American Legislation

Requires Interior to grant a specific Blue Ridge Parkway right-of-way after required studies and environmental reviews.

Creates a confidential info-sharing hub, raises penalties, and funds pipeline safety programs. Nearby residents may see safer pipelines but some incident details stay private.

Requires the Energy Department to post safety rule changes and analyses within 24 hours for major nuclear sites. It also mandates a yearly report to Congress.

People held by CBP or ICE can name someone to be told before release. DHS must try twice to notify and provide language help.

This measure would limit employer collection of worker data, require disclosures and access, and create an enforcement division to protect privacy and prevent misuse.

Federal agencies will study how banks use advanced tech to find and stop fraud. They may run a voluntary pilot to help small banks get tools.

Changes how federal hydropower projects are licensed. It could speed approvals and affect river protections, tribes, and local recreation.

classification of a federal measure expanding amber alert use to missing youths considered high risk, with effects on enforcement, families, and alert-system operations.

Exempts low-producing oil and gas "marginal wells" from many Clean Air Act performance and monitoring requirements.

A federal report to reduce mental-health stigma among officers and protect confidentiality of services through best practices and consultations.

Changes carrier and broker registration, targets freight fraud and theft, and strengthens driver and training rules.

Adds synthetic 7-hydroxymitragynine to Schedule I, excluding the compound when naturally in kratom (Mitragyna speciosa).

Changes Medicare hospice enrollment, oversight, payments, transparency, and clinical requirements to strengthen hospice care integrity.

More home caregivers would get federal minimum wage and overtime pay. Families who hire care may pay higher wages or change schedules.

Refunds VA housing loan fees for veterans with pending disability claims.

Creates an NIH institute to develop medicines, control patents, encourage public manufacturing, and require data transparency.

Authorizes and funds grants for passenger ferries, terminals, fleet modernization, rural services, and shipyard job creation, with specific yearly funding and codification of programs.

Groups that spend over $10,000 must name big donors and owners. Many political ads must show who paid or link to a top funders list.

A proposed framework to restrict U.S.-origin weapons to Israel for use in the West Bank or Gaza, with end-use monitoring, quarterly reports, and waivers under certain conditions.

Requires a study of chameleon freight carriers and an automated screening tool to flag suspicious DOT registration applications, with appeals and inspector general review.

Allows certain business credit carryforwards to be transferred for taxpayers in qualifying disaster areas, limited to eligible expenditures and timing rules.

Require student IDs to list suicide and crisis hotlines and require agencies without IDs to publish contacts online.

Allows USDA to award three-year agriculture education grants to colleges serving Native students. If funded, schools could offer more hands-on farming and food-system training.

Allows certain mental-health controlled prescriptions by telehealth, sets telehealth entity rules, addresses licensure and pharmacist validation.