Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
To modernize Federal firearms laws to account for advancements in technology and less-than-lethal weapons, and for other purposes.
The bill expands market access and regulatory clarity for less-than-lethal projectile devices—lowering costs and easing law-enforcement use—but reduces federal revenue and creates safety, oversight, and civil-liberties risks by loosening firearms-related safeguards.
End Tobacco Loopholes Act
The bill raises and expands tobacco/nicotine excise taxes to improve public health and raise federal revenue, while imposing higher costs on users (particularly low‑income consumers), added burdens on small retailers, and greater regulatory complexity for industry and government.
Chemical Tax Repeal Act
The bill reduces taxes and compliance burdens for taxpayers and the IRS but does so at the cost of lost federal revenue that may raise deficits or force cuts or replacements for programs previously financed by those excise taxes.
Maritime Fuel Tax Parity Act
The bill gives targeted fuel tax relief to certain Atlantic/Pacific vessel operators to lower their operating and shipping costs, at the expense of reduced federal revenue and a potentially unequal tax treatment among fuel users.
Fair SHARE Act of 2025
The bill establishes a new federal tax on EVs and batteries to create a steady funding stream for highways and transit, trading more reliable infrastructure funding for higher EV prices, potential slower EV adoption, disproportionate burdens on lower-income buyers, and added business compliance costs.
Stock Buyback Accountability Act of 2026
The bill shifts incentives away from stock buybacks toward retained earnings and reduced tax preferences for certain stock‑based pay—potentially boosting long‑term investment and fairness—but raises costs for repurchasing firms, may prompt avoidance and compliance burdens, and creates transitional fairness issues.
Modern, Clean, and Safe Trucks Act of 2026
The bill cuts purchase costs for heavy-truck buyers and encourages cleaner vehicle turnover, but eliminates a dedicated federal excise revenue stream, creating significant fiscal pressure and transitional economic and environmental costs to manage.
Taxing Buybacks from Big Oil Windfalls Act
The bill temporarily taxes or limits buybacks by large oil and gas firms tied to a gasoline-price trigger to raise federal revenue and encourage cash retention for investment or lower prices, but it risks higher consumer fuel costs, reduced returns for oil‑sector shareholders, and extra administrative burdens.
Gas Tax Suspension Act
The bill provides short-term fuel-cost relief for drivers and businesses while preserving road and cleanup funding through general-fund transfers, shifting costs to taxpayers and creating administrative and budgeting uncertainty.
KOMBUCHA
The bill reduces tax and regulatory burdens for small kombucha producers (and may lower prices for consumers) in exchange for modest federal revenue loss and risks of market reclassification and implementation confusion.
Supporting Energy and Economic Development (SEED) Act
The bill sustains tax incentives and coordinates credits to keep demand for biodiesel and renewable diesel (supporting cleaner fuels and preventing double-dipping), but does so at the cost of reduced federal revenue and added compliance and transition uncertainty for fuel suppliers.
Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act
The bill redirects windfall oil profits into a transparent trust to fund quarterly refundable gasoline relief for low- and middle-income households, trading clearer, targeted consumer relief and revenue for increased tax complexity, administrative costs, potential exclusions, and the risk that taxes are passed through into higher fuel prices or that fund volatility reduces or delays payments.
Gas Prices Relief Act of 2026
The bill lowers retail gasoline prices for consumers in the near term while preserving transportation and environmental trust fund receipts via general‑fund transfers — at the cost of higher federal outlays, weakened user-fee funding incentives for transportation over the long term, and compliance/enforcement risks.
Tribal Police Department Parity Act
The bill expands tribal authority and lowers costs for tribal agencies to acquire certain firearms, improving tribal parity with States, while creating modest federal revenue losses and potential complications for unified firearms oversight and cross‑jurisdiction law enforcement coordination.
HOPE (Humans over Private Equity) for Homeownership Act
The bill aims to curb institutional purchases of starter homes and raise revenue by taxing and restricting tax benefits for targeted hedge-fund property owners—potentially improving housing access and tax progressivity—but it raises taxes and cuts deductions that will likely be passed on to investors, employees, and renters while increasing administrative burdens and creating planning uncertainty.
Pay Less at the Pump Act of 2026
The bill lowers costs for refiners and makes trust-fund repayments more predictable, but it eliminates a dedicated Superfund fee—shifting cleanup financing risk to taxpayers, potentially reducing readiness funds, and increasing fiscal pressure on general revenues.
Hearing Protection Act
The bill reduces federal registration and some business-state burdens and raises federal excise revenue—benefiting lawful owners and manufacturers through lower duplication and clearer tax treatment—while substantially weakening federal/state tracing and oversight of silencers, which could heighten public-safety risks and shift costs and regulatory burdens in unpredictable ways.
Clean Competition Act
The bill channels federal funds and market guarantees to accelerate domestic low‑carbon industrial investment and prioritize pollution‑burdened communities, at the expense of higher federal spending, increased costs and financial risk for some firms and consumers, and added administrative complexity.
Less Than Lethal Act
The bill makes certain less‑than‑lethal projectile devices cheaper and easier to buy, sell, and own by removing some taxes and NFA rules, but it increases public‑safety and investigative risks and reduces federal excise revenue while creating new administrative and compliance burdens.
Medicare Investment and Gun Violence Prevention Act
The bill strengthens Medicare Part A solvency and raises federal revenue through a large per-firearm excise tax, trading broader fiscal support for seniors and potential public-safety funding against higher costs for gun buyers, burdens on small firearm businesses and transferors, and added administrative and budgetary impacts.
Fishing Equipment Tax Relief Act of 2025
The bill lowers the excise tax on certain bait containers, reducing costs for manufacturers and potentially consumers, but it cuts federal excise revenue and creates transitional administrative burdens for businesses and tax administrators.
WAGER Act
The bill eliminates the federal excise tax on legally authorized sports wagers, delivering direct tax relief to bettors, operators, and tribes while reducing federal revenue and creating uneven tax treatment and additional administrative complexity.
America's Clean Future Fund Act
The bill channels substantial federal resources and a carbon‑pricing framework to accelerate decarbonization, support clean‑energy jobs, and aid disadvantaged communities, while trading off higher near‑term energy and goods prices, increased federal fiscal exposure and program complexity, and privacy and eligibility tradeoffs that may leave some affected people or industries vulnerable.
Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act of 2025
The bill creates a large, polluter‑financed trust to accelerate climate adaptation and prioritize disadvantaged communities, trading off higher costs and compliance burdens (and increased litigation and implementation complexity) for predictable funding and expanded resilience investments.
Wall Street Tax Act of 2025
The bill increases IRS visibility and provides clearer rules for complex cross-border transactions, but it also creates a new 'transaction tax' and expanded reporting that raise tax liabilities, compliance costs, and administrative burdens for businesses and taxpayers.
REMIT Act
The bill imposes a new excise tax on remittances but creates a refundable credit and reporting requirements so most eligible senders can recover the tax and the IRS can oversee claims — trading higher upfront costs and added provider compliance for stronger documentation and refundability, while risking exclusion of SSN-less or undocumented senders.
Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the temporary increase in limitation on the cover over of distilled spirits taxes to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
The bill continues a targeted tax revenue preference that provides important, near‑term budget relief and business advantages for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, at the cost of reduced federal excise receipts, modest administrative burdens, and perceived unequal treatment compared with the states.
Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the cover over of certain distilled spirits taxes.
The bill channels more distilled‑spirits excise revenue to territorial conservation (boosting environmental funding) at the cost of reduced local fiscal flexibility, potential retroactive disputes, and increased compliance burdens.
Tanning Tax Repeal Act of 2025
The bill would lower costs for tanning salons and their customers by repealing the indoor-tanning excise tax, but it would reduce federal revenue and remove a price-based deterrent to indoor tanning that may modestly increase health risks.
Fueling Alternative Transportation with a Carbon Aviation Tax Act of 2025
The bill raises and indexes aviation fuel taxes to fund targeted air-quality monitoring and transit improvements—especially for disadvantaged communities—creating a dedicated trust fund and near-term refunds for narrow emergency/research uses, but it imposes substantial new fuel costs on noncommercial aviation, risks impacts to rural emergency services, and redirects excise revenues away from existing aviation programs while leaving funded projects subject to annual appropriations.
