American Legislation

Requires VA to detect and report suspected fraud in disability benefit questionnaire submissions, audit forms, notify submitters, enable IG investigations, and send annual reports to veterans committees.

Designates May as a month to raise awareness about Lyme and other tick-borne diseases and to encourage prevention, detection, and improved responses.

Raises death gratuities and funeral benefits for civil servants killed on duty; indexes amounts and allows emergency funding.

Moves two Harpers Ferry parcels between the Park Service and Customs and Border Protection; updates park boundaries, requires a survey, and allows reversion.

Requires cameras, visible ID, de-escalation training, local notice, and reporting for federal immigration enforcement.

Requires full-time board-certified OB-GYNs at federal prisons holding women and sets care, consent, referral, and reporting rules.

Prohibits DHS, including ICE, from creating or operating immigrant detention or holding facilities in Washington County and allows local parties to sue to enforce the ban.

Directs CBP to speed up bicycle and pedestrian crossings at the Gordie Howe International Bridge; requires GAO report.

Lets the Farm Credit Administration extend exams for low-risk institutions to up to 24 months, effective Oct 1, 2026.

Cancels all registrations and bans sale and use of the pesticide diquat; revokes food tolerances and prohibits reregistration.

Requires DOT and USDA inspections of animal shipments and bans interstate movement of livestock considered 'unfit to travel,' with a veterinary care exception.

Requires Agriculture and Census coordination to run an annual food security survey, publish findings, and fund the Census supplement.

Adds accessory dwelling units as appurtenances and raises a numeric size limit from 2,500 to 10,000 in a Farm Credit Act provision.

Requires a federal AI action plan and 5-year moratorium on state AI restrictions that affect interstate commerce; includes yearly updates and small-business measures.

Rescinds border enforcement funds and creates tax credits to expand homebuying, construction, conversions, and renter relief.

Ties certain public safety grant eligibility to stricter pretrial rules and annual reporting by states and agencies.

Authorizes negotiation with Canada for joint air, land, and maritime operations; allows stationing of law enforcement personnel.

Requires FEMA to mitigate cybersecurity risks and report progress to Congress within one year, in consultation with CISA.

Requires federal agencies to define sex as biological male or female, remove gender-identity policies, limit related funding, and set rules for IDs, prisons, and agency forms.