American Legislation

Creates two time-limited VA grant programs to fund neurorehabilitation research and trials for veterans with chronic mild TBI, including independent third-party oversight.

Supports a week of events and learning about space science, technology, and rocketry.

Expands which over-the-counter stocks may qualify as margin stocks.

Requires parents or adult students to give prior written consent before certain personal-information surveys are administered to students.

Prohibits courts and employers from garnishing wages for medical debts; effective six months after enactment.

Requires reasonable prices for biomedical products developed with federal research funding and public reporting of costs, tied to prices in other high-income countries.

Proposes ownership-based rules to curb foreign-influenced money in political activity through certifications, expanded PAC oversight, and coverage of ballot measures.

Medicare would reimburse eligible rural and critical access hospitals for anesthesiology services on a cost basis, with anesthesiologists agreeing not to bill Part B.

Provides financial help for eligible parents to buy infant formula or pasteurized donor milk through a three-year pilot program.

Directs VA to provide telehealth and mail-order medicines for veterans in the Freely Associated States, sets timelines, travel payments, and quarterly cost reports.

Allows accredited nonprofits to receive federal training grants and provide free training to small, rural agencies, reducing application barriers and extending access to critical professional development.

Requires location verification and other security features on certain advanced chips before export, plus reporting, assessments, and records to prevent diversion and tampering.

Exempts many state dental benefit rules from ERISA preemption 18 months after enactment, if they do not conflict with ERISA titles.

Expands HUD-VASH vouchers, prioritizes VA case management for vulnerable veterans, protects veterans who refuse services, and requires reports and a GAO study.

Allows grants to be used for pet emergency supplies and training and raises federal share for those activities to 90 percent.

House bill would treat PBMs as ERISA fiduciaries for group health plans and require new compensation disclosures.

establishes offices to coordinate antisemitism response, expands hate-crime data collection, requires colleges to designate Title VI coordinators and report, and increases nonprofit security grant funding.

Provides a 0.25 percentage-point FHA mortgage insurance discount for first-time buyers who complete housing financial counseling before applying or signing.

Creates competitive grants for school-based mental health programs serving children and adolescents, with training, partnerships, and evaluation requirements.

Changes to how veterans' benefit appeals are tracked, grouped, and reviewed by the Board, Court, and VA with new reports and studies.

Regulates certification and import of certain prescription drugs from certified foreign sellers with safety testing, labeling, and reporting.

Adds HIDTA fentanyl reporting, funding authorities, and DOJ temporary prosecutor reassignments to prioritize fentanyl cases.

Directs CMS and SSA to review and simplify caregiver interactions with Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and Social Security and report findings to Congress.

Would make the District of Columbia a state while keeping a smaller federal Capital.