United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Improving Care for Vulnerable Older Citizens and People with Disabilities through Workforce Advancement Act of 2020 This bill requires the Health Resources and Services Administration to award demonstration project grants to partnerships of health care providers, long-term care facilities, and other organizations to test models of care coordination and service delivery for older individuals, and individuals with disabilities, who have chronic illnesses or are at risk of institutional placement.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Blockchain Technology Coordination Act of 2020 This bill establishes a National Blockchain Technology Coordination Office within the Department of Commerce.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Federal Bail Reform Act of 2020 This bill makes various changes to requirements concerning release and detention orders in federal courts to constrain the detention of individuals who are awaiting trial, sentencing, or an appeal.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 2025
Refurbishing the Pillars of American Exceptionalism Act of 2020 This bill addresses various issues including immigration, health care, firearms, abortion, and taxes. Among other things, this bill limits who may receive citizenship by virtue of being born in the United States; repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; prohibits providing an abortion if the fetus has a detectable heartbeat, with some exceptions; removes from federal jurisdiction any case seeking the review of any law or regulation that limits or regulates abortions; repeals certain nutritional standards for national school lunch and school breakfast programs; prohibits the state or local regulation of firearm silencers; makes English the official language of the United States and authorizes a person injured by a violation of this provision to sue; caps noneconomic damages at $250,000 in any health care lawsuit; repeals federal income taxes, payroll taxes, and estate taxes; and establishes a national sales tax.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
This bill requires the National Institutes of Health to enter an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to study addiction to or psychological dependence on social media applications.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
No Sanctuary for Criminals Act This bill prohibits federal, state, or local government entities from having policies that restrict any government entity from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement activities. A state or local government entity that violates this provision shall be ineligible for certain Department of Justice or Department of Homeland Security grants.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 2025
This bill requires each federal agency to define service animal and assistance animal consistent with the definitions of such terms in a federal regulation titled Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations and in Commercial Facilities .
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Climate Protection and Sustainable Communities Act This bill requires a financial regulator to assess and rate the record of a financial institution in meeting the environmentally sustainable investment needs of its community.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
This bill directs the Department of the Interior, in evaluating a bid for an oil or gas lease, to award a 10% credit to the value of a bid if the bidder commits to enter into a project labor agreement with respect to any employees who will be engaged in building or construction in the offshore wind energy development within the leased track.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
This bill specifies that states, state agencies, and state officials acting in their official capacities are civilly liable for deprivations of rights.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
State Broadband Office Innovation Pilot Act This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to establish a pilot program that provides grants to eligible state broadband offices for new projects that increase broadband connectivity, accelerate broadband deployment, or establish affordable broadband access to underserved populations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 January 2022
This bill increases the amounts of the 2020 recovery rebate, repeals the immunity from liability of a provider or user of an interactive computer service for screening and blocking offensive content, and addresses the administration of federal elections. The bill increases the amount of the 2020 recovery rebate for individual taxpayers to $2,000 ($4,000 for joint returns). The amount of such rebate is phased out for taxpayers whose adjusted gross income exceeds $75,000 ($150,000 for joint returns). A recovery rebate is a stimulus payment for taxpayers and their dependents who are adversely affected by COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). This bill also removes the immunity from liability of a provider or user of an interactive computer service (e.g., a social media company) for screening and blocking offensive content on its platform. Regarding the conduct of federal elections, the bill establishes a bipartisan advisory committee within the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to study the integrity and administration of the November 2020 general election. Under the bill, each chief state election official must disclose to the EAC the identity of any foreign national known by that official to have (1) physically handled either ballots used in an election for federal office or voting machines, (2) had unmonitored access to a storage facility or centralized voting-tabulation location used to support an election, or (3) had unmonitored access to election-related information or communications technology. It also requires the official to make the disclosure within 30 days of becoming aware of such activity.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 2025
Caring for Americans with Supplemental Help Act of 2020 or the CASH Act of 2020 This bill increases the 2020 recovery rebate from $1,200 to $2,000 for each individual taxpayer and extends such rebate to taxpayer dependents.
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 2025
Crisis Housing Act of 2020 This bill provides funding to public housing agencies for rental assistance for certain families located in an area that either (1) meets specified unemployment levels, or (2) is subject to a major disaster declaration. The bill designates the funding as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 2025
Clean Energy Future Through Innovation Act of 2020 This bill establishes a variety of incentives and programs to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector, including incentives and programs to (1) develop low- and zero-carbon power technologies (e.g., technologies to capture, use, and store carbon from coal and natural gas); (2) support certain renewable energy, energy-efficiency, energy storage, and clean electricity technologies; and (3) support nuclear energy.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
No Congressional Gun Loophole Act This bill prohibits the Capitol Police Board from allowing Members of Congress or their staff to carry firearms on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol or in its buildings. Members and their staff may store firearms in their cars in Capitol complex garages if their possession complies with the firearms laws of the District of Columbia and the firearms are locked with gun locks while on the complex. Current board regulations allow Members of Congress to keep firearms in their offices; the regulations also allow Members and their staff to transport unloaded and securely wrapped firearms within the Capitol grounds. Firearms are prohibited inside the chambers of the Senate and the House of Representatives, as well as in adjacent lobbies and cloakrooms, the galleries, the Marble Room of the Senate, and the Rayburn Room of the House, unless approved by the Sergeants at Arms for security purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 2025
Preventing a Patronage System Act or the PPS Act This bill prohibits executive agency positions in the competitive service from being placed in the excepted service, unless such positions are placed in Schedules A through E as in effect on September 30, 2020. The bill also prohibits positions in the excepted service from being placed in any schedule other than the aforementioned schedules. On October 21, 2020, the President issued an executive order titled Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service . The order places executive agency positions that are of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character, and that are not normally subject to change as a result of a presidential transition, under a new schedule in the excepted service (Schedule F) instead of the competitive service. The order also requires any such positions in the excepted service to be reclassified to Schedule F.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Securing America's Critical Minerals Supply Act This bill requires the Department of Energy to conduct ongoing assessments of and secure any energy resource that (1) is essential to the energy sector and energy systems of the United States, and (2) has a supply chain which is vulnerable to disruption.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2025
Caring for Americans with Supplemental Help Act of 2020 or the CASH Act of 2020 This bill amends the COVID-related Tax Relief Act of 2020 to increase the recovery rebate amount for individual taxpayers to $2,000 ($4,000 for joint return filers).
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 2025
This bill modifies the oath of office for elected and appointed positions in the federal civil service and uniformed services. Specifically, the bill modifies the oath to include a pledge to place the obligation to support and defend the Constitution above an obligation to any individual, political party, or faction.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Cancer Centers Assistance for Renovations and Expansion Act of 2020 This bill temporarily establishes and provides funds for a cancer center construction grant program for capital costs associated with research, prevention, or patient care infrastructure improvements.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 This bill repeals the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2021. It also provides continuing FY2021 appropriations through January 11, 2021, for the programs and activities that are funded in the act. The continuing appropriations would fund most of these programs and activities at the FY2020 levels.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
This bill provides for additional 2020 recovery rebates (i.e., refundable tax credits) for individual taxpayers whose gross income does not exceed $75,000 ($150,000 for joint return filers). The amount of such rebates are $2,000 for each individual taxpayer ($4,000 for joint return filers) and $600 for each qualifying child of the taxpayer. The Internal Revenue Service may determine eligibility for the recovery rebate based on a taxpayer's 2019 tax return or other information if the taxpayer has not filed a return for 2019. To be eligible for a recovery rebate, a taxpayer must provide a valid identification number (i.e., a Social Security account number). If only one spouse filing a joint return provides a valid identification number, the amount of the recovery rebate is reduced to $2,000. The bill provides a limited exemption from garnishment and other offsets for recovery rebates.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 2025
National Emergencies Reform Act This bill revises provisions of the National Emergencies Act relating to the termination of presidentially-declared national emergencies. Specifically, the bill provides that any national emergency declared by the President shall terminate if (1) no joint resolution has been enacted affirming the declaration of such emergency before the expiration of the 48-hour period beginning on the first day after such emergency is declared and on which both houses of Congress are in session, (2) a joint resolution is enacted terminating the emergency, or (3) the President issues a proclamation terminating the emergency. The date on which a presidentially-declared emergency terminates is 60 days after the President transmits to Congress the proclamation declaring the emergency or Congress affirms a previous renewal unless the President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to Congress an executive order renewing the emergency, and a joint resolution is enacted affirming the renewal of the declaration. A national emergency declared before the enactment of this bill shall be unaffected by the amendments made by this bill except that such emergencies shall terminate 60 days after enactment unless renewed.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Save our Servers Act This bill prohibits the Department of Commerce from issuing specified grants to a state or local government that is restricting or prohibiting indoor or outdoor dining at restaurants.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Practical Alternatives to Detention Act This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to fully implement and use alternatives to detention programs for aliens who are not subject to mandatory detention. For such alternatives to detention programs, DHS shall prioritize certain aliens, such as those who are pregnant or have serious medical needs.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Online Terrorism Prevention Act This bill requires each social media company to establish an office to identify and remove violent or extremist content associated with or distributed by a terrorist organization. In addition, the bill requires enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission and authorizes enforcement by state attorneys general and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A social media company is any person with annual revenues in excess of $10 million generated from owning, managing, or operating a website or internet medium that allows a person to establish an account or create a profile to create, share, and view user-generated content.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Citizen Justice Restoration Act of 2020 This bill prohibits decisions to search, seize, or scrutinize an individual that discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, or sex. Specifically, the bill prohibits a person acting under color of law from basing a decision to search, seize, or scrutinize an individual on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, or sex, including sexual orientation, and makes evidence obtained as a result of such a search or seizure inadmissible, with exceptions; requires an application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a state court to be granted with respect to any federal claim that was adjudicated on the merits in state court proceedings, which adjudication was in error; makes a new rule of constitutional law announced by the U.S. Supreme Court, a U.S. Court of Appeals, or a U.S. District Court retroactive to cases on collateral review; and requires an ambiguity in a statute that provides protection against discrimination on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, or sex to be construed in the manner that will provide the greatest protection against such discrimination. The bill further creates a private right of action and provides for the award of a bounty for citizen lawsuits under specified circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
Military Domestic Violence Prevention Act This bill requires the Department of Defense to take various actions and implement programs related to the prevention of and response to domestic violence and child abuse and neglect among military families, including by ensuring information sharing among the Armed Forces about incidents reported to the Family Advocacy Programs of the Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 2025
Stopping Unfair Collateral Consequences from Ending Student Success Act or the SUCCESS Act This bill repeals a provision that makes students convicted of drug-related offenses ineligible for federal student aid and prohibits the Department of Education from asking about drug-related convictions on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 2025
Expanding COVID-19 Testing Capacity Act of 2020 This bill expands access to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) diagnostic testing by establishing various programs and grants to facilitate the manufacture and provision of tests.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Volunteers Improving Social Isolation and loneliness Together Act of 2020 or the VISIT Act of 2020 This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to implement a pilot program in two tiers to assess the feasibility and advisability of assisting veterans, members of the Armed Forces or National Guard, or family members of such individuals who are at risk of social isolation and loneliness through the funding of specified national service programs (VISIT pay for results projects).
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
This bill requires health insurers to report information about their plans, including costs related to prescription drugs, spending on health care services, and average monthly premiums.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Big Oil Bailout Prevention Trust Fund Act of 2020 This bill eliminates (1) the $1 billion per incident limitation on expenditures from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund for cleanup of oil spills, (2) the $500 million per incident limitation on expenditures from the trust fund for natural resource damage assessments and claims in connection with oil spills, and (3) the limitation on the borrowing authority of the trust fund. The bill also directs the President to promulgate regulations to allow advance payments from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to states and localities to prepare for and mitigate substantial threats from the discharge of oil.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
This bill revises the applicable period during which a financial institution may suspend loan modification requirements as applied to a troubled debt restructuring. Currently, this period ends on the earliest of December 31, 2020, or the date that is 60 days after the termination of the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) national emergency. The bill revises this period to end on the earliest of January 1, 2022, or the date that is 60 days after the termination of the COVID-19 national emergency.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Big Oil Bailout Prevention Unlimited Liability Act of 2020 This bill revises requirements governing the liability of parties that are responsible for oil discharges from offshore facilities into navigable waters or adjoining shorelines. Under current law, responsible parties are liable for the total of all removal costs plus $75 million. The bill removes the cap of $75 million on liability and makes the responsible parties liable for all covered damages. Covered damages includes damages for (1) loss of natural resources, property, revenue, or profits; or (2) costs of providing increased public services during or after removal activities, such as fire protection.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Protect Asylum Seekers Act This bill limits the separation of alien families and provides protections for asylum seekers. Certain civil and criminal penalties related to improper entry into the United States shall not apply if, after entering the United States, an alien without delay communicates to an immigration or asylum officer a non-fraudulent (1) desire to seek asylum, or (2) fear of persecution. The Departments of Homeland Security (DHS), Justice, and Health and Human Services shall not separate a child from a parent or legal guardian unless a state court terminates the parent or legal guardian's rights; a state child welfare agency or court determines it is in the child's best interests to be removed; or the child is determined to be a trafficking victim or at risk of becoming one, the accompanying adult is most likely not the parent or legal guardian, or the child is in danger of abuse or neglect. An agency may not separate a child from a parent or legal guardian solely to deter migration into the United States or to promote compliance with immigration laws. DHS shall develop (1) training related to the bill's family separation requirements, and (2) guidance for how parents and legal guardians may locate a separated child. DHS shall provide parents and legal guardians periodic status updates about a separated child. The Government Accountability Office shall report to Congress on the criminal prosecution of asylum seekers.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Children's Hospital Protection Act This bill specifically bases the methodology for determining limitations on Medicaid disproportionate-share hospital payments on the costs and payments for individuals for whom Medicaid is the primary payer.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act This bill provides authority for the Federal Trade Commission to seek civil penalties from entities engaging in deceptive trade practices that are associated with the treatment, cure, prevention, mitigation, or diagnosis of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) for the duration of such public health emergency.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
National Healthcare Acquired Infection and Medical Error Transparency Act This bill establishes a program to collect confidential reports from health care providers that detail instances of health care-acquired infections and medical errors. It also establishes the Office of Patient Safety and Health Care Quality within the Department of Health and Human Services to administer the program.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act This bill provides authority for the Federal Trade Commission to seek civil penalties from entities engaging in deceptive trade practices that are associated with the treatment, cure, prevention, mitigation, or diagnosis of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) for the duration of such public health emergency.
United States · United States Congress · 10 January 2026
Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act This bill establishes various entities and procedures to address the wrongful detainment of U.S. nationals abroad. The President shall appoint a Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs. The envoy's duties shall include leading diplomatic engagement on U.S. hostage policy and coordinating diplomatic engagements in support of hostage recovery efforts. The President shall establish an interagency Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell, which shall assess and track all hostage cases of U.S. nationals and coordinate agency efforts to safely recover hostages. The President shall also establish the Hostage Recovery Group, which shall make recommendations regarding hostage recovery options and coordinate the development and implementation of U.S. hostage recovery policies. The President is authorized to impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions against any foreign person responsible for or complicit in the unlawful or wrongful detention of a U.S. national abroad. The Department of State shall review cases where U.S. nationals are detained abroad and refer instances of wrongful or unlawful detainment to the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 2025
Set Testing and Objectives Plan for COVID-19 Act or the STOP COVID-19 Act This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a temporary grant program for local governments that have health departments to carry out testing, contact tracing, and other activities to reduce the spread of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). HHS may use unobligated funds from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund for these grants.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 2025
Build America's Libraries Act This bill establishes and provides funds through FY2023 for the Build America's Libraries Fund, from which the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) must allocate funding to states and, through them, need-based grants to libraries to make long-term improvements to library facilities. The IMLS must also award grants to Indian tribes and organizations that primarily serve and represent Native Hawaiians. Specifically, the bill requires each state that receives an allocation, and each library that receives a grant, to carry out certain activities to improve library facilities. These activities include constructing and renovating library facilities, investing in infrastructure projects to improve internet access and connectivity, improving indoor air quality, and making facilities accessible to individuals with disabilities. The bill also outlines administrative and oversight provisions, including by requiring library projects to use iron and steel products that are produced in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 2025
Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act This bill addresses issues of corruption and public integrity, campaign reform, and ethics in government. Specifically, the bill prohibits members of Congress, cabinet secretaries, federal judges, and other senior government officials from owning and trading individual stock or serving on corporate boards; institutes a lifetime ban on lobbying by former members of Congress, Presidents, and agency heads; requires disclosure of funding or editorial conflicts of interest in rulemaking and establishes an Office of the Public Advocate; requires the Supreme Court to follow the ethics rules for all other federal judges and encourages diversity on the federal bench; creates a new, independent anti-corruption agency dedicated to enforcing federal ethics laws; requires elected officials and candidates for federal office to disclose more financial and tax information and requires increased disclosure of corporate money behind lobbying; and makes changes to the Federal Election Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Vet Center Improvement Act of 2020 This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to evaluate productivity expectations for readjustment counselors of Vet Centers, including by obtaining feedback from counselors that must be audited annually for five years by the Government Accountability Office. The VA must also (1) develop and implement a staffing model for Vet Centers, (2) standardize descriptions of position responsibilities at Vet Centers, and (3) award grants to address food insecurity among veterans and family members of veterans who receive services through Vet Centers or other VA facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
This bill establishes an American Nuclear Leadership Commission within the Department of Energy. The commission must study the current status and the future of the civilian nuclear power industry of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Personal Protective Equipment for Home Health Care Workers Act of 2020 This bill requires home health agencies to provide personal protective equipment to their workers, and to regularly report data regarding worker deaths, during the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) as a condition of federal payment under Medicare, Medicaid, and specified COVID-19 relief funds.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Intelligence Community Congressional Whistleblowing Improvement Act This bill expands protections for whistleblowers who are employed by a covered agency in the intelligence community (or by a contractor of such an agency) to apply to protected disclosures made to any Member of Congress. Currently, when a protected disclosure is made to Congress, whistleblower protections generally apply only if the disclosure was made to a congressional intelligence committee or to a member of such a committee.