All Bills - Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB463
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the earned income and child tax credits, and for other purposes.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB464
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for lifelong learning accounts, and for other purposes.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB465
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
<p><b>Old Glory Only Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the flying of any flag other than the U.S. flag over U.S. diplomatic and consular posts.</p>
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB466
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
<p><strong>Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits the Department of Energy (DOE) from using the Nuclear Waste Fund for certain activities related to radioactive waste disposal unless DOE has entered into a written agreement for a repository with (1) the governor of the state in which the proposed repository will be located, (2) affected local governments, (3) local governments contiguous to the affected local governments if spent nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive waste will be transported through them for disposal at the repository, and (4) affected Indian tribes.</p>
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB467
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Refer
2/20/25
<p><strong>Foreign Medical Program Modernization Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill expands eligibility for care under the Foreign Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) by removing certain eligibility requirements. The program authorizes the VA to furnish care and services to veterans abroad (i.e., outside any state) for the treatment of service-connected disabilities or as part of a Veteran Readiness and Employment rehabilitation program. The bill expands eligibility for care by removing the requirement that a veteran have a service-connected disability or be participating in a rehabilitation program.</p><p>The bill also requires the VA to update its payment system to allow for reimbursements through electronic fund transfer.</p><p>Under the bill, the VA must assess the feasibility and implications of contracting with an appropriate non-VA entity to build a network of non-VA entities to provide hospital care and medical services abroad under the Foreign Medical Program.</p>
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB468
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
<p><strong>Mel's Law</strong></p><p>This bill requires institutions of higher education (IHEs) that participate in federal student aid programs to establish policies for awarding posthumous degrees.</p><p>Specifically, the IHE must certify that it has a policy to award a posthumous degree to a deceased student who (1) was enrolled in a degree program at the IHE; (2) died prior to completing such program; and (3) at the time of death, was in academic standing consistent with the requirements for graduation from such program (as determined by the IHE).</p><p>The bill prohibits accrediting agencies from taking into consideration the number of posthumous degrees awarded to deceased students by the IHE. (Under current law, an IHE must be accredited by an accrediting agency to participate in federal student aid programs.)</p>
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB469
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
<p><strong>Semiquincentennial Congressional Time Capsule Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires the Architect of the Capitol to create a congressional time capsule in honor of the 250<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the Declaration of Independence to be buried on the west lawn of the Capitol on or before July 4, 2026. Congressional leadership will determine the contents of the time capsule, and the time capsule shall be sealed until July 4, 2276.</p>
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB47
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
<p><b>Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement Restoration Act or the VOICE Restoration Act</b></p> <p>This bill establishes the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement Office within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The office shall provide assistance to victims of crimes committed by non-U.S. nationals (<i>aliens</i> under federal law) who are present in the United States without lawful immigration status. </p>
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB470
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
To provide that the Secretary of Commerce shall not issue an interim or final rule or Secretarial Amendment that includes an area or bottom closure in the South Atlantic for species managed under the Fishery Management Plan for the Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region until the South Atlantic Great Red Snapper Count study is complete and the data related to that study is integrated into the stock assessment.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB471
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Engrossed
1/28/25
<p><strong>Fix Our Forests Act</strong></p><p>This bill establishes requirements for managing forests on federal land, including requirements concerning reducing wildfire threats, expediting the review of certain forest management projects, and implementing forest management projects and other activities.</p><p>Specifically, the bill (1) designates certain firesheds at high risk for wildfires as fireshed management areas; (2) directs the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Geological Survey to jointly establish an interagency Fireshed Center that is responsible for duties related to assessing and predicting fire, including maintaining a fireshed registry on a publicly accessible website that provides interactive geospatial data on individual firesheds; and (3) makes other requirements related to reducing wildfire.</p><p>Next, the bill expedites the review of certain forest management projects under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 and exempts certain activities from NEPA review. It also establishes intra-agency strike teams to accelerate the review and any interagency consultation processes under NEPA, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and the National Historic Preservation Act. It also limits consultation requirements concerning threatened and endangered species under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 and the Federal Land Management and Policy Act of 1976. Finally, it limits litigation involving fireshed management projects and limits remedies that courts may provide.</p><p>Additionally, the bill supports reducing community wildfire risks, carrying out forest restoration and stewardship activities (including watershed protection and restoration), conducting biochar demonstration projects, advancing technologies to address forest wildfires, and assisting wildland firefighters and their families.</p>
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB472
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
<p><strong>Restore Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability Act of 2025 or the Restore VA Accountability Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill modifies personnel action procedures regarding certain employees and executives of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). </p><p>The bill authorizes the VA to remove from civil service, demote, or suspend VA employees that are supervisors or managers if the VA determines by substantial evidence that the performance or misconduct of such individual warrants such action. This authority does not apply to certain appointees or individuals in their probationary or trial period.</p><p>Supervisors or managers who are subject to a removal, demotion, or suspension under this bill are entitled to (1) advance notice of the action and supporting evidence, (2) representation by an attorney or representative, and (3) grieve the action in accordance with an internal grievance process.</p><p>The bill also provides protections from removal, demotion, or suspension for supervisor or managers who are whistleblowers or are seeking corrective action for an alleged prohibited personnel practice such as discrimination.</p><p>The bill also modifies the procedures to remove, demote, or suspend VA employees or senior executives based on performance or misconduct, specifically by requiring the VA to determine by substantial evidence that the performance or misconduct of the individual warrants such removal, demotion, or suspension. Such procedures must apply retroactively, beginning on the date of enactment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017 (June 23, 2017).</p>
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB473
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
To restore in-person work at Federal agencies to not less than pre-pandemic levels, and for other purposes.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB474
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
<p><b>Lumbee Fairness Act</b></p> <p>This bill extends federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and makes its members eligible for the services and benefits provided to members of federally recognized tribes. </p> <p>Members of the tribe residing in Robeson, Cumberland, Hoke, and Scotland Counties in North Carolina are deemed to be within the delivery area for such services.</p> <p>The Department of the Interior and the Department of Health and Human Services must develop, in consultation with the tribe, a determination of needs to provide the services for which members of the tribe are eligible.</p> <p>Interior may take land into trust for the benefit of the tribe.</p> <p>Finally, North Carolina must exercise jurisdiction over all criminal offenses committed, and all civil actions that arise, on North Carolina lands owned by, or held in trust for, the Lumbee Tribe or any dependent Indian community of the tribe unless jurisdiction is transferred to the United States pursuant to an agreement between the tribe and the state.</p>
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB475
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
<p><strong>Sanction Russian Nuclear Safety Violators Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill requires the President to impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on foreign persons who endanger the integrity or safety of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine or who undermine Ukrainian operational control of the power plant. The bill provides certain exceptions to such sanctions (1) to comply with international obligations, (2) to provide humanitarian assistance, or (3) for those seeking to reestablish Ukrainian operational control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.</p>
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session
Us Congress House Bill HB476
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
<p><strong>No Russian Tunnel to Crimea Act</strong><br/> <br/>This bill requires the President to impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on foreign persons that knowingly participate in the construction, maintenance, or repair of a tunnel or bridge that connects the Russian mainland with the Crimean Peninsula.<br/> <br/>The bill provides exceptions to these sanctions in certain circumstances (such as providing humanitarian assistance or to comply with international obligations). The President may also waive such sanctions on the basis of U.S. national security interests.</p>