All Bills - Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB115
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
<p><strong>No Free Rent for Freeloaders Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill directs the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), on an annual basis, to</p><ul><li>monitor the extent of noncompliance of public-housing tenants with certain community service and economic self-sufficiency requirements,</li><li>determine the aggregate amount provided in federal subsidies for all public-housing dwelling units that were occupied by noncompliant tenants, and</li><li>publish this amount in the Federal Register.</li></ul><p>In each fiscal year, the amount as determined and published for the preceding fiscal year must be rescinded from funds made available for HUD's Management and Administration account.</p>
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB1150
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to exclude certain populations of the lake sturgeon from the authority of such Act.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB1151
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat certain postsecondary credentialing expenses as qualified higher education expenses for purposes of 529 accounts.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB1152
Introduced
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Engrossed
4/1/25
<p><strong>Electronic Filing and Payment Fairness Act </strong></p><p>This bill provides that a federal tax document or payment that is electronically submitted to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) shall be considered delivered to the IRS on the date such document or payment is sent. Further, the bill requires the IRS to issue guidance on electronically submitted federal tax documents and payments no later than December 31, 2025.</p><p>Under current law, a federal tax document or payment that is sent by mail is considered delivered to the IRS on the date that such document or payment is postmarked and is considered timely if the postmark date is on or before the due date of such document or payment. (This is known as the mailbox rule.)</p><p>Further, under current law, the IRS is authorized to provide guidance on electronically submitted federal tax documents but not payments. In accordance with such authority, IRS guidance provides that the date that an authorized electronic return transmitter receives the transmission of an electronically filed document on its host system is the electronic postmark date.</p><p>The bill expands the mailbox rule to include all electronically submitted federal tax documents and payments and specifically requires the IRS to provide guidance on electronically submitted payments.</p>
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB1153
Introduced
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to support rural residency training funding that is equitable for all States, and for other purposes.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB1154
Introduced
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue guidance with respect to space systems, services, and technology as critical infrastructure, and for other purposes.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB1155
Introduced
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Engrossed
4/1/25
<p><strong>Recovery of Stolen Checks Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to establish procedures that allow an eligible taxpayer to elect to receive by direct deposit a replacement of a federal tax refund amount that was originally issued as a paper check and was lost or stolen. (Currently, taxpayers eligible to receive a replacement of a lost or stolen federal tax refund check are generally issued another paper check.)</p>
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB1156
Introduced
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Engrossed
3/12/25
<p><strong>Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act</strong></p><p>This bill extends from 5 to 10 years the statute of limitations for federal criminal charges or civil enforcement actions for fraud related to several unemployment insurance programs that were established during the COVID-19 pandemic. </p><p>The extension applies to Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation, and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation. The bill extends the statute of limitations for (1) criminal charges related to fraud, including aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit fraud; and (2) civil actions involving false claims. However, the bill does not apply to a criminal prosecution or civil enforcement action if the applicable statute of limitations expired before the date of the bill's enactment.</p><p>Additionally, the bill rescinds specified unobligated funds that were provided in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to the Department of Labor for anti-fraud and program integrity activities. </p>
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB1157
Introduced
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
To allow individuals to elect to receive contributions to a health savings account in lieu of reduced cost-sharing under health insurance obtained through a health insurance Exchange.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB1158
Introduced
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
To provide enhanced authority for the President to enter into agreements with the Government of Ukraine to lend or lease defense articles to that Government to protect civilian populations in Ukraine from Russian military invasion, and for other purposes.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB1159
Introduced
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
<p><strong>Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act</strong></p><p>This bill includes Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees in the Public Safety Officers' Benefits (PSOB) program under certain conditions. Specifically, the bill extends PSOB program death and disability benefits to TSA employees performing official duties related to protecting the nation's transportation systems.</p><p>As background, the PSOB program provides cash benefits to federal, state, and local law enforcement officers; firefighters; employees of emergency management agencies; and members of emergency medical services agencies who are killed or permanently and totally disabled as the result of personal injuries sustained in the line of duty. PSOB death benefits are payable to the eligible spouse and children of a public safety officer. Further, the Public Safety Officers’ Educational Assistance program, a component of the PSOB program, provides higher-education assistance to the children and spouses of public safety officers who are eligible for PSOB death or disability benefits. </p>
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB116
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
<p><strong> Stopping Border Surges Act </strong></p><p>This bill modifies immigration law provisions relating to unaccompanied alien minors and to asylum seekers.</p><p>The bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to repatriate certain unaccompanied, inadmissible alien children, generally those not at risk of being trafficking victims nor having a fear of persecution. Currently, only inadmissible unaccompanied aliens from neighboring countries are subject to repatriation, and DHS has discretion whether to repatriate.</p><p>When the Department of Health and Human Services releases an unaccompanied child to an individual, it shall provide DHS with certain information about that individual, including Social Security number and immigration status.</p><p>The bill requires a stricter standard to find a credible fear of persecution and imposes additional rules on credible fear interviews.</p><p>If an alien is granted asylum because of fear of persecution in a country, the alien shall be deemed to have renounced asylum status by returning to that country, if there has been no change in the country's conditions.</p><p>The bill also (1) expands the definition of what constitutes a frivolous asylum application, (2) imposes additional limitations on eligibility for asylum, (3) shortens the deadline for applying for asylum, and (4) extends the time period an alien seeking asylum must wait before receiving employment authorization.</p><p>Any individual who knowingly and willfully makes materially false statements or uses fraudulent documents in asylum-related proceedings shall be fined or imprisoned up to 10 years, or both.</p>
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB1160
Introduced
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the treatment of locum tenens physicians and advanced care practitioners as independent contractors to help alleviate physician shortages, including in underserved areas.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB1161
Introduced
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
<p><strong>Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill authorizes the President to enter into negotiations with the government of Denmark to purchase or otherwise acquire Greenland. The bill also renames Greenland as Red, White, and Blueland.</p><p></p>
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB1162
Introduced
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
<p><b>Medicaid Primary Care Improvement Act</b></p><p>This bill specifies that state Medicaid programs are authorized to provide primary care services through direct primary care arrangements (i.e., arrangements in which primary care providers receive a fixed periodic fee for their services).</p> <p>The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must (1) convene at least one virtual stakeholder meeting and issue related guidance on how state Medicaid programs may implement direct primary care arrangements, and (2) report on the extent to which state Medicaid programs contract with independent providers and on the quality and cost of care under direct primary care arrangements that are offered through Medicaid managed care organizations.</p>