American Legislation

Creates a U.S. blacklist of foreign fishing vessels, authorizes sanctions, and boosts enforcement and cooperation to stop illegal fishing and forced labor.

Creates a grant program and fund for sea turtle rescue, rehabilitation, and rapid response with authorized funding for 2025–2030.

Updates COPPA to cover ages 13–16, tighten consent, limit targeted ads, require deletion rights, and direct FTC and GAO reports.

Funds and coordinates expanded local weather and soil monitoring networks to improve flood, drought, and agricultural forecasts and support data sharing.

Requires FCC reports after disaster-system activation and classifies 911 telecommunicators as protective service workers.

Authorizes NASA to reimburse Chincoteague for removing and replacing drinking water wells on NASA‑administered land and requires a report to Congress.

Creates an FCC advisory council to recommend ways to improve communications network security, reliability, and interoperability, with public reporting and membership rules.

Requires a federal report on mobile network cybersecurity, vulnerabilities, encryption, and surveillance tools; excludes 5G protocols; due one year after enactment.

A Senate resolution recognizing the growth, revenue, and employment impact of women-owned businesses in the United States.

Prevents the FCC from acting against broadcasters because of their viewpoints, with limited criminal and incitement exceptions.

Requires seat belts, fire and crash-protection, driver training, studies, and grants for school buses.

Removes Section 230 immunity for some platforms hosting false election administration information and requires fast notice-and-removal.

Declares Congress should not impose new performance fees or charges on local radio stations or businesses playing broadcasted sound recordings.

Requires NTIA to estimate and require agencies to report spectrum value across 3 kHz–95 GHz on a multi-year schedule.

Requires the Commerce Assistant Secretary to audit federal spectrum uses and report to Congress within 18 months.

Senate resolution recognizing the Denver International Airport's 30th anniversary on February 28, 2025, introduced by Senators Bennet and Hickenlooper.

Requires commercial online platforms hosting pornographic visuals to verify user ages and block minors; FTC audits and GAO reports on effectiveness.

Prohibits federal funds from being used to support National Public Radio or its successor organizations; removes NPR mentions from parts of the Communications Act.

Updates FAA training, grants, equipment funding, incentives, mental-health training, and radar reporting to support controller recruitment and retention.

Creates regional university centers to coordinate wildland fire science, tools, open data, and training across seven U.S. regions.

Requires platforms to create 24/7 law-enforcement portals and report safety metrics to an FTC advisory committee.

Allows the Senate Commerce Committee to spend funds and hire staff from March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2027 with specified spending limits.