxable income and from income tests for federal and federally funded programs.

Creates temporary Medicaid coverage and simplified enrollment for people affected by declared disasters, with full federal funding for covered services and state supports.

Urges appointment of a U.S. Special Envoy to coordinate diplomacy, humanitarian aid, and accountability for the Sudan conflict and U.S. security interests.

Gives certain removed career federal employees hiring preference and five points for competitive service appointments for specified removals.

Shortens initial probationary periods for employees in competitive, excepted, and senior executive appointments, and changes an Internal Revenue Service provision.

Expands VA transportation grants for rural veterans, adds eligible groups, raises grant caps, and changes funding authorization.

Amends Medicare Part B text to change 2025 date references to 2028 for ground ambulance provisions.

Removes specified legal limits on defense items, security assistance, and certain sales related to Cyprus.