Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
KIDS Act
The bill would substantially tighten protections for children online—strengthening defaults, parental tools, content blocks, and federal oversight—but does so at the cost of significant compliance burdens, privacy and surveillance risks from age verification, possible preemption of stronger state rules, and increased legal uncertainty that could burden platforms and taxpayers.
Taxpayer Experience Improvement Act
The bill would make IRS service far more transparent and convenient—real‑time wait data, status updates, callbacks, online records, and multi‑account access—while imposing significant IT and operational costs and raising substantial privacy, security, and implementation‑risk tradeoffs that must be managed to avoid increased fraud or service disruption.
To expand the sharing of information with respect to suspected violations of intellectual property rights in trade.
The bill improves IP enforcement by allowing CBP to share marketplace-originated nonpublic data (with some procedural limits and notification) but risks broader disclosure of sensitive commercial information and expanded recipient access that could harm privacy and dampen cooperation from marketplace partners.
Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act
The bill strengthens privacy, limits targeted advertising, and increases oversight for children and teens—giving families greater control and potential policy improvements—at the cost of higher compliance and operational burdens for online services (especially small businesses), legal uncertainty for operators, and possible reductions in features or access for youth.
AI for Main Street Act
The bill offers SBA-led AI guidance, training, and a statutory definition to help small businesses adopt AI while forbidding new funding—trading potentially useful, clearer support for implementation risks from under-resourcing, uneven reach, and outdated advice.
To advance policy priorities that will break the gridlock.
The bill advances a mix of oversight, privacy, national‑security, veterans, and programmatic measures that preserve funding and expand protections, but does so at the cost of higher near‑term federal spending, added compliance and administrative burdens, and some limits or uncertainties around transparency and enforceability.
ADS for Mental Health Services Act
The bill boosts transparency about public‑service and mental‑health advertising on very large platforms—helping users and policymakers and potentially increasing outreach—while imposing compliance costs, leaving smaller platforms unregulated, and limiting the rule's duration with a five‑year sunset.
Improve the safety and security of Members of Congress, immediate family members of Members of Congress, and congressional staff.
The bill strengthens rapid privacy protections for members of Congress, their families, and other at-risk individuals by forcing quick removal and limiting data-broker activity, but it reduces some public access and transparency, raises compliance costs for private entities, and leaves implementation and scope ambiguities that could prompt legal disputes.
Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act
The bill gives mortgage applicants stronger control and greater privacy over prescreened credit reports and creates a government study of text-message trigger leads, but it raises compliance and operational costs for lenders and consumer-reporting agencies (which may be passed to consumers) and could narrow the number of prescreened mortgage offers available to some borrowers.
Informing Consumers about Smart Devices Act
The bill increases transparency and centralizes federal guidance to improve privacy protections for certain internet‑connected devices, but it exempts many common products, leaves gaps for existing devices, and imposes compliance costs and legal uncertainties for manufacturers that may be passed on to consumers.
TLDR Act
The bill increases transparency and accessibility of privacy terms (helping vulnerable users and enabling automated tools) at the cost of added compliance burdens, competitive pressure on smaller firms, and some regulatory and reputational risks.
Saving Privacy Act
The bill significantly strengthens financial privacy and individual remedies while curtailing centralized data collection and some regulatory powers — a trade-off that improves privacy and consumer choice but raises costs for banks, increases litigation risk, and may hinder law enforcement, market surveillance, and certain policy tools such as a Fed retail CBDC.
SAFE Lending Act of 2025
The bill strengthens consumer protections, privacy, and oversight for small‑dollar and prepaid accounts—benefiting low‑income borrowers and tribal communities—but increases compliance burdens and regulatory complexity that could raise costs or reduce access to small‑dollar credit for some consumers.
SCREEN Act
The bill strengthens protections that limit minors' exposure to sexual content and gives parents and regulators clearer tools, but it does so at the cost of increased collection of sensitive identity data, higher compliance burdens (especially for small platforms), risks of overblocking lawful adult speech, and potential legal and security tradeoffs.
Transparency in Bureaucratic Communications Act
The bill increases transparency and accountability of government interactions with major online platforms—including oversight of algorithmic requests and potential detection of improper influence—but at the cost of added administrative burdens, likely redactions for sensitive matters, and a risk that platforms will curb cooperation, which could impede safety and enforcement work.
Credit Freeze for Kids Act
The bill significantly improves and speeds up free credit-freeze access for vulnerable consumers and their representatives across bureaus, but it creates compliance costs for reporting agencies, includes strict deadlines that may cause some denials, and delays implementation for 18 months.
Presidential Audit and Tax Transparency Act
The bill increases transparency and enforcement of Presidents' and major‑party nominees' tax information to strengthen accountability and deterrence, but does so at the cost of greater privacy/security risks, potential harm to third parties, and increased administrative burdens funded by taxpayers.
Safeguarding Against Fabricated Exploitation Through Artificial Intelligence Act of 2026
The bill strengthens protections, technical standards, and civil remedies to reduce abusive synthetic content and protect victims, but it raises liability, compliance costs, and risks to small vendors and lawful research and expression.
AI AGENT Act of 2026
The bill creates enforceable federal privacy, interoperability, and agent-account rules that boost user control and competition, but does so at the cost of added compliance burdens, potential privacy-definition risks, regulatory complexity, and limits on state autonomy that may raise costs and reduce choices for smaller providers.
Health and Location Data Protection Act of 2026
The bill sharply strengthens privacy protections and enforcement for sensitive location and health-derived data (including inferred data and AI-handled signals) and funds the FTC to act, at the cost of imposing compliance burdens, litigation risk, and revenue/innovation impacts on businesses, researchers, and some information actors.
AI Labeling Act of 2026
The bill would make AI outputs more identifiable and enforce deceptive-practices rules—strengthening consumer protections and enabling enforcement—while imposing significant compliance, litigation, and privacy costs that could slow innovation and raise burdens for developers, platforms, and small businesses.
SAFE KIDS Act
The bill meaningfully raises protections, transparency, and oversight for children using AI chatbots — giving families and regulators stronger safety tools — but does so by imposing substantial compliance, enforcement, and legal costs and operational constraints that could reduce availability, functionality, and innovation while introducing new risks (misclassification, safety for abused children, and regulatory uncertainty).
Stop Spying Bosses Act
The bill substantially strengthens worker privacy, transparency, and enforcement against invasive workplace surveillance — but it does so at the cost of meaningful compliance burdens, heightened litigation risk, and operational and regulatory complexities for employers and governments.
American Innovation and Choice Online Act
The bill strengthens competition and protections for small businesses and speeds enforcement against very large platforms, but does so by imposing significant compliance, reporting, and litigation-related burdens that could raise costs, create legal uncertainty, and limit practical interoperability or innovation.
Workforce Transparency Act of 2026
The bill creates a national, privacy‑preserving framework to produce standardized, aggregated insights on how AI is changing jobs—helping workforce planning and research—while imposing compliance costs, leaving significant voluntary and exemption-driven gaps, and reducing some public oversight and enforcement leverage.
Strengthening Educator Workforce Data Act
The bill increases transparency and helps identify and address teacher supply and equity gaps for students and policymakers, but it imposes additional reporting burden, privacy risks for individual educators in small groups, and modest costs to implement.
CHATBOT Act
The bill significantly strengthens privacy, transparency, parental control, and enforcement to protect children from risky AI chatbot practices, but does so at the cost of substantial compliance complexity and expense for platforms and governments, potential reductions in functionality or teen autonomy, and some short‑term uncertainty while enforcement and evidence structures are implemented.
Workforce Data Enhancement Act
The bill invests a portion of WIOA funds to build connected education–workforce data systems that can improve training alignment, accountability, and individual credential portability, but it shifts money away from direct services and raises privacy and equity risks unless protections and supplemental funding are provided.
Improving IRS Customer Service Act
The bill significantly increases taxpayer-facing transparency and self-service tools—improving access to status, reducing hold time, and aiding vulnerable taxpayers—but does so at measurable cost and with heightened privacy, security, and implementation risks that will require funding and strong safeguards.
Privacy Protection Updates Act
The bill strengthens privacy protections and gives account-holders and courts more control over searches and cloud data, at the cost of greater litigation, operational burdens, and the risk that key evidence may be excluded, which could slow or complicate some investigations and prosecutions.
