American Legislation

Updates FAA rules to encourage mental health care, improve medical review, and fund training, outreach, and examiners for pilots and air traffic controllers.

Designates the Baltimore museum as the National Museum of the Blind People's Movement and describes its role and collections.

Updates battlefield grant rules, extends authorization to 2035, adds funding, and requires studies of two historic war site groups.

Extends the authorization period for a competitive large-scale water recycling and reuse grant program from five years to ten years.

Directs Interior to study whether the Bay Area Ridge Trail should become a national scenic trail and report to Congress within one year.

Directs Interior to study moving Missouri River water to the Western Dakota Regional Water System and report cost-share recommendations.

Requires Interior to study expanding Lewis & Clark Regional Water System in IA, MN, and SD and report findings to Congress.

Authorizes an Interior Department study of a potential regional water supply for parts of four states, with up to $10,000,000 authorized.

Reauthorizes recycling grants, creates conveyance grants, funds restoration, and deauthorizes inactive reclamation projects.

Directs Interior to study selective water withdrawal at Glen Canyon Dam to evaluate hydropower and invasive species control; report due within 18 months.

This bill would add nurse practitioners and physician assistants as eligible providers under the workers’ compensation program, and require new rules within six months to implement the changes.

Sets a process for Puerto Rico to transition from its nutrition assistance block grant to SNAP.

Standardizes preseparation TAP presentations on VA benefits, requires VA approval with VSOs, and annual reports.

Expands liquidity tools and targeted loans for native CDFIs to boost tribal homeownership.

Makes federal mineral leasing rules apply to hardrock minerals on acquired lands.

Proposes federal penalties for transporting minors to obtain abortions and requires parental notice for out-of-state care.

Sets standards, inspections, reporting, and tenant protections for mold and water damage in military family housing.

Would change survivor benefit claims and provide limited payments for legal and medical expenses in certain delayed cases.

Would bar courts from considering acquitted conduct at sentencing, limiting what can raise a defendant’s sentence, with exceptions for mitigation and future judgments.

Proposes changes to veterans’ care, VA staffing, education assistance, and medical facilities.

Raises the tax-free home sale gain to $500,000 for singles and $1,000,000 for joint filers. The change applies to sales after the law is passed.

Proposes penalties for unlawful adoption practices that cross state lines, with exemptions for licensed agencies and certain guardians.

Requires ATF National Tracing Center to build searchable electronic firearms transaction databases, sets access rules, and requires regular audits.

covers fda-cleared blood-based tests for early detection of alzheimer's and related dementias under medicare starting in 2028