American Legislation

Sets gear standards, monitoring, research, and funding to reduce trawl bycatch and seafloor impacts in Alaska regions and limits some foreign seafood imports.

Expands the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District to include four new counties in Virginia and West Virginia, with funding, governance, and land-procurement provisions.

Updates the Fair Labor Standards Act to increase child labor penalties and offer employer guidance; specific provisions not publicly available.

Designates the Oak Park post office at 901 Lake Street as the "Detective Allan Reddins Post Office Building".

Require a human-controlled shutdown mechanism in all AI systems; legislative text and detailed provisions not publicly available.

Removes data centers from the list of businesses that qualify for opportunity zone tax incentives under the Internal Revenue Code.

Removes a specific tariff provision from the Tariff Act of 1930; details of the change are not included in the bill text provided.

Measures to standardize casualty counts, improve data sharing, and streamline verification of awards and benefits for personnel in operations.

Proposes to treat state-based student loan programs separately from private lenders, with borrower advisement requirements and rate parity to federal Direct PLUS loans.

Allows some curriculum costs to be paid with federal education funds, granting districts more flexibility in purchasing instructional materials and related training.

Legislation would restrict performance-based pay for the Postmaster General, mandate annual reporting on executive compensation, and expand oversight by the Postal Service Inspector General.

A proposal to pause new H-1B visas, raise wage floors, require attestations, and restrict staffing and status changes.

Medicare would include routine dental services with phased-in payments and protections for low-income beneficiaries.

The government will collect new job, pay, training, and time-use data to study how AI changes work. Businesses and people may be asked to answer new surveys.

Requires FERC rules for interconnecting large electricity users, assigns upgrade costs to those users, adds DOE data collection on data centers, and creates an AI testbed.

Requires verified age checks for AI chatbots, blocks minors, and imposes fines for harmful content.

Creates a DOE grant program to reduce power-line wildfires and strengthen the electric grid, with set-asides and matching rules.

Proposes raising the asset threshold for exam frequency, allowing more banks to be examined less often.

Changes employer rules, wages, postings, enforcement, audits, fees, and worker protections for H-1B and L-1 temporary worker programs.

This bill would end OPT, raise H-1B wage floors, limit third-party assignments, and prioritize higher-paid petitions.

Requires HUD to reclassify many housing activities under NEPA exemptions or categorical exclusions and report on review time and cost changes.

Provides HUD grants for localities to create pre-approved mixed-income housing designs to speed permitting and encourage affordable housing.

Removes cost-sharing for certain opioid treatments and recovery services in Medicare and many health plans.

Requires FEMA to submit recurring workforce plans covering staffing, skills, hiring, costs, disaster deployments, and workforce practices.