American Legislation

Recognizes August as Chicano/Chicana Heritage Month and encourages events honoring Mexican American contributions and history.

Raises debt caps for small-business debtors and Chapter 13 filers, expanding eligibility for streamlined reorganizations and affecting creditors, courts, and consumers seeking repayment plans.

Adds biotechnology to Title VIII, expanding safeguards and notifiable technology requirements for transfers, research, and partnerships.

a proposal to require a formal interagency agreement for sharing disaster relief data among housing, emergency management, and small business programs to improve coordination.

Expands the State Department's Regional Technology Officer program to recruit and train biotechnology experts, emphasizing biosecurity, ethics, and international rules for biotech diplomacy and overseas postings.

A one-year pilot program to train local and state officials to assess security risks at critical infrastructure and share voluntary guidance through clearinghouses.

Blocks posting and sale of detailed personal data of Members, families, and staff; requires removal on request within 72 hours, with limited exceptions.

Changes asylum rules, expands detention and parole limits, adds penalties for overstays, and increases authority to return migrants at land borders.

Renames Ocmulgee Mounds park, sets administration, tribal agreements, fishing rules, and trust land transfer conditions.

Creates grants for research and extension on land practices that store carbon, reduce emissions, boost biodiversity, and reduce runoff.

Gives federal workers paid time off for family or medical reasons. Agencies may need to change staffing and payroll.

Authorizes NSF awards to develop K-12 AI literacy curricula, teacher training, evaluation tools, and hands-on learning resources.

Asks the FCC to encourage one clear ratings system across TV and streaming. Parents would get clearer, specific content labels to judge what their children watch.

It thanks allied troops and urges fair, nonpolitical probes of wartime conduct. It is nonbinding and asks State and Defense to help ensure impartial reviews.

Incentivizes same-day paratransit through higher grant shares and sets federal minimum standards for paratransit software and data handling.

Amends 28 U.S.C. 546 to add wording and remove subsection (d), restoring executive oversight of U.S. Attorneys' offices.

Supports older adults and people with disabilities before, during, and after disasters through grants, standards, training, and an emergency human services fund.

Sets a single Medicare payment for skin substitutes, adds billing codes and integrity checks, and directs FDA review to streamline tissue product approvals.

Stops Federal Reserve banks from paying interest on deposits held for depository institutions.

Excludes certain payments to clinical trial participants from taxable income and from income tests for federal and federally funded programs.

Gives certain removed career federal employees hiring preference and five points for competitive service appointments for specified removals.

Shortens initial probationary periods for employees in competitive, excepted, and senior executive appointments, and changes an Internal Revenue Service provision.

Removes specified legal limits on defense items, security assistance, and certain sales related to Cyprus.