American Legislation

Requires the intelligence office to prioritize serving state, local, tribal, territorial, and private-sector partners; report due on steps and metrics.

Creates regional boards to set best practices for electric demand forecasts. States must consider the recommendations, which may change utility planning and data rules.

Requires at least 15 days to notify Indian Health Service after emergency non-IHS care; elderly/disabled have existing rules.

Proposed changes to retirement, survivors, and disability benefits, cost-of-living adjustments, payroll and investment taxes, and Social Security Administration operations.

NIST will create guidance to measure data center electricity use and study data for better power demand forecasts. This could help local grid planning.

Requires EPA study, NIST consortium, and reporting for large AI data centers' environmental impacts.

Requires Commerce to make a plan to promote Wi‑Fi and unlicensed spectrum (5925–7125 MHz) internationally, with focus on WRC‑27 and countering foreign adversaries.

Protects fafsa data from immigration enforcement with narrow court order or voluntary consent exceptions.

Changes deadlines and allows electronic signing for retirement plan annual reports (Form 5500); applies to plan years ending after enactment.

Establishes a CDC campaign to raise awareness and increase screening access for type 1 diabetes, with grants and materials for communities and providers.

Reauthorizes $250 million per year (2027–2031) for ATIIP from the Highway Trust Fund, with funds available until spent and not transferable.

Adds IVIG for primary immunodeficiency to Medicare skilled nursing facility coverage effective Oct 1, 2026.

Provides FDA new authorities, grants, an advisory committee, recordkeeping for processed food recipes, and a public-private partnership for chemicals and packaging.

Establishes an interagency advisory commission to advance restorative justice and mental health supports in K–12 schools, with emphasis on students of color.

Requires hospitals to report ICU bed availability in real time and plan regional patient transfers as a Medicare participation condition.

Names the post office at 819 West Washington Boulevard for Jerry T. Hodges, Jr.

Creates a new independent United States Immigration Courts system with appellate, trial, and administrative divisions and transfers existing immigration adjudication functions.

Establishes an HHS research program and centers to study environmental causes, prevention, and progression of neurodegenerative diseases; funds research and data efforts.

Makes certain stainless or aluminum draft alcohol containers and tap equipment 15-year depreciable property for items placed in service after 2025.

Requires EPA to ban discharges of plastic pellets and include limits in water permits and performance standards within 60 days.

Limits assistance to Israel when funds support detention, home demolitions, or annexation in the occupied West Bank; adds reporting and oversight.

Creates a 6-year commission to investigate U.S. Indian boarding school policies, hold convenings, support survivors, and issue reports with recommendations.

Adds Taiwan to faster export approval rules and directs a study on expedited allied licensing for transfers of U.S.-origin defense items to Taiwan.

Proposes a DOJ task force to define anti-Sikh hate, educate enforcement and schools, and publish annual hate-incident reports.